Women and leadership in West Africa : mothering the nation and humanizing the state
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Steady Filomina Chioma ;
- Editeurs : New York Palgrave Macmillan ;
- Date d'édition : Cop. 2011
- ISBN : 978-0-230-33812-8, 0-230-33812-7
- Sujets : Leadership féminin -- Afrique occidentale, Femmes et politique, Guinée -- Politique et gouvernement, Liberia, Sierra Leone
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-267 p.), : Ill., couv. ill. en coul., 23cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Bibliogr. (p. 251-261). Index
Résumé
Women and Leadership in West Africa explores factors that give rise to different types of female leadership in West Africa, with in-depth study in the Mano River Union countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. These countries have directly or indirectly experienced civil wars for more than a decade in recent years. This book presents a compelling indigenous theoretical framework for understanding female leadership. It offers an alternative to male-dominated and politically-inspired authoritarian and war-prone leadership. It also provides a powerful narrative for humanizing the state. The book's distinctive quality is its use of an indigenous model which showcases women's own words, theories, and perspectives