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Followership Laboratory-FLAB an institution at the University of Ilorin in collaboration with with Pan Africana Strategic and Policy Research Group- PANAFSTRAG, is organising a virtual conference tagged “Followership International Conference with the theme: Skilled Followership or Follower-SHEEP: Interrogating the other side of Accountability in Leadership”.
The conference is scheduled to ho ll d between March 26 and 27.
Details below:
CALL FOR PAPERS ON FOLLOWERSHIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE -[Virtual]
Theme: Skilled Followership or Follower-SHEEP:
Interrogating the Other Side of Accountability in Leadership
DATES: MARCH 26 AND 27 2025
CONCEPT NOTE
It is usual for both African and Western Academics to blame African political leaders for inability to provide African solutions to African problems. Such positions often overlook the view that leaders are made not born. Nor do leaders drop from the sky or emerge from the oceans to lead followers. In short, leaders come out from among followers who select or accept such leaders to provide leadership.
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Therefore, academic and private leadership research institutes, programmes and events are flourishing worldwide including on our continent in the past six decades with focus primarily on leadership traits, leadership effectiveness, and the social-psychological factors or contexts responsible for the emergence of leadership.
While few recent studies have managed to focus on the critical relationship between leadership and followership, such studies rarely paid attention on followership.
This inaugural conference is to establish Followership Studies at the same level with leadership studies.
The establishment of a FOLLOWERSHIP LAB (FLAB) at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria in collaboration with PanAfricana Strategic and Policy Research Group (PANAFSTRAG) and Empowered Newswire, an independent private news agency based in Abuja & New York is the beginning of a sustained effort to redirect attention to the critical element of followership, its dynamics and roles in determining a group’s effort towards goal attainment. This focus is designed to critically assess the role and dynamics of followership, with a focus on how it determines a group’s success or failures. It also seeks to focus on what can be done to develop and sustain a critical, engaged, responsible and effective followership that can hold leadership to account.
As expected, this Inaugural Conference brings together scholars, activists, business persons, clerics and volunteers who desire a change in Africa and beyond to interrogate the theory, dynamics and praxis of followership in Africa.
It aims to discuss the various dimensions, typologies, styles, dynamics, and roles of followership with a special focus on the African context.
Sub-Themes:
*Theories and Approaches to the Study of Followership
*Historical, Cultural, and Situational Dynamics of Followership
*Typologies of Followership in Africa: Contexts and the Nexus Between Leadership and Followership in Africa
*Studies on Followership in Small and Large Scale African Social and Political Organizations (Traditional institutions, Religious, Academic and Business Organizations)
*Following in Public and Private Organizations and Contexts.
*Power Dynamics Within Followerships
Crises and its Impact on Followership
*The Role of Emotional Intelligence in the Emergence and Sustenance of Followership
*Followership, Diversity, Equity, and Exclusionary/ Inclusionary Processes
*The Impact of Technology on Followership
*The Ethics of Followership
*Followership for Education and Development
*The Intersection of Followership and Leadership Development
*Followership and Multiculturalism
*Followership in Global Institutions (UN, AU, ECOWAS and other International Organizations)
Conference Chairman:
Mr. Laolu Akande,
Founder, Empowered Newswire & Host INSIDE SOURCES – Channels TV
Keynote Speaker:
Prof Adedoyin Omede
Professor of Political Science and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Kwara State Nigeria and Director of the Followership LAB.
Conference Details:
• Dates: Tuesday, 26th-Wednesday 27th March 2025
• Venue: Virtual
– Abstracts: Deadlines 2nd November, 2024
– Acceptance: 10th November
– Full Papers: 15th January,2025
Send your abstracts of not more than 300 words to followershipconference2025@gmail.com
For More Information: Contact to
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Prof Mohammad J. Kuna- 09060001756
Laolu Akande -08143235428
Dr Kamal Lamidi -08143235428
Mirian Ngozi Alike PhD – 08069253940
Online PUBLICATIONS of Papers for a fee with
Information on approval of abstract
CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION will be available free to participants. However, there would be a fee for delivery & courier services.
