Learning Lessons from COVID -19 Pandemic Crisis: An Opportunity for Strategic Leadership to Transform Economies in the Sub-Saharan Africa through Innovation

COVID -19 has bought untold suffering to various communities around the globe without any solution in the near future. It is these moments of crisis that great champions and economies emerge from. Strategic leadership should focus on how to turn moments of economic depression to come up with economic solution. It is through innovation from simple to complex, from individuals to organizations, and global culture of innovation that Strategic leadership will develop solution to change the world. This paper focuses on simple innovative solution to address some of the complex challenges economies are going in the Sub- Saharan Africa specifically in Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). This paper challenges that the absence of a solution to the COVID- 19 is a sign that the world has done little in terms of dealing with complex challenges, innovation and change. The paper suggests that no problem should be dealt with in a similar way but through creative thinking and innovation leadership should look at every challenge differently from the other. The paper gives a historical details on the discovery of the COVID -19 in China and spreading to almost every country of the world. It then focuses on a handful countries in the region and how leadership responded the pandemic and how it has affected the continent’s economy . It then suggests how the challenges can be dealt with.