I think we can correct this power drunkenness by supposed leaders from home. It begins wit parents listening also to their children, & hearing them out, & involving them in the decisions around d home. Check the leadership quotient of nations that practice this. Begins at home!

Children learn thru modelling, but for some very few exceptions: positive or negative diversion from that model based on self education or peer pressure. Either way, part of these too can have some link to the home.

I've been in many youth Orchestra, where supposed leaders took it to shine, and gave much grammatical fine lectures on leadership. But if you take time to observe their actions and how it was being carried out, too much arrogance and the need to be seen as the show man!

*Youth organizations

He truth is, we're running from having many conversations here. A lot of our homes, schools and institutions have never truly modelled to us true service based sacrificial leadership.

We always served the "ogas" & they rarely served the followers. Reasons father ate more meat even though the children needed it more for growth! I'm not saying this is wrong. I'm only saying these cues were wiring us for what being an oga entails; enjoy! While others served you.

We complain a lot here about the self serving nature of most of our leaders. But we seem too afraid of hitting home. Our parents weren't wrong. They only modelled what they also learnt. To change things, we must be deliberate abt what it truly means to be a leader thru sacrifice

I stopped attending leadership workshops in Nigeria, after working 4 years in a corporate org we were often "taught" about leadership by the ogas on literally abused us, while we worked our butts out. Order is easy to give out at the top. Connection is what's difficult!

I've taken my time in the last years to not just read and hear rhetorical sermons on leadership, but to observe the leader. So I've seen much discrepancies. In my learning, I saw the home setting most of us are coming, and the environment we've been exposed to. It's affecting us

I've since realized that Africa, and esp Nigeria must influence the game of current leadership style thru parenting, and restructuring the oga-boss things to a creayey space for questioning, feedback. Again, it goes to how we allow d child ask the parents questions & suggestions

The leadership rot here is deep. It's not something some grammar and degree can just resolve. If you don't deliberately take it upon yourself to unlearn & then relearn the kind of styles you've been used to here, you will surprise yourself woefully when you get a big position.