This book is a timely guide on what constitutes effective leadership in Africa. It explores how today's leaders in Africa perceive their role, the challenges they experience, and how they operate effectively as leaders. In the era of globalization, there is an increasing need to offer guidance on how leaders can adjust their leadership style to suit situational contexts . This book illustrates to scholars and leaders how leadership can be developed and will contribute to the development of a new community of leaders integrating cutting-edge knowledge on leadership development in Africa.

Eva Jordan's academic background is in both International Land and water Management (MSc) and Intercultural Communication (MA). She has over 25 years' experience in delivering results through supporting leadership and institutional development in Asia, Africa and Europe. She is a strategic program manager with a track record in roles such as international project manager, trainer in global leadership development programs and executive director in commercial companies. She currently works as an independent management consultant, predominantly supporting rural development programs across Africa and Asia. Bettina Ng'weno is Associate Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis, USA. Trained as an anthropologist she works on issues of space, property, race and ethnicity, social justice, citizenship and states within Latin America and Africa. She authored the book Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary State. Helen Spencer-Oatey is Professor at the University of Warwick, UK. Her books, both monographs and edited collections, include Culturally Speaking (2000/2008); Handbook of Intercultural Communication (2008, with Helga Kotthoff); and Intercultural Interaction (2009, with Peter Franklin).