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This chapter reveals the impact of building a university in an African rural community based on servant leadership. A careful examination of Greenleaf’s theory of an institution as a servant leader could increase understanding about educational institutional challenges to champion the cause of the least privileged followers. Topics include academic and economic benefits regarding development of stable organizational infrastructures to provide access to information technology, and increased motivation of followers in rural university communities. The chapter reveals the factors hindering followers’ success by applying Greenleaf’s servant leadership Best Test. The focus is to note if there is an increase in followers feeling healthier, freer, wiser, more autonomous, and empowered as a student in a rural community in Africa.
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Amah, P. (2017). The Place of a University to a Community: Academic Institutions Where Everyone of the Follower Leads. In: Davis, C. (eds) Servant Leadership and Followership. Palgrave Studies in Leadership and Followership. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59366-1_6
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