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- Perspectives on Thought Leadership for Africa's Renewal
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Africa Institute of South Africa
summary
This book outlines perspectives of emerging and established African scholars on what one could describe as the debate on leadership and the articulation of the life of the mind in Africaís socio-economic, political and cultural life from the time of independence to date. The papers contained in the book cover the following thematic areas: Alternative Leadership Paradigm for Africaís Advancement; African Perspectives on Globalisation and international relations; Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance; Scientific, Technological and Cultural Dimensions of African Development. The first section deals with alternative leadership paradigms for Africaís advancement. It also debates the ëthin lineí separating management studies from leadership studies and untangles the hermeneutic complexities in the term ëleadershipí. Section two examines among other things, the crucial challenge of globalisation and public ethics and others African perspectives. The section also interrogates the current complexities and credibility deficits in the global governance of trade and towards the end engages philosophical questions about conscience and consciousness in African development and progress. The debates in section three continue to section four and focus on the overall issues of language and liberation, the significance of Multi-, Interand Trans-Disciplinary Approaches in the analysis of the African continent, appropriate indigenous paradigms for promoting the African renaissance as well as a series of debates on the meaning and prospects of regional integration in Africaís renewal. This provides just a snapshot of a very wide ranging and interesting debate contained in the publication.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- p. i
- Speeches
- Statement by Principal and Vice Chancellor of Unisa, N Barney Pityana
- List of Contributors
- pp. xv-xxiv
- PART I
- PART II - Thematic Papers
- PART III
- Back Cover
- p. 691
Additional Information
ISBN
9780798304559
Related ISBN(s)
9780798304528
MARC Record
OCLC
899266883
Pages
724
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No