ALMA is committed to building leaders of integrity who will spearhead the spiritual, social, moral and economic transformation of Africa and the world.
OUR VISION
To maximize Africa’s vast resources by spearheading transformative leadership studies in Africa, setting the pace for leadership practice, providing and developing leaders of integrity in every leadership arena throughout the continent and beyond.
OUR MISSION
To build leaders of integrity who will impact Africa and the world for Christ.
OUR HISTORY
ALMA was born out of a crying need for leaders of integrity to spearhead Africa’s spiritual, social, and moral transformation.
In 1991, Dela Adadevoh, the then Campus Crusade for Christ director, was concerned about leadership development for his organization. He sought to find ways to deal with the situation. This issue was addressed in 1994 at the Pan African Leadership Assembly (PACLA II), which was held in Nairobi, Kenya. Christian leaders from many countries and denominations across Africa came together to discuss issues related to the effectiveness of leadership practice in the African context. Among the questions asked was: What is the greatest need in Africa today? The unanimous answer was:
Leadership!
However, there was a general dissatisfaction among the delegates with many of the perspectives and practices of leadership modelled by Christian leaders. These are the issues that were cited:
A lack of consistency in the understanding of servant leadership as modelled by Jesus.
Little impact on the continent because of ineffective biblical models of Christian leaders as "salt and light".
Many Christian leaders who are not making use of contemporary concepts and resources on leadership.
The Church was not relevantly addressing the issues faced by business leaders.
There was a need for a new paradigm of leadership if Africa was to overcome the challenges it faced. The late Kweku Hutchful who was the PACLA conference coordinator, expanded Mr. Adadevoh’s concern for Christian leadership development, to include Africa. The question asked at that time was the implementation of the challenges of leadership in Africa if we are to move in this new paradigm. This then led to the second question, What are we going to do about it?
The answer to this second question was build institutions across Africa that would train leaders and influencers for every sphere of life in Africa. The pilot project would be in Zimbabwe. That school is the Africa Leadership & Management Academy (ALMA).
