Transforming Acholi Culture: The Power of Relational Influence and Work Ethics

The project sought to deal with the prevailing negative attitude towards works in the Acholi culture. The collapse of Acholi traditional cultural values, way of life, beliefs, and idiosyncrasies has accelerated this situation. The situation has been compounded by scarcity of effective transformational leadership and the erosion of positive influence of the church on Acholi leadership worldview and practice on one hand. On the other hand there was the failure to appreciate the importance of incarnational leadership and its impact on transformational change in transforming prevailing Acholi cultural values, beliefs, and attitude.

The result of the project is a professional pragmatic biblically based, contextually and culturally relevant curriculum on work ethic, which can be easily taught to others within the context of local community setting. Furthermore, it will form the basis for a ministry to raise and equip emerging leaders in the Acholi community to become societal transformers. The project was also designed to help equip leaders to know how to exegete their communities as a process of transformation.