Telecom Executive launches Leadership book

A TANZANIAN based telecommunications executive , Norman Moyo , CEO of Helios Towers Tanzania launched his first leadership book  called Rumble in the Jungle , Leadership from an African perspective . 

The launch which was attended by more than 300 of some of the top corporate and civic leaders in Tanzania was officiated by the Minister of Communications , Science and Telecommunications .

In his remarks the minister thanked Mr Moyo for being a bold and exemplary business leader who has taken this unchanted route of sharing his Pan African experience with other leaders . 

He further highlighted commented that “the challenges of leadership in corporate , social and public institutions across the continent is a subject of great debate at many different forums regionally and globally . The call for good leadership is a call which has been getting louder and louder by the day here in Tanzania and across the continent . I am very encouraged to see a new crop of Pan African business leaders beginning to engage in being part of their destiny”.

The minister went on to read a quote from His Excellency former President Benjamin Mkapa , who sent a congratulatory letter to Mr Moyo after reading his leadership book . 

Mr Mkapa wrote  “There is a lot of talk at African Leaders meetings and academic forums about the Africa we want in the next fifty years. 

Little is however described, let alone published, about HOW we are to get there. Indeed there is little exposition about the obstacles on the way forward. Your book strives to fill this important gap.”

“I have appreciated it in particular because it has identified the one factor holding back African development and transformation, namely LEADERSHIP. 

There is a crying need on all African development fronts for a transformative Leadership – leadership with Conviction ,Vision, Mission and Driving Capacity.”

Speaking also at the book launch at Hyatt , Former Tanzanian Ambassador to the United States , Ambassador Mwanaidi Maarjar, congratulated Mr Moyo and highlighted that “This event for me marks the birth of a new idea, a renaissance, a new chapter in the Pan African agenda. 

Your corporate journey across all the 4 corners of the continent, starting in Southern, West, Central, North and East Africa has exposed you to a very unique view of the continent very few of us has seen.

But most importantly it seems to have been a great source of inspiration for you particularly the untapped potential the continent possess. 

I can not over agree with you that the number one biggest economic driver for this continent is not its oil, gas, gold, diamonds but LEADERSHIP. 

This is not a new idea to any of us here but you have simply taken the conversation out of the intellectual realm of debates , and endless 50 year programs with realist and proven execution strategy.”

The book is targeted to be marketed across the whole continent and reputed to create a new set of conversations in the continent.  It is primarily targeting middle to senior managers in corporates and also senior civil servants , ministers and presidents across the continent. 

The launch was followed by an unprecedented purchase of the books  including personalized autographs  by the author .  A number of CEOs purchased books for their organisations after a moving speech from the author himself.