**AFRICA'S YOUNG LEADERS FACE A TESTING 2020**

Politicians in their 30s and 40s face huge hurdles in sweeping away decades-old regimes. After several years during which younger leaders have come to power across Africa, 2020 could hold challenges that may force many of the newcomers to take a step back. Not all the young politicians are progressive, or even prodemocracy. Nevertheless, they are all representative of sweeping changes across the continent that have destabilised long-standing regimes and forced out some veteran leaders. The huge numbers of young people reaching adulthood across Africa have fuelled a powerful desire for change and has pushed forward a new wave of younger political figures who could dramatically influence the continent's future.


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chairman of the sovereign council that still holds supreme power.

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• Elsewhere some young leaders who have challenged entrenched interests have stumbled. In South Africa, Mmusi Maimane, a 39-year-old once breathlessly hailed as the Obama of Soweto, resigned as leader of the opposition

• Julius Malema, the 38-year-old leader of the populist, radical leftwing

• In Uganda, Bobi Wine, an opposition MP and popular music star, has generated international attention but is yet to build the kind of political machine that

• Yoweri Museveni, while in Zimbabwe, Nelson Chamisa, a 41-year-old former pastor who has led the Movement for Democratic Change since 2018, has struggled to mobilise sufficient numbers to destabilise the ruling Zanu-PF government under 78-year-old Emmerson Mnangagwa."They have inherited, or are opposing, deep-seated neo-patrimonial systems. You can destabilise them, you can even bring down a leader, but the transitional politics are very,

The young rulers and challengers remain a minority. The average age of African leaders is more than 60, which means that the continent with the youngest citizens

1.How would you describe the leadership styles of the above-mentioned "Politicians

Due to the testing times in 2020, such as the COVID 19, advise the Africa's young leaders on the issues of change management and state the importance of project

2.Which leader/"politician" has principles of African leadership and why?

very difficult and sometimes they just don't work out," said Vines.

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or less predatory than their former rulers. One is Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, a 43-year-old warlord accused of systematic human rights abuses, who has emerged as perhaps the most powerful man in the country. He is now deputy

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has the oldest rulers.

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in their 30s and 40s"?

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would challenge the country's veteran leader.

or less predatory than their former rulers. One is Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, a 43-year-old warlord accused of systematic human rights abuses, who has emerged as perhaps the most powerful man in the country. He is now deputy chairman of the sovereign council that still holds supreme power.


The young rulers and challengers remain a minority. The average age of African leaders is more than 60, which means that the continent with the youngest citizens has the oldest rulers.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/31/ africas-young-leaders-face-a-testing-2020
