Leadership Civility: Leading in a disrespectful and divisive era is a major challenge facing the world and precisely, our nation today, which can be observed in our work places, religious gatherings, political parties, schools, associations, organisations, etc. While I seek to understand why this is so, it becomes so clear that one major ingredient is missing in this whole things. No doubts, people are hurting and not many are paying attention to see this hurt in the lives of others . Employers make so much demand on the employees, the workers going on strike for not receiving the commensurate rewards for their efforts, parents putting pressure on their wards, lecturers failing their students and being joyful about it, the agberos and overload, the nagging of wives and husbands, etc. When all these are put together, we will wonder and ask, how come? Hurting people have one thing in common - they need to be loved. While it is not clear the true definition of love, yet I find a de...
One of the greatest undoing of the Western culture on the African culture is the freedom of information act that affords each player of the society equal access to information with disregard to age. While the typical African culture believes that the young must be accountable to old and the old accountable to the gods, it becomes imperative to question who these gods are. But on the other, the Western culture supposes that being accountable is something humans should do for themselves. As one of the famous Igbo adages posits, "Ala adịghị mma bụ uru ndị nze." Meaning that a group of people in the society benefits from the disrespectful and divisive nature of the polity of the land, which begs me to ask: Does it mean that youths are being incited to be disrespectful and divisive by some elders who take advantage of the situation or is it just in the nature of these young people to be disrespectful? Come to think of it, who raised these youths to become who they ...