In search of an appropriate leadership ethos: a survey of selected publications that shaped the Black Theology movement

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2010

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University of the Western Cape

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The understanding and practice of leadership in Sub-Saharan Africa, in all spheres, is at the heart beat of this work. Questions and concerns over the quality of leadership in most countries in this particular region are reasons which have led to revisit and investigate the formative training of the current cohort of African leadership with a special focus on the ethical aspect of leadership. It is an assumption, in this thesis, that the contemporary cohort of African leadership received their formative training especially in the 1960s and 1970s and that they were deeply influenced by the black consciousness movement and, in association with that, by the emergence of black theology. In this respect, this research project explores the notions of ethics and leadership with a view to determine ways in which an appropriate leadership ethos was portrayed and articulated in the writings of selected exponents of the black theology movement, namely ML King (Jr), Desmond Tutu and Allan Boesak. The purpose of this work is therefore mainly descriptive: to map discourse on a leadership ethos in the context especially of black theology.

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Magister Theologiae - MTh

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Black consciousness, Black theology, Ethos, Ethical Leadership Project, Leadership, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tutu, DM, Boesak, AA, Burns, JM, King, ML (Jr), Rost, JC

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