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Ellen Chilemba is the 2017 Glamour Magazine College Woman of the...
Ellen Chilemba ’17 is the Glamour Magazine College Woman of the Year’s grand-prize winner for her work and founding of her organization Tiwale. Chilemba’s community-based social enterprise...
Boarding school chronicles: Surviving the first year away from home
Johannesburg is best for boarding schools
The economic hub of South Africa, Johannesburg, is also called Johannesburg or the City of Gold, Egoli. It’s a...
A Close-up of Life on Campus: A Video by ALA Student
Yassine Khalfalli is a 19 years old Tunisian currently residing in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is passionate about music, film making, and photography. He is currently...
Exploring Africa on a Student Budget
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” St Augustine
Many young people put off travelling, thinking that...
CEL’s Inaugural Entrepreneurial Leadership For All Symposium
This year, the Centre for Entrepreneurial Leadership began an exciting partnership with the Susan McKinnon Foundation with the goal of creating a continual and...
Celebrating Fred Swaniker on the award of an Honorary Doctorate Degree
On 5 March,2017 our founder, Fred Swaniker, was recognised with an Honorary Doctorate degree from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU). The award was given...
The 4th Annual ALA Model African Union
The African Leadership Academy Model African Union took place in Johannesburg from March 15 – 19, 2017. This year’s theme was Enhancing Capacity, Accelerating...
Our Village at ALA – A Conversation With ALA’s Dean Emeritus
The young students aged 16-19 selected to take part in African Leadership Academy’s (ALA’s) two-year pre-university diploma programme are bestowed with an enormous responsibility...
New Video for Prospective ALA Students and Parents
We have a new video that has been in production for a few months. It features our new Dean, Hatim Eltayeb, as well as...
Pardee Learning Commons construction update – Recreating Spaces and Redefining Learning
“Light, light, light” is the chief mantra of the Paradee Learning Commons building team, says Unathi Ntuli, Project Manager of our campus construction project, gripping the...
Benefits of Honing Your Entrepreneurial Skills as a Student
Did you know that Steve Jobs left university and founded Apple in his twenties? Or that Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook while he was an...
Returning to Lead: ALA’s New Dean: Hatim Eltayeb
After a continent-wide search for a new Dean of the Academy, we are thrilled to welcome former faculty member, Hatim Eltayeb back to our campus...
ALU Inaugurates New Campus in Kigali
African Leadership University (ALU) officially inaugurated the ALU Rwanda campus on 12 February, 2017. The campus is home to the ALU School of Business. The ALU...
