Leadership and Nation Building

Prof. Stephen Adei is richly qualified by his training and professional experience to address this all-important subject. 

According to the author, leadership failure is the bane of the African continent. He opines that the challenge of effective leadership confronts us everyday and even though the obstacles to achieving such may seem formidable, they are not insurmountable. He postulates that it is the quality of leadership in the setting of the national agenda, more than anything else, that has been the most important determinant of the rise or demise of nations. 

He contents, firmly, that “Leadership is cause; everything else is effect” and compares the rapid growth of East and South-East Asian economics with that of Africa. The difference, he says, is the quality of their leadership. 

Prof. Adei, an esteemed former world diplomat, an Administrator, Economist and currently rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration calls for the deliberate training in leadership to cover every sphere of life – nationally, corporately and individually – and suggest that leadership training be made part of the school curriculum.  

 We need more discourses like this to help us understand the reasons behind the underachievement of Africa’s Leadership and how to overcome this deliberating setback.