Exploring the concept of African Spiritual Consciousness

Abstract

Current leadership literature on leadership development does not sufficiently embrace ASC. This gap poses a challenge to the facilitation of identity and potential realisation for leaders in the complex Southern African leadership context. The study employed a modernist qualitative methodology and constructivist paradigm as its research approach. A case study was used as a research strategy and a life history as a research technique. Purposeful sampling was employed in finding a storyteller and data was collected using solicited and unsolicited sources. The study yielded a life history with a rich and varied description of how an African person experience of leadership mastery. An analysis of the collected data revealed themes that can inform leadership development with insights from an African experience and understanding of leadership mastery. The conclusions of the study raise awareness on the particular themes for consideration from the African Spiritual Consciousness perspective and necessitate a further inquiry into the leadership development within the African context. The study provides some understanding of how an African person understands and experiences leadership mastery. The worldview of local Africans is not asking materialistic questions nor support capitalism spontaneously.