Reflection on Leadership Issues and Sustainability of African States

Abstract

A leadership issue in African States has been a significant global concern over the past few decades. It has been identified as a serious constraint to effective leadership and sustainability to African States. This study aims to provide an overview of leadership issues and sustainability of African States, analyzing its problems, characteristics, challenges, and priorities. This study delves into the factors that contribute to the persistence of leadership issues in African States. This includes political instabilities, sophisticated corruption, poor criminal justice system and fragility and weak governance. The study analyzes the dynamics of leadership issues and sustainability of African States. It examines the African priorities for sustainable development such as tourism, gender equality, education and health among others It also explores the challenges of leadership in African States which includes the policy of rewarding friends and punishing foes, nepotism, blurred vision, competition for preeminence, corruption dictatorship, and failure to re-define goals, among others. The study discusses the sustainable development issues as having multiple contexts and often diametrically opposed values, demanding an unprecedented interface between academic research and public policy, and there is no such thing as sustainable development expertise, but rather, and a multiplicity of expertise among others. The study recommends that young people being trained for leadership in Africa should be aware of the above dangers and challenges. They should be encouraged to develop attitudes toward the potential that will keep them away from the pitfalls preventing the full development of their countries.  Others include redefining and repositioning of leadership system and style, and proper political acculturation for youth with fresh and pristine ideations. This study employed Use of historical method of elicitation of data  (both primary and secondary source) and analysis and interpretations at arriving at the reliability of the study.