African Leadership: Call for Proposals

 Emerald Publications and Global Leadership Initiatives, Inc are Pleased to Share our Fourth Book Call:

African Leadership: Powerful Paradigms for the 21st Century

Lead Editor: Rob Elkington Ph.D.

Ontario Tech University, Faculty of Education

Trent University, Faculty Master of Management

Stellenbosch University, School of Public Leadership

Managing Editors: Faith Wambura Ngungjiri Ph.D, & Gloria Burgess, Ph.D.

Co-Editors:

Dr. Xoliswa Majola, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa

Dr. John Volmink, Chair Umalusi, South Africa

Dr. Yatunde Oke, Nigeria.

Dr. Heinrich Volmink, South Africa.

Dr. Akin Oke, Nigeria. 

SEEKING Chapters (4000-5000 word)

Deadline for draft abstracts (500 words): 05/30/2021

Chapter finalists notified by the editors by 06/30/2021

Deadline for draft submissions: 02/28/2022

Effective leadership is one of the essential components of thriving nations and organizations in any sector, particularly in the emerging context of the 4^th Industrial Revolution (Bonciu, 2017; Zucconi, 2016). Leadership, though, is a complex construct that defies simple explanations or single approaches (Liu, 2015). We live in a time of considerable uncertainty (Rodriguez & Rodriguez, 2015), with seemingly increasing turbulence and divisions, which require different approaches to leadership (Bernstein, 2014; Lawrence, 2013).

African Leadership: Powerful Paradigms for the 21st Century discusses leadership from vastly different perspectives than Western notions of leadership. This volume considers the geographic and cultural diversity of the African continent (Vickery, 2006), including its history of Colonialism, Apartheid, and corruption (Moyo, 2009), and considers the leadership that has and continues to emerge within this context. For example, there are distinctions of African leadership in paradigms such as Ubuntu (Mukuka, 2013) and Ukama (Le Grange, 2012), suggesting leadership modalities that bring healing to nature, self, and society. Following the review of the history, geography, and philosophies surrounding African leadership, this volume hopes to hold forth exemplars of African leadership in people such as Nelson Mandela (Oppenheim, 2012), Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Sophia Abdi Noor, Alengot Oromait (Africa.com, 2019) Kwame Nkrumah, Senghor, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyere (Meredith, 2011), and many others.

Chapter proposals may consider the following as places to start a conversation:

• African Political Leadership – Lessons from Liminal Contexts: Madiba, Kenyata, Biko, Ellen Sirleaf, etc.
• African Grass Roots Leadership: How to Create Movements through Social Capital and Social Activism. 
• African Health-Care Leadership: Lessons on Innovative Leadership in Resource Deprived Contexts.
• African Leadership in the Diaspora: Diffusion, Infusion, Synergy, and Challenge.
• African Business Leadership: Innovative Entrepreneurship in Challenging Contexts.
• Current contextual issues in African leadership, such as the global pandemic and the ensuing multiplex of crisis in business, governance, and the political economy.

Our aim is that this book will profile the best of African leadership by being academically informed but practitioner focused.

Please confirm your interest by sending an abstract (500 words) via email to: (rob.elkington@ontariotechu.ca) by 05/30/2021.

Finalists will be notified of acceptance shortly after that. Final submissions should be 4000-5000 words and are due 03/30/2022

Proposed Timetable:

References:

Bernstein, L. E. (2014). The perceived importance of vuca-driven skills for 21st century leader success and the extent of integration of those skills into leadership development programs.

Bonciu, F. (2017). The New Characteristics of Globalization and their Impact on the Design of a New International Economic Order. Global Economic Observer, 5(1), 8–15.

Lawrence, K. (2013). Developing Leaders in a Business. UNC Executive Development, 1–15.

Le Grange, L. (2012). Ubuntu, Ukama and the Healing of Nature, Self and Society. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 44(SUPPL.2), 56–67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2011.00795.x

Liu, H. (2015). Leadership: A Critical Text. Organization, 22(6), 944–948. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508414529769

Mukuka, R. (2013). Ubuntu in S. M. Kapwepwe’s Shalapo Canicandala: Insights for Afrocentric Psychology. Journal of Black Studies, 44(2), 137–157. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934713476888

Oppenheim, C. E. (2012). Nelson Mandel and the Power of Ubuntu. Religions, 3, 369–388. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel3020369

Rodriguez, A., & Rodriguez, Y. (2015). Metaphors for today’s leadership: VUCA world, millennial and “Cloud Leaders.” Journal of Management Development, 34(7), 854–866. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMD-09-2013-01

Zucconi, A. (2016). The Need for Person-Centered Education. 3(1), 1–26.

Bernstein, L. E. (2014). The perceived importance of vuca-driven skills for 21st century leader success and the extent of integration of those skills into leadership development programs.

Bonciu, F. (2017). The New Characteristics of Globalization and their Impact on the Design of a New International Economic Order. Global Economic Observer, 5(1), 8–15.

Lawrence, K. (2013). Developing Leaders in a Business. UNC Executive Development, 1–15.

Le Grange, L. (2012). Ubuntu, Ukama and the Healing of Nature, Self and Society. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 44(SUPPL.2), 56–67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2011.00795.x

Liu, H. (2015). Leadership: A Critical Text. Organization, 22(6), 944–948. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508414529769

Mukuka, R. (2013). Ubuntu in S. M. Kapwepwe’s Shalapo Canicandala: Insights for Afrocentric Psychology. Journal of Black Studies, 44(2), 137–157. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934713476888

Oppenheim, C. E. (2012). Nelson Mandel and the Power of Ubuntu. Religions, 3, 369–388. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel3020369

Rodriguez, A., & Rodriguez, Y. (2015). Metaphors for today’s leadership: VUCA world, millennial and “Cloud Leaders.” Journal of Management Development, 34(7), 854–866. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMD-09-2013-01

Zucconi, A. (2016). The Need for Person-Centered Education. 3(1), 1–26.