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Two ALA Students win STEM Competition at Annual Derby Day Event
Each year, students from a group of schools across Southern Africa come together for Derby Day, an activity-filled day comprising a range of sports...
Tanzanian Entrepreneur, Erick Laizer ’19 Develops Phone-Operated Smoke Detector and Security...
After noticing a big problem with fires, electric shocks, and house break-ins in his community in Arusha, Tanzania, first-year student Erick Simon Laizer '19...
Four ALA Students Develop Mobile App to Integrate Sign Language to...
Every year, the African Leadership Academy Entrepreneurial Leadership department hosts an Entrepreneurial Festival, also known as E-Fest, which showcases unique solutions to grand challenges...
The Living Machine: Transforming the Teaching of Science at ALA
The Living Machine, a sustainable wastewater treatment system designed and implemented by African Leadership Academy alumni Wuntia Gomda '17 of Ghana and Jesse Forrester...
Training the Trainer: One Educator’s Professional Development Journey at ALA
Since joining African Leadership Academy six years ago, Jake Galloway has held a variety of roles: Writing & Rhetoric faculty, Entrepreneurial Leadership faculty, and...
Global Advisory Council Member, Ed Brakeman Teaches Impact Investment at ALA
African Leadership Academy Global Advisory Council member, donor and long-term friend, Ed Brakeman, facilitated a workshop on Impact Investment for second year students during...
ALA’s Bezos Scholars Host the 8th South African Ideas Festival
During the month of February, African Leadership Academy hosted the eight annual South African Ideas Festival (SAIF), bringing together 35 scholars from high schools...
16 ALA Students Participate at Harvard and Georgetown Model United Nations
Over the past month, 16 first year students in ALA's International Relations Council were selected to attend two of the world’s most internationally acclaimed...
Maxwell Simba ’19: From Nairobi to Johannesburg via Hollywood
Growing up in small agricultural town called Kitali in northern Rift Valley, Kenya, Maxwell Simba discovered from a young age that that he had...
The Power of Productive Internships: Okongo Kinyanjui ’14’s TED Journey
Okong’o Kinyanjui has a true passion for TED and the TED Fellows program. Originally from Kenya and currently in his final year of studies...
Koffi Emmanuel Sadzi ’17 Takes the Road Less Traveled and Ventures...
Koffi Emmanuel Sadzi '17 from Togo made the daring decision to continue his education in Israel at Tel Aviv University. Koffi, who received the...
Noemi Duker ‘17 Wins Business Case Competition with Oberlin College
Speaking about her decision to participate in the competition, Noemi said, “I asked myself, ‘If I were not at ALA would I still have...
Student Enterprise, AfroFem, Contextualizes Feminism at ALA and Beyond
Afro Feminism is a movement that aims to end sexism and sexist exploitations specifically on the African continent. The Student Enterprise (SE) does this...
