Leadership Beyond Instruction
Leadership development in Africa cannot rely on instructional transfer alone. Our 2021 article in The Griot — "Critical Educative Entertainment for Effective Leadership Development of African Youths" — argues that educative entertainment, grounded in critical theory, can cultivate reflective agency and civic responsibility among young people.
From Entertainment to Emancipation
Entertainment education is often framed as a behaviour-change tool. A critical emancipatory approach goes further: it invites educators and audiences to interrogate power, difference, and knowledge — so that learning becomes sustainable and self-appropriated rather than imposed.
- Critical thinking as a foundation for autonomous leadership
- Educative entertainment as a culturally resonant pedagogy
- Youth agency as the measure of educational impact
"Critical thinking enables wholesome educational impact for intellectual, behavioural, and social change — across personal, community, and international development." — Assoc. Prof. Caroline Emeka-Ogbonna
Looking Forward
Through the Centre for Critical Thinking, Teaching and Learning at the Nigerian Defence Academy, we continue to develop curricula and facilitator programmes that put critical thinking at the heart of higher education and leadership formation.
