Abstract
Transactional leadership ensures an unhealthy/antagonistic leader-follower relationship. Most African governments are personal ruler ship, military dictatorship or fragile democracies. The ‘will’ of the people and ultimate sovereignty of the people have become a myth. The transactional leader turns his entire state into a machine for his own profit and that of a few friends, His thoughts lack objectivity and intellectual rig our at critical moments and incline his fledgling state to disorderly growth and mental deficiency. This sophistication of criminality and production of aggressive millineries is sustained because Africa has a very high rate of illiteracy of about 80%. They live in the rural areas, engage in subsistence farming, petty trading and local handcraft and picking of minerals on the ground. Its rudimentary background in science and technology produces an uneven process in its participation in Economic globalization. This fosters a structure of dependence of African nations on the industrial nations. This can only be overcome by a qualitative change in their internal structures and external relations, “like investing in a healthy well-fed literate population” and development of indigenous technology advancement. Unfortunately the people are considered as victims or even opponents of Government. The paper advocates for transformational leadership in all global states like Christ-Apostle transformational partnership uplifting “servants” to “Friends” of God the Father (John, 15:15). Common humanity will begin to enjoy a progressive partnership from leader-follower, follower-leader through feedback process to moral exemplar-upcoming leaders in designs environment that demands innovation and promotes entrepreneurial activity for the prosperity of all mankind.
Highlights
Africa was like a wild desert punctuated by pockets of people who were living or in reality having mere existence
James MacGregor Bums writes, “The object in these cases is not a joint effort for persons with common aims acting for the collective interests of followers but a bargain to aid the individual interests of persons or groups going their separate ways” [32]
In transformational leadership at the end of the partnership the leader and follower may technically go home, but they stay engaged in enduring partnership nourished by the community ethos
Summary
Africa was like a wild desert punctuated by pockets of people who were living or in reality having mere existence. Superior military strength and means of transportation as well as new religion and western education accompanied them to the undefined territory of the world (Wallertein) they gave these isolated small tribal units long-run outcomes forming them into colonies and assigning them respectively to various European countries for governance and development [4]. This arrangement was the partitioning of Africa as colonies of Britain, France Portugal and others. Entrepreneurs develop personal and political contacts with the government official, start new industries and found individual business empires which inhibit the growth of fresh entrepreneurship
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