Selected Readings - Transforming Communities through Leadership Development
A Pan-African Example
Richard Bolden
Philip Kirk
In this paper, the authors reflect on their experiences with researching a pan-African leadership development initiative to explore the manner in which individuals can be encouraged to use their learning to facilitate social change within their communities.
They identify a number of levels at which the programme seems to be having an impact (self, family, work, community and society) and argue that this encourages participants to reconsider and debate their sense of identity, to engage in collaborative action with those around them, and to facilitate a process of social construction that helps redefine community values and purpose.
