Spirituality and Ubuntu as foundation for building African institutions, organizations and leaders

It is widely argued that institutions and organizations are the building blocks of modern societies. However, African nations are characterized by
an institutional void and ineffective organizations. In fact, even the effectiveness of informal institutions such as customs and traditions is now
debatable. Therefore, this paper sets out to provide a novel approach for building effective organizations, leaders and people based on the
foundation of spirituality and African philosophy of Ubuntu. We coupled the concepts of spirituality and Ubuntu and advanced a framework and
techniques to guide the development of African organizations and its people. We have provided theoretical and practical rationale for the use of
spirituality and Ubuntu to augment the Western-based modern approach to managing organizations and its people.