Abstract
<jats:p>Ethical Leadership Beyond Rhetoric is a rigorous, practical, and deeply reflective guide to leadership that moves beyond slogans, branding, and public statements of values. In a time when organisations, governments, universities, corporations, and faith-based institutions often speak the language of goics while rewarding compromise, this book asks a more demanding question: what truly verns a leader when integrity becomes costly? Prof. Sixbert Sangwa develops the Legitimacy-Morality-Faith Framework , a powerful model for evaluating leadership through three essential dimensions. Legitimacy asks whether authority is rightful, accountable, competent, and worthy of trust. Morality asks whether decisions, systems, relationships, and consequences are truthful, just, and respectful of human dignity. Faith asks what ultimate authority governs the leader's conscience, especially in Christian contexts where leadership must be accountable to Scripture and the lordship of Jesus Christ rather than merely decorated with religious language. Written for scholars, students, executives, entrepreneurs, educators, public servants, pastors, board members, civil-society leaders, and thoughtful citizens, this book integrates leadership studies, moral philosophy, organisational behaviour, institutional theory, African ethical traditions, technology ethics, public governance, business ics, and biblical theology. It examines ethical leadership in professional life, business, education, public service, artificial intelligence, surveillance, global governance, African institution building, faith and work, and Christian leadership under the authority of Scripture. The book is both critical and constructive. It exposes how ethical language can be used to protect reputation while concealing corruption, coercion, manipulation, institutional injustice, and the concentration of unaccountable power. At the same time, it provides practical tools for diagnosis, ethical decision-making, institutional reform, leadership formation, workshops, university teaching, board reflection tion, and Christian professional pract. ice. With documented cases, composite dilemmas, analytical tables, diagnostic instruments, seminar questions, applied activities, a glossary, indexes, and extensive appendices, Ethical Leadership Beyond Rhetoric is designed to serve as a serious educational resource for classrooms, libraries, leadership workshops, governance forums, ministry training, professional development, and research. This is a book for leaders who want integrity to be more than language, for institutions that want accountability to be more than procedure, and for readers who believe that power must be answerable to truth, justice, human dignity, and ultimately to God.</jats:p>