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INSIGHT: How Africa’s Youth are Rising to Meet the Continent’s Socio-economic...
By 2035 Africa will have the largest youth workforce in the world. It is the young entrepreneurs that will address the employment gap.”
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10 Funding Opportunities Young Entrepreneurs Can Apply for Now
Struggling to make a start of that surefire venture of yours? If you’re desperate to launch your own business but just don’t have the...
INSIGHT: What Makes a Learning Community?
Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.” – Moroccan Proverb
Housemaster, sports coach and a teaching fellow in ALA’s mathematics department, Joseph Ekpenyong shares...
See? There is an App for That…
Some problems are so minor that they’re not even recognized as existing until a solution is found. And the solution is often so simple...
A Successful Start to the Season With Applications From All Over...
The future belongs to young people with an education and imagination to create.”
– Barack Obama
Each year we seek to identify high potential youth aged...
ALA alumni Ellen Chilemba Wins Top Accolade and Grand Prize
The words that teachers at African Leadership Academy use to describe their former student Ellen Chilemba have one thing in common; they all denote success....
Goodman Lepota Becomes ALA’s First Alum on M&G’s List of 200...
Goodman Lepota is one of African Leadership Academy’s most resourceful and politically inclined alumnus. He joined ALA in 2011 with many accomplishments under his...
ALA’s Joel Baraka Steals Headlines After Meeting Queen
Not every journey has a clear path, and Joel Baraka feels this applies to his own journey, but he knows he wants to give...
A Man Called Khesa
I made my first trip to the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho mid-July 2017. I had fantasized a lot about travelling to the world’s only...
ALA Alum Wins 2nd Prize at Smith College-Hosted Draper Competition
Priscilla Semphere has always been vocal about her pride in her language, identity and heritage. So it comes as little surprise when these are...
7 Reasons to apply early to African Leadership Academy
Are you considering applying to African Leadership Academy (ALA)? Do you seek to develop your leadership skills and grow into an influential changemaker for...
Widen the Gates, Without Lowering the Bar
There is an old adage that says talent is universal, and opportunity is not. There is much wisdom in this saying, for it also...
Let’s Prepare for the Future of African Work
Africa needs a revolution. Despite being home to some of the world’s fastest growing economies, millions of Africans are still languishing in poverty. Growth...
