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Globalisation and Leadership in Africa Developments and Challenges for the Future Okechukwu Ethelbert Amah Globalisation and Leadership in Africa Okechukwu Ethelbert Amah Globalisation and Leadership in Africa Developments and Challenges for the Future Okechukwu Ethelbert Amah Lagos Business School Pan-Atlantic University Lagos, Nigeria ISBN 978-3-319-98763-7 ISBN 978-3-319-98764-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98764-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018954347 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the pub- lisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institu- tional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Melisa Hasan This Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland This book is dedicated to God Almighty and my wife and three children P reface The idea of a book that discusses the topics globalisation and leadership together came out of my participation at the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) organised by the US government for selected young Africans who have the potential to lead in the transformation of leadership in the continent. I was one of the facilitators in the leadership sessions and I listened to all the facilitators as they expounded the concept of leader- ship in its various forms, and also talked about leadership failures in the African continent. Prior to this experience, I knew that there was the debate between the anti-globalists and pro-globalists on whether globali- sation failed in Africa and the likely reasons for its failure. After the semi- nar, I concluded that I needed to write a book that discusses the topics leadership and globalisation together to truly understand what happened in Africa. There are two reasons for writing this book. The first reason is to understand globalisation process in the context of leadership behaviour in Africa from the precolonial era to the postcolonial era. In doing this, I utilised empirical and theoretical information to infer if globalisation actually failed in Africa and the role played by African leaders in such failure. The second reason arose from the existence of current world events that are shaping the new face of globalisation in which emphasis is shifting from world control to regional and sub-regional control. The new face of globalisation will offer opportunities for nations to take their destiny into their hands, and so I argued in this book that Africa cannot vii viii PREFACE achieve meaningful development in the new face of globalisation unless Africa has l eaders who are able and willing to take up the challenge of governance from a servant perspective. Lagos, Nigeria Okechukwu Ethelbert Amah c ontents 1 I ntroduction: Globalisation, Development, and Leadership 1 2 The Origin and Development of Globalisation in the World 11 3 Current World Events That Are Threatening the Globalisation Process 25 4 The New Face of Globalisation 41 5 African Leadership Process in the Development of Globalisation 55 6 The New Face of Globalisation: Effects on Leadership in Africa 75 7 Servant Leadership: A Solution to Leadership Challenges in Africa 91 ix x CONTENTS 8 African Governance Structure: Institutionalizing Servant Leadership Behaviour 105 Index 119 L a ist of cronyms APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation ARC African Risk Capacity ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations AU African Union BBC British Broadcasting Corporation BC Before Christ BRIC Brazil, Russia, India, China CNN Cable News Network EAC East African Community ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States EU European Union FDI Foreign Direct Investment GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GDP Gross Domestic Product HDI Human Development Index IMF International Monetary Fund INEC Independent National Electoral Commission LAS League of Arab States MDC Movement for Democratic Change NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement SADC South African Development Community SAP Structural Adjustment Programme SCT Social Contagion Theory SIT Social Identity Theory UAE United Arab Emirates USA United States of America VBL Value-Based Leadership xi
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