Abstract

The inherent benefit of effective management of diversity and inclusion underscores its importance in organizations and societies. Therefore, leadership and diversity management cannot be dispensable of each other since it is said that leadership is a course and all others are an effect. Put differently, everything within an organization or society increases and decreases with leadership. In this regard, the high degree of diversity found within Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) calls for the alignment of diversity and inclusion concepts and leadership strategies to ensure cohesiveness, translating into efficiency and profitability in organizations and societies. This article aimed to explore the nexus between leadership (transformational leadership) and diversity and inclusion concepts within organizations and societies in SSA. In addition, ethnicity is used as the main element signifying the differences found within SSA to advance the debate. An in-depth literature review was employed in this article, enforcing the argument that effective diversity and inclusion management may be undergirded by competent leadership (transformational) in SSA. Intellectually, the puzzle driving this article is how diversity and inclusion concepts impact transformational leadership in organizations and societies in SSA.