In the face of current events in the global community, Africa cannot afford to lag-behind in pursuing a meaningful sustainableuddevelopment in all strata. The current crisis of relevance of the African societies in the comity of nations is traceable to theudobvious poverty, under development, irresponsive and irresponsible governance, illegitimate political administrations,udprolonged military administrations, martial social and economic systems, repressive policies, and etc. This paper employedudqualitative method of research dwelling on the use of secondary data, analyzed through the method of content and descriptiveudanalysis. From the secondary data gathered and analyzed, it was discovered that the dilemma of the African societies is theudabsence of public spirited leadership which these writers preferred to refer to as Ethical Political Leadership. A society eitherudrises or falls depending on the kind of leadership within its system. This paper therefore concluded that Africa needs this styleudof leadership that is first and foremost people-oriented. The absence of this has been the bane of any meaningful developmentudin Africa. If we must develop and transverse this level of living at the mercy of the international organizations and almostudabsolute reliance on development assistance, African political leaders must rise to the responsibility of engendering a socialudsystem that will reduce corruption in both public and private spheres, and must also get involved in outright formulation andudimplementation of policies that will enhance the self-realization of the African citizens. Above all, this paper recommends theudneed for moral education in Africa.
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