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- Title
African Personality: An Anthropological Perspective for Leadership Development in Africa.
- Authors
Manobo, Blazio M.
- Abstract
This paper examined the concept of African personality among the Shona people of Zimbabwe in an effort to discover the meaning of 'personhood' from an African perspective and show this understanding relates to the development of leaders, and the promotion of human dignity. Using a qualitative approach, the study conducted in-depth interviews of traditional leaders, government leaders and youth concerning their understanding of the African personality. The study was premised on the understanding that African people have a unified vision of reality in which there is no room for irreducible dichotomies between matter and spirit, religion and daily life, and between body and soul. Results from the survey showed that as much as people cry for the return to the traditional cultural practices, colonialism, religion, global forces present critical resistance. Lessons obtained from the study point towards the need for a normentrepreneurship in order to establish a global person, and that the African personality is relevant as Africa contributes to the establishment of the global person.
- Subjects
LEADERSHIP; SHONA (African people); PERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge); DIGNITY; ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- Publication
Journal of Pan African Studies, 2018, Vol 12, Issue 4, p213
- ISSN
0888-6601
- Publication type
Article