Brief Overview of Leadership Style: School Perspective in Cameroon

This chapter examines the leadership styles of secondary school principals in Cameroon, using the
typologies of transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles. In this chapter, I
discuss the leadership styles of principals in schools in Cameroon and put forward ideas for
continuous improvement in the area of leadership and management of schools in Cameroon. I use a
qualitative approach and a semi-structured interview in this chapter. The ten provinces of Cameroon
were used by selecting out of each province ten principals, ten teachers, and ten students to
represent the respondents. The majority of these principals in various schools in various provinces
described themselves as transformational leaders. Doubts were cast on the nature of transformational
leadership in schools in Cameroon that principals gave as a style that defines them since there are
less training and development for leadership in schools in Cameroon.