In African Sunborn Leader, a new perspective on the complex African postcolonial landscape is given. A profound perception of leadership and of governance of a continent in transformation is given by a author who knows his continent well and is able to make a clear link between tradition and actuality. Between hope and challenge a balance has to be found by the African leader. A balance between the task of building up a nation and between the task of leading a society in permanent change after independence. The book gives a beautiful insight in the actual situation of the continent and the men who lead it. A leading is given to the readers hand and they are guided through the different situations of the actual leaders. Through the stories told the importance of ethics in governing a country and in leading a nation is stressed. A new vision for a renewed Africa is called for. A vision that is able to do justice to the culture and the values of the different nations and that at the same time is able to be innovative. The leaders of today and of tomorrow have to be able to lead their nation in a positive way and to do so in corporation with the other nations of the continent. They have to be sunborn, they have to have the characteristics of a person who is born in the spirit of the sun that gives life to Africa. Anyone who wants to get an insight in the modern situation of Africa will be enriched by reading this book.