AFRICA AND LEADERSHIP IN THE WORLD OF CHANGE
The question of African development has always tied to the problem of African leadership in the world of constant change and improvement. The permanence of the world is in its change and the plurality it gives to its inhabitant. There is totally crisis today in Africa because African leaders have not adapted to the reality of changing world. That the world has been in a constant consistent changing chain was a reality confirmed by Heraclitus/Parmenides. The world is permanently undergoing series of change and people are adapting to those changes. African is not totally left out in this state of unending changes, but the difference is the manner in which Africans have adapted this change. African adaptation has always been on white papers and based on recommendations by either United Nations or World Bank. African adaption has not really been on principles of African experiences of reality from an African perspective of the situation. Our change has been a forced change. And this has remained the reason African leadership has not measured up to the global demand of quantities and responsible leadership that will be accountable to its citizens. This paper therefore is a critical examination of the reasons why African leadership has continued to fail or make serious efforts to appraise the African position in the comity of Nations.
Keywords: africa, change, leadership, world