Rwandan President Paul Kagame delivered the keynote address on the first day of the Promise of Leadership Dialogue
March 26, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation and South Africa: The Good News are producing a coffee-table book about the recent Promise of Leadership Dialogue, held in Johannesburg on March 20 and March 21, 2009.
The book seeks not just to capture the essence of the dialogue, but also to further the discussions by incorporating original writing by those who attended and by other thought leaders on the various session topics.
The Promise of Leadership Dialogue brought a variety of leaders together to exchange ideas about the role of leadership in meeting Africa’s challenges.
“The book will capture the discussions and thinking of the dialogue, and function as a vehicle to carry these exchanges to a larger audience and hopefully start other discussions around the issue of value based leadership in Africa,” said Mothomang Diaho, head of the Dialogue Programme at the Foundation.
The hardcover book will contain six chapters from 20 authors, as well as portraits of the dialogue speakers and other related resources, in about 180 beautifully designed pages.
“It is a great honour to work with the Foundation because of what it and Nelson Mandela represent,” said Lindy Mtongana, a project manager from the organisation South Africa: The Good News. “It ties into what we, South Africa: The Good News, want to do. In the making of our last book, Africa: The Good News, we saw that a lot of the achievements we were reporting came as a result of good leadership in government or the private sector.
“This book will be a lasting resource about the dialogue and the stories of people changing Africa, changing the world around them. It will go way beyond the dialogue, including case studies and stories of people from all over the continent” said Mtongana.
The book will be completed and available to the public in July 2009.