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| Governance and Political Leadership in Africa: Focus on Nigeria @ 59 |
Dr Chukwurah, Daniel Chi Jnr Dr Desmond O Nnamani, Nduba, Johnpaul Onyebuchi
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Abstract:
Governance and leadership in Africa a challenge that has continued to shape the success of policies and programmes aimed at promoting development in the region. The leadership selection process in Africa takes the imposition pattern and African leaders have frequently come to their position with limited experience. The failure in Africa came due to frequent leadership change, lack of ideology, policy reversal and weak institutional patterns in tandem with the caliber of leaders and leadership structures. Despite all efforts in recent years, there is need to address corruption, mass poverty, prevalence diseases, sectional and ethnocentric maneuverings, insecurity, electoral violence, poor intergovernmental relationships, and political interference in decision-making. The vision of Africa is peaceful democratic regions that attract foreign trade and investment, as well utilize thousands of talented Africans and billions of flight capital now in safe havens abroad. The paper explores the ineptitude leadership paradox ranging from personal capacity underdevelopment to social psychology, value deficiencies and misunderstandings that need to be addressed for Africa to be repositioned politically using descriptive analysis from secondary data. The paper observes that for Africa to overcome the crises of leadership and governance in the continent, those on whom the burden of leadership must comprehend their responsibilities, duties and obligation, and face the challenges of leadership in Africa. Since the long term salvation of developing countries depends on the quality of its future leaders. The paper concludes that only leadership that has maximum empathy for people to be relevant in qualitative movement of Africa.
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