When I first said that I was going to write a book about African leadership quite a few people responded positively. It was a joke to them and that the book was going to be one of Africa's shortest books to be ever written. I realized that most of them weren't concerned about what was to be inside the book but rather the great English cooking. "English cooking" as they would say the manner in which the exclusionary nature of this language is used in knowledge production to separates us. At that moment I couldn't care because my hope is to see Africa as the new frontier for growth hope and rising to become the hottest frontier because Africa is utterly lacking in the kind of visionary upstanding and courageous leaders who are capable of meeting the increasingly complex challenges the continent is facing while serving as an inspiration to their people. When we talk about African leadership we see that the continent's past reveals more fragments of democracy than you would think. It's more like a puzzle that connects the past with the present status quo.