| Summary: | This paper is an analysis on “Leadership and Good Governance in Africa: Is there Any Link? Africa’s failures of good governance and regional development have been largely as a result of leadership failures. These manifest in frequent leadership change, lack of political will, lack of realistic ideology, policy reversal and weak institutions. The paper focuses on selected African countries with more emphasis on Nigeria. Data were generated from secondary sources and analysed using content analysis. The paper reveals
that the leadership election processes in the continent takes the imposition pattern and
that African leaders have frequently come to their position with different motives instead
of the quest to facilitate the delivery of services through good governance. Therefore,
leadership failures in the areas of poor policies, policy sumersault, indiscipline, corruption and the likes have weakened the system of governance or rather good governance, which affect overall development. Thus, for Africa to overcome the crises of leadership and governance, the leaders should carry out their entrusted obligations with
zeal and just. The paper concludes that only leadership that has the people at heart and
emerge through free and fair election can be relevant to the regional development of Africa through good governance
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