Are leadership and diplomacy about transformation or transfiguration?
Given the recent diplomatic engagements of the Namibian Head of State, President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, with her counterparts in Ghana and Tanzania respectively, at first glance, the question we posed in our headline seems to be simple.
Paul T. Shipale (with inputs by Folito Nghitongovali Diawara Gaspar)
The fundamental question of leadership
Given the recent diplomatic engagements of the Namibian Head of State, President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, with her counterparts in Ghana and Tanzania respectively, at first glance, the question we posed in our headline seems to be simple.
Yet, its deeper paradox is that it asks us, before anything else, to question the assumptions behind the two concepts advanced herein.
As such, our head question offers not merely a privilege or a responsibility to seek for an answer, but a rare opportunity to engage with a more fundamental question:
What type of leadership is being exercised? Is it a leadership of transformation or a leadership of transfiguration?
