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Traditional leaders play many roles in Zimbabwean communities, culture and families. [1] They help to promote and uphold cultural values, [2] facilitate development and resolving of disputes in their communities. The institution of traditional leadership is regulated and monitored within the parameters of the Constitution of Zimbabwe.
The African Leaders' State of Africa Report offered a commentary on politics and policies from the perspective of the individuals shaping those trends. [1] [2] The Report was started in 2003. [3] The goal was to provide a platform for political leaders in Africa to express their views about political developments in the region. [3]
Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies is a graduate-student run, peer-reviewed academic journal published at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It was established by the UCLA African Activist Association in 1970 and named after the Swahili word for comprehension, understanding, or being. [1]
The Africa Leadership Foundation (ALF) (also known as the Africa Leadership Forum) is a not-for-profit organization founded in Nigeria in 1988 by Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo. The primary focus of ALF is to help improve the current quality of leadership in Africa while at the same time helping to train the next generation of leaders for ...
Based on the context of Africanisation propagated by the political thinkers in the 1960s period of decolonisation, ubuntu was used as a term for a specifically African (or Southern African) kind of humanism found in the context of the transition to majority rule in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) was a grassroots anti-apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of the political vacuum created by the jailing and banning of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960. [1]
States and Power in Africa was a co-winner of the 2001 Gregory Luebbert Book Award from the American Political Science Association in comparative politics. [20] It was also a finalist for the 2001 Herskovits Prize awarded by the African Studies Association. [21]
"Economic Policy and the Social Context of Africa’s Development: An Analysis of the Experiences of Nigeria and Botswana," Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa 14, no. 3 (2012): 111–126 "Collision and Rapprochement: The Development of Nigerian-Gabonese Relations, 1960-1990," Journal of International Relations 8, no. 1 (2010): 54–73