Our publications

Selected publications from the African Leadership Centre:

Transcending the State–Market Dichotomy, Developmentalism and Industrial Change: Learning from Critical African Scholars

Introduction: reframing narratives of peace-building and state-building in Africa

Women’s overlooked contribution to Rwanda’s state-building conversations

Beyond liberal institution (re)building: conversations on peacebuilding and statebuilding in Sierra Leone

IRN0027 - Evidence submitted to the UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee on Implementing the Integrated Review in Nigeria

Africa Fashion Futures: creative economies, global networks and local development

Post-genocide identity politics and colonial durabilities in Rwanda

Why do youth participate in violence in Africa? A review of evidence

Bringing the ‘International’ into Discourses on Developmental Statehood in Ethiopia

Thinking about developmental statehood, manufacturing and international capital: the case of Ethiopia

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Journal of Leadership and Developing Societies

The African Leadership Centre (ALC) established the academic peer-reviewed journal, Journal of Leadership and Developing Societies, in 2016, which motivates original thinking and high-quality analysis on the interaction between leadership and the security-development nexus with a global focus on the developing world.

The journal fills an important gap by examining leadership as a distinctive aspect of security and development processes and not simply as a by-product of institution building. It provides empirically grounded analysis of the interactions between security and development; and bridges the theory and practice of leadership in developing societies.