What comes into your mind when you here the
word Leadership? For many, it’s a figure of someone in a top position
privileges, capable of issuing commands and one who stands aloof from the
common man. They imagine of a commander, and the ones being led as subjects.
This, however, is not the case for youths in Nakuru county. Last week the 2nd
of May 2019, we had a great event at the Kenya National Library as our
Art4Leadership Episode II of the year. If you are just reading this blog for
the first time, this is musical concert in which we invite professional
speakers from various spectra of life to inspire youths towards positive social
change. In January, we tackled a topic on Education for peace where our guest
speaker was Mr. Winnie Machila, the Head Teacher at Milimani Primary School.
You can read about the event here: African Dream
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Joseck Addressing Youths |

Nitatenda
mema (I will do what is good)
Nitahesabika
(I’ll stand to be counted)
Eh
Mungu wangu (Oh My God)
Nisaidie
(Help me out)

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Youths participating in the discussion |
Mr. Olala reminded the youths that the constitution gives them a right to public participation, questioning
actions of the elected leaders as well as demanding that they deliver what they
promised. He emphasized that we all must in one accord Say no to PoorLeadership in word and action.
The second speaker, Mr.
Ogutu talked about Servant Leadership. He enlisted qualities of a good leader
as expressed in the image below from his presentation. Of the 7
characteristics, “Self-Awareness” came out as the most critical.
“When you get a position to lead, you give the people a chance
to know you. They can relate with you easily if they have no difficulty
understanding who you are. It becomes a tragedy when you don’t know yourself in
the first place,” He said. From the discussions with the attendees, it became
clear that poor leadership spearheaded by corruption in Africa is an enormous
problem to even think of tackling it. However, they all agreed that it is not
impossible. They pledged to be “bold enough to fight patiently even if we
ourselves don’t live to see the fruits.”
One
of them said, “We have to develop a long-term strategy, not limiting ourselves
to election time periods.” It was Impressive seeing such a discourse led by
youths themselves. Indeed, it is noble to fight for something that will outlive
you. Thank you for taking time to read and hopefully this will spark hope and a
desire for a greater Africa than we have now. To listen to the recorded version of the theme song of
the day click this link.African Dream
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ReplyDeleteI like this read, even if I didn't attend the event it well elaborated here. Keep changing Africa, proud of you
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