True Leadership

Funded by the Peter Cundill Foundation, Viewtone Achaga is a recipient of a CES Canada Leadership Scholarship. He is in the first year of the B.Sc. Degree Program at Nairobi University.

Leadership

In great ability lies responsibility

The vision bearer is a leader

The one who mobilizes doers

Burdened by the cares of seeing for other

Troubled by the problems of people

Hunger, poverty, health, education, justice

That person is a leader

Leadership rarely depends on gender

Taking on and challenging the status quo

Leaders are born, some are made

What matters is what they become

Every position and every capacity of service is

Leadership in one way or another

Those who spend sleepless nights

With interests of others on their mind

Motivating their every step and move

Like Moses and Aaron of Exodus long ago

Malik Khaemba of Ces-Kenya

Achaga Viewtone of the future

Those who identify and embrace positive change

The dynamics of life

Radical reformers like Dr. Martin Luther King

Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Ghandi, 

True Shepherds of the flock

Rightful bearers of the banners

Champions of the weak

Those who have earned the mantle

Those with eyes to see, ears to hear

Those who distinguish sense from non-sense

True Leaders

Those who out of void create substance

Creating scholars from the humble in society

Who trigger motion from stagnation

Dares to mention the unmentionable

Calls a spoon by its name

One who is enslaved by reason and integrity

I am talking about a leader, are you?

Yes, a leader

Captive to the truth

One whose dignity is beyond reproach

Whether an individual or a group

Ces-Kenya/Canada and others

that embrace leadership, leading by example

Leadership, either created or born

The voice of the people

Who Cares

Does it really matter?

by:Viewtone Achaga

Ces-Kenya/Canada scholar

Universtiy of Nairobi 03/2016