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Published writing by Dr Vongai Nyahunzvi on leadership, strategy, governance, power, institutions and the questions shaping our work.
Published writing
Perspectives, research and practice notes
Each piece opens on the platform where it was originally published.
Perspective / Medium
A Framework Travels Further Than Its Understanding
What our most trusted frameworks can actually perceive, and what they quietly leave outside the frame.
Read the piecePerspective / Medium
Ubuntu as Institutional Science
Why capacity gaps diagnosed from outside keep producing training that does not embed, and what a relational reading offers instead.
Read the piecePerspective / Medium
The Problem Beneath the Problem
Reading the conditions that hold a presenting problem in place before designing a response.
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The Fragmentation Crisis
How fragmented mandates, measures and incentives quietly undo institutional intent.
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They Were Taught That Their Answer Does Not Count
On authority, voice and who is treated as a legitimate source of knowledge inside institutions.
Read the piecePerspective / Medium
The Future of African Leadership Will Be Systemic, Not Heroic
Moving the leadership conversation from individual heroics to systems, stewardship and design.
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Africa's Leadership Future Will Not Be Imported
Why imported leadership tools distort what they measure, and what building our own requires.
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Revealing Ourselves: Designing Tools the World Can Trust
On building diagnostic instruments that are contextually grounded and globally credible.
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Reflection on the Africa Philanthropy Forum
Notes from the Africa Philanthropy Forum on power, funding and proximity to context.
Read the piecePerspective / UKFIET, 2023
Localization only succeeds if women and girls are at the center
Why a genuine shift in the humanitarian system depends on placing women and girls in the Global South at the centre of localisation.
Read the piecePerspective / Diplomatic Courier, 2022
How to Change Mindsets and Empower Young Women and Girls
On education, culture and the mindset shifts that make opportunity real for young women and girls.
Read the pieceResearch / Book chapter, 2024
Investments needed to transform education in Africa
A book chapter on the investment choices required to transform education systems across the continent.
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From LinkedIn
Notes and updates from the team
Shorter reflections and field notes, published first on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn / August 2026
Building African Organisations: How We Got Here and Where We Are Going
Ibukun Adegoke Agu
Read on LinkedInLinkedIn / July 2026
A framework can travel further than its understanding
Dr Vongai Nyahunzvi
Read on LinkedInLinkedIn / June 2026
Wangari Maathai, Kenya and the Green Belt Movement
Dr Vongai Nyahunzvi
Read on LinkedInLinkedIn / June 2026
Not what skills do your leaders need, but what conditions have shaped them
Dr Vongai Nyahunzvi
Read on LinkedInLinkedIn / May 2026
In residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center
Dr Vongai Nyahunzvi
Read on LinkedInLinkedIn / March 2026
Leadership development beyond performance: Depthwork® at Victoria Falls
Dr Vongai Nyahunzvi
Read on LinkedInLinkedIn / February 2026
Reclaiming African epistemic freedom for equitable leadership
Dr Vongai Nyahunzvi
Read on LinkedInLinkedIn / January 2026
What if the leadership frameworks Africa needs came from Ubuntu, Ma'at and Sankofa?
Dr Vongai Nyahunzvi
Read on LinkedInLinkedIn / December 2025
Selected as a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident
Dr Vongai Nyahunzvi
Read on LinkedInLinkedIn / September 2025
Our first Depthwork® training in Nairobi, with leaders from five African countries
Dr Vongai Nyahunzvi
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