From dirty politics to servant leadership

Last week, as part of my fellowship in the United States, we visited the Carter Centre. Housed adjacent to the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum, the Centre was founded in 1982 and has the mission of waging peace, fighting disease and building hope.

As we were touring the impressive centre, there was a running joke, mostly tongue in cheek, between the majority of us who were Africans. It was that while some former presidents left a legacy of peace and fighting injustice, most African presidents left in their wake writs from all the corrupt and unethical practices they had carried out while occupying office.