Family and Sustainable Leadership Structures: Lessons from Field Research with FID

by Ngang Godswill | Oct 3, 2025 | Governance and Leadership

Contemporary leadership and governance structures are often conceptualised through well-articulated frameworks—rules, regulations, metrics, and accountability channels—designed to ensure transparency, responsibility, and legitimacy. Such arrangements are central to the normative architecture of modern democracy and the nation-state. Yet, despite these sophisticated designs, many postcolonial states, particularly in the Global South, remain plagued by weak institutions, unstable leadership, civil wars, and recurrent governance crises.