[PHILOS-L] Leadership Ethics Africa (LEA:RN) - Inaugural Online Workshop - 17th July 2024

[Jamie Dow]

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You are warmly invited to the inaugural (online) workshop of Leadership Ethics Africa: Research Network.

The LEA:RN network and its inaugural workshop are focused on two broad sets of concerns:

1. What would African accounts of the ethics of leadership look like, and how would they differ from mainstream accounts?
2. How can we explain why leadership is so poor across contemporary Africa south of the Sahara?  

Africa south of the Sahara offers rich communitarian ethical traditions that could ground accounts of how leadership should be exercised, i.e. of Leadership Ethics, to rival or complement dominant Western counterparts. What would these look like, and how plausible are they? Conversely, the continent is plagued by poor leadership. Why? Does this undermine the credibility of African ethical traditions on the subject of leadership? Or does this so-called 'leadership crisis' show the urgency of the need to re-discover African models of ethical leadership, as the antidote to these ills?

The workshop will explore the distinctive ethical challenges for leadership in Africa, and the resources from three representative areas of African thought to address them. These traditions are (1) the communitarian / 'Ubuntu' traditions; (2) virtue-based traditions such as Nigerian / West African traditions around concepts such as 'Omoluabi'; and (3) African feminist traditions.   Register here.

Speakers:

• Lindokukle Gama (Rhodes University)
• Abosede Ipadeola (The New Institute, Hamburg)
• Motsamai Molefe (University of South Africa)
• Pedro Tabensky (Rhodes University)

Programme:

SESSION 1

10.00-10.10 Welcome - Amari Esther Chimakonam (Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa, University of Fort Hare, South Africa)

10.10-10.50 Challenges - Pedro Tabensky (Rhodes University)

What are the nature and sources of the difficulties that prevent ethical leadership, particularly in Africa? What challenges does this pose for using African ethical traditions to develop alternative conceptions of good leadership.

10.50-11.00 Short Break (10 mins)

11.00-11.40 African Resources 1 - Motsamai Molefe (University of South Africa).

AFRICAN COMMUNITARIAN / 'UBUNTU' PERSPECTIVES relevant to leadership.

11.40-12.00 Break (20 mins)

SESSION 2

12.00-12.40 African Resources 2 - Abosede Ipadeola (The New Institute, Hamburg).

WEST-AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES – OMOLUABI – applied to leadership.

12.40-13.20 Break (40 mins)

SESSION 3

13.20-14.00 African Resources 3 - Lindokukle Gama (Rhodes University)

AFRICAN FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES – including (e.g.) gender dimensions to the leadership crisis, leadership and gender roles, leadership within the family.

14.00-14.10 Short Break (10 mins)

14.10-14.40 The Way Forward - a shorter open session on what are our best next steps as a group.

Chair: Jamie Dow (University of Leeds)

Times below in Central African Time. (BST is 1 hour earlier: 9.00-13.40)

Online platform: Zoom.

Register here. Zoom details will be sent at least 1 or 2 days in advance of the workshop.

Any updates will be posted on the Leadership Ethics Africa: Research Network (LEA:RN) website, and circulated to registered participants:

https://leadershipethics.africa 

Best wishes, 

Jamie Dow

 

Jamie Dow

Associate Professor and Director of Research & Innovation -- Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied (IDEA) Centre; Director of Postgraduate Research Studies, and Internationalisation Lead – School of PRHS,

 

School of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science (PRHS)

University of Leeds

Tel: +44 113 343 7887

Email: J....@leeds.ac.uk

Web: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/ethics/staff/719/dr-jamie-dow

http://sullogismos.wordpress.com (White Rose Ancient Philosophy)

https://leadingminds.uk (Leading Minds Research Project)

 

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[Jamie Dow]

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Final reminder to register for this, so we can send you the Zoom link for participating.

Looking forward to it next week.

Best wishes, Jamie