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Courage, Confidence and Compassion: The Leadership Africa Needs

Courage, confidence and compassion — three qualities that, taken together, describe the kind of leadership the continent most needs and most rewards.

Daniel Arendse
Daniel Arendse
·4 min read
African leadership
African leadership — Republic Africa

Courage, confidence and compassion — three qualities that, taken together, describe the kind of leadership the continent most needs and most rewards.

The leaders who endure are those who refuse to choose among them, holding the hard and the humane in the same hand.

A leadership of three

Without courage, confidence is bluster; without compassion, both are merely power.

The leaders worth following are those who can be brave and kind at once.
Daniel Arendse
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Daniel Arendse
Society Writer

Daniel Arendse writes on community, culture and impact across Southern Africa.

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