LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE AFRICA (LEADIA)

Welcome to the Leadership Development Initiative Africa website!!

Leadia is a grassroots Christian initiative that seeks to Build Local Capacity for Local Solutions to Transform Africa.

We believe that the challenge of Africa is lack of the capacity to master its environment and harness it by utilizing the positive aspects for its people’s betterment as well lack of capacity to influence other people’s behavior to meet the needs of its people.

We believe that the root of Africa's challenge is lack of knowledge of true human self-identity and dignity, and unjust relationships due to biblical, spiritual, theological, ideological, sociological, economic, educational, technological,leadership and civic gaps. The absence of the knowledge of true self-identity and dignity and unjust relationships ferments and nurtures ungodliness and wickedness such as selfishness, greed, pride and envy..., which have created internal and external debilitating and corroding habits, systems and structures that have plagued the continent of Africa. 

We believe that this challenge calls for recovering true human identity, discovering true human dignity and establishing just relationships inspired by communal character of society and societal responsibility under competent leadership  and effective followership. 

Our area of focus includes leadership, community and child development.

Our strategy now is to develop empowering leadership models and effective followership nurtured in a holistic biblical spirituality and worldview, meaningful and engaging relationships that encourage human and material resource development, appropriate acquisition and appropriation of resources, information and technological accessibility, communal and individual involvement in the production and decision- making process, compassion and environmental conservation just to mention a few. At the pinnacle of all these are quality of leadership, communal character of society and societal responsibility (effective followership) and, communal foundation and vision for the young generation.

The question here is not how to change individuals or communities but rather a generation to bring people back to God’s forward moving arena of human transformation. Our conviction is that, the foundation of the transformation of Africa dedpends upon the quality of its leaders, community and children. The task here is how to make and put "new wine in a new wine skin".

A project of this magnitude demands a proactive, collaborative and holistic approach, and commitment of enormous resources to succeed. Therefore, we appeal for your support and feedback to transform Africa.

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