Paper presented at the 16th Annual International Leadership Association Conference October 30 – November 2, 2014 / San Diego California Baba G. Jallow, Creighton University, [email protected] Some scholars de-contextualize Africa’s leadership and developmental crises by attributing them to the mistaken and untested assumption that Western theories and styles of leadership are not appropriate for African and other non-Western cultures. Geert Hofstede (1993) has argued that Western theories and styles of leadership are not appropriate for non-Western cultures. Hofstede claims that this is so because leadership studies theorists grew up in particular environments that inevitably limit the applicability and…
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‘Burkina Faso crisis: African leaders in army handover talks’ The presidents of Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal are visiting Burkina Faso to press the military for a speedy handover of power to a civilian ruler. The African Union (AU) says the army acted unconstitutionally when it took over after President Blaise Compaore was forced to resign on Friday.The AU on Monday gave the army a two-week deadline. Interim leader Lt Col Isaac Zida later promised to comply.Mr Compaore quit after mass protests at his bid to extend his 27-year rule. ‘Quick transition’ Col Zida met Senegalese President Macky Sall, Goodluck Jonathan of…
Five young Gambians supposedly APRC Green Boys needlessly lost their lives over the weekend in a tragic automobile accident. The incident involving an ARPC pick up truck loaded with supporters was reportedly traveling at an exuberant speed to join President Jammeh and his entourage up country. The driver of the pick up truck lost controlled of the vehicle in the Central River region near the Sofa Nyama/Pakaliba bridge, which somersaulted several times before killing several passengers. Eye witnesses to the accident said that the vehicle involved was a double carbin pickup truck carrying 13 APRC militants. Two people…
Gambia’s State House Imam turned political propagandist for President Jammeh Imam Abdoulie Fatty has been fired from his political appointment as a State House Imam. The controversial Imam reportedly was fired after making divisive comments about the Amadiyaa Muslim community in the Gambia. Imam Fatty was on record in an interview with the Standard Newspaper calling for the expulsion of the Amadima Muslim Jamas calling them non Muslims. It is worth noting that the Ahmadiyaa movement has been present in the Gambia since Independence. The Imam’s controversial message landed him in hot soup and his dismissal was announced over…
By Mathew K Jallow “Smiling Coast of West Africa” is the first welcoming characterization that headlines every tourist brochure; the intersection of happy, cheerful and sun-drenched sandy beaches that snake the might Atlantic Ocean coastline as far as the eye can see. But this was Gambia then. Today, it is almost like a journey back in time to the mysterious Aztec civilization and back again to the chilling silence on Pyongyang’s wide empty boulevards. In between, the insignificance of time space is evident in the way in which the Aztec’s human sacrifice has been fused with North Korea’s murderous art…
On the International Day to End Impunity, 26 African and international organisations have written to the Director General of the Gambia intelligence agency to raise concerns about the case of Abdoulie John and call for the return of his passport and to allow him travel safely in the Gambia. Read the letter to the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency in English and French by clicking in the link below. Mr Yankoba Badjie Director General of the National Intelligence Agency The Gambia Dakar, 2 November 2014 Re: Concerns about Abdoulie John’s case Dear Mr Badjie, We write to…
Two United Nations special rapporteurs will visit The Gambia next week to investigate human rights issues and examine whether the country’s laws are in conformity with international standards. The initial visit of the special rapporteurs on extrajudicial, arbitrary executions; and on torture and other cruel, inhuman treatment, scheduled for August 2014, was annulled one week before the visit by the government, which proposed that the visit be delayed until next year. However, according to a press release received Thursday from the UN Human Rights Office in Geneva, Switzerland, the Gambia government has now accepted the visit of the UN…
Gainako has been closely monitoring the report of Gambian diplomats alleged involvement in a £5 million scandal selling tobacco products using their diplomatic credentials. We closely studied the case in other to understand the negative impact on the Gambia’s diplomatic relationship and how wide spread such schemes are within Gambian diplomatic circles around the world. Our investigation and conversation with former diplomats quickly revealed that the case is not an isolated incident. In fact, one former diplomat drew our attention to look at the general situation of governing in the Gambia and how people might be tempted…
‘Let All Midget Dictators be warned of the impending Revolution’ By: Kaba Sallah This Revolution will not be televised on GRTS, nor will it be announced on the Daily Observer, or celebrated at Kanilai, but the good people of Gambia will expel wannabe King, Dictator Yaya Jammeh and his minions sooner than they would like to believe. When the people storm Kanilai and Banjul, our own Queen, Marie Antoinette, a.k.a Zainab Suma Jammeh, will be offering Tapa Lapa bread to the hungry natives, to pacify them– us Gambians – since she has never shared our suffering, or shared our values.…
UAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — An army general took power in Burkina Faso Friday after President Blaise Compaore stepped down, ending his 27 year rule of the West African country. Army Gen. Honore Traore, the joint chief of staff, has assumed power, state radio announced. Compaore was forced out of office by a burst of violent protests in which parliament was set ablaze. The protesters refused to accept anything short of Compaore’s immediate resignation. Opposition protesters gathered in a square in the capital burst into cheers when they heard the announcement of Compaore’s resignation on hand-held radios. They had…