The ALA community hosted various meaningful events around the globe this past month. In early November, we joined our peers at ALU to host African Leadership Network Gathering in Mauritius, with an exceptional collection of like-minded people who see leadership and education as core to Africa’s future. In the US, we hosted our first “Teach Africa” workshops, and in London we held a conversation about leadership in Africa at Regents University, in which moderator Lanre Akinola (Editor of African Business) led a spirited conversation about the continent with former Ecobank CEO Arnold Ekpe, CDC Chairman Graham Wrigley, and ALA graduate Aida Ndiaye (recently graduated from Oxford, and now on the Africa Policy team at Facebook). We are grateful to our host Lord Michael Hastings CBE, and to everyone who came out on what was a very cold, but inspiring evening!
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