Young Africa needs change; the opportunity to change the odds. Transformative leadership offers a framework to empower change and just solutions through action with an ethical purpose. For the next five days, I am in Zanzibar to participate in the transformative leadership symposium, which includes a panel on reimagining the African university in the 21st century.
Some early questions and comments: There is a lot of data; but how to move from data to action? How do we overcome the silence on the political discourse and the pushback from political actors? We need to make sure not to loose sight of the large goal and the 'whole'.
If we don't know what we are aiming for, how will we ever get there? We have to set an 'utopia' for us in order to be able to have a common direction.
In the picture we see Prof Sharlene Swartz presenting at the first session; Prof Crain Soudien who was chairing the session; Dr James Otieno Jowi from the Education Department of the East African Community, and Ms Rahab Wawuri a MasterCard Foundation Scholar alumni.
