Abstract:
This paper reviews the extant conceptual and theoretical literatures on negotiated democracy
and transformational leadership with a view of identifying its contribution on community
development in devolved governance in Kenya. The introduction of devolved systems in country
and regions previously marked by communal conflict, chronic insecurity, re-current shocks,
marginalization and poverty underscores the need to assess elder-led negotiated democracy
and transformational leadership and their contribution to community development. The level of
development in a country are determined by the type and quality of leadership. Africa’s and by
extension Kenya’s developmental failures are largely because of ineffective leadership,
corruption, low public participation in political dispensation, ethnicity, weak institutional and
governance structures. Negotiated democracy and transformational leadership plays a pivotal
role in political and socio-economic agenda, democratic governance, conflict resolution in
ethically divided communities, and development of the community and the Country. The paper
summarizes the existing theoretical and conceptual knowledge gaps and proposes a theoretical
model that will guide conducting of an empirical study
