Complexity and leadership crisis in Africa

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a leadership crisis in Africa with the view to suggested new model that help overcome the leadership gap. Design/methodology/approach – This paper adopt the complexity leadership approach to explicate the leadership crisis in Africa. Findings – This paper suggested that the use of complexity leadership model of enabling leadership to better understand the complex leadership crisis. Research limitations/implications – The application of the leadership enables an appreciation of contemporary leadership realities. Originality/value – This paper adopting complexity leadership is novel and helps to fill the gap in understanding of present leadership crisis.