This article discusses Lisa B. Ncube’s essay entitled: Ubuntu: A Transformative leadership philosophy which appeared in the Journal of Leadership Studies (2010) Volume 4, Issue Number 3 from page 77 to page 82. In this essay Ncube argues that most of the problems bedeviling Africa today are a result of lack of good leadership. She, therefore, argues for ubuntu as the panacea to Africa’s problem...

national settings was higher than they expected, the novels were “culturally generic with the characters’ ethnicity used only for descriptive purposes rather than functioning to depict insights about the culture or cultural practice” (p. 566). Like Cart (2010), Koss and Teale (2009) found that “the majority of international countries and characters portrayed were white and European” (p. 569). T...

Most postcolonial African writers choose English as the language of their literary works for the reason of wider audience reception but come to indigenize it to decolonize the colonial tool, i.e. colonial language. The translinguistic process of relexification means subverting colonial cultural imperialism and colonial linguistic imposition through the dialogic interaction opened in the w...

This article discusses the historical role of Islam in the political evolution of Guinea in the broader context of Muslims’ experience of nation/state building and globalization in Africa. This role is examined on the premise that Islam is one of the major globalizing forces (more in the body of the paper on this idea of Islam as a globalizing force) responsible for the formation of what expert...

The Nigerian Middle Belt is the epicentre of violent conflicts between Fulani herders and sedentary farmers over land agricultural resources called eco-violence; existing research has not adequately addressed persistence these conflicts. Using Social Representations Theory (SRT), this paper examines empirical case studies conducted in April 2018 May 2022 Benue State, Nigeria, to determine why p...

Around the world, colonial and post-colonial practices have systematically harmed Indigenous peoples’ identities, knowledges, value systems, environments, relationships (Moore & Nesterova, 2020...