TRADITIONAL LEADERSHIP IN AFRICAN COMMUNITIES

About Course
This course will make a detail examination of the history and the models of traditional African leadership. Literature, observations and intellectuals discussions on various traditional and modern leadership in Africa will be discussed. The differences between traditional and modern leadership in African communities will be discussed in detail. The basic terms and concepts of discussion will be the comprehension of the concepts of power and authority in traditional Africa communities. Distinctions between traditional and modern democratic leadership and challenges, the types of legitimacy and functions performed by both types of leadership, the ways of gaining power and authority, the traditional political institutions, and decision-making mechanisms, contemporary relations of patron-client type of leadership, different forms of political systems, regimes, and government in traditional Sub-Saharan Africa will be discussed.
The course will also examine the conditions of current African state institutions, building democracy and power-sharing formula in Sub-Saharan African societies. Same will be the role of theocratic leadership and the civil society organisations. Finally, the course will look at the correlation between the types and efficiency of leadership and current global development concepts.
What Will You Learn?
- At the end of studying this course, students will be able to:
- Analyse the historical development and models of African traditional leadership and identify the current gaps.
- Distinctions between traditional African leadership and modern democratic leadership considering the types of legitimacy and functions, the manner of gaining power, decision-making mechanisms and challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Analyse the critical importance of traditional African leadership in the modern socio-cultural, political, ecological and economic lives of communities in Africa.
- Identify the functions of current African state institutions in building democracy and the ardent role of theocratic leadership.
- Describe the link between the efficiency of African traditional leaderships and current global development.
- As part of examination, students will be given the chance to write a ten page essay to address issues related to specific topics of discussion and in relation to traditional or modern leadership in Sub-Saharan Africa, using critical analysis, and their independent views.
Course Content
Lesson 1
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Lesson 4
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Lesson 5
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Lesson 6
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Lesson 7
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Lesson 8
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Lesson 9
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Lesson 10
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Lesson 11
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Lesson 12
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Lesson 13
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Lesson 14
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Lesson 15
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Lesson 16
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Lesson 17
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Lesson 18
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