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Taalu 2022: Let’s Tend to our Garden
The African Leadership Academy community welcomed the return of life to our campus and arrival of the Year 1s with one of our most...
Keamogetse “Moula” Mokhobo-Amegashie on Building a Pan-African Career
“Build friendships. Your greatest gift is making friends and building relationships. Build multinational friendships,” said Keamogetse “Moula” Mokhobo Amegashie. She was delivering the Distinguished...
Hatim Eltayeb Appointed Chief Executive of the Academy
1 September 2022. ALA’s Board of Trustees announced today that Hatim Eltayeb will take the reins as ALA’s Chief Executive Officer.
A native of Sudan,...
Cornell College Welcomes Its First ALA Cohort on Scholarships
The African Leadership Academy is proud to celebrate Mahmoud Wael Attia Ali Elawady, Saad Makhal Mankarious, and Michael-Sean Lotanna Ossai of the recently graduated...
Alumnus Eddy Oketch ‘08 Wins Seat in Kenya Senate
The African Leadership Academy congratulates alumnus Eddy Gicheru Oketch ’08, who won the race for Senator of Migori County in the recent parliamentary elections...
Dean Hatim Eltayeb’s 2022 Graduation Day Speech
“I can say without a shadow of a doubt that the past two years have been the most difficult of my professional career. I...
ALA Alumna Cynthia Okoye ‘14 Wins Bill Gates Sr. Prize
African Leadership Academy Alumna Cynthia Okoye has been awarded the Bill Gates Sr. Prize in recognition of her outstanding research and social leadership. She...
ALA Alumna Geraldine Mukumbi ‘11 Named Knight-Hennessy Scholar-Elect
African Leadership Academy alumna Geraldine Mukumbi has been named a 2022 Knight-Hennessy Scholar-Elect and will now pursue a PhD at Stanford University.
She was previously...
E-Fest: Bringing Innovation to Africa’s Solution Issues
The Entrepreneurship Festival (E-Fest) is a hallmark event at ALA: it comes at the end of the second term, during which Year 1 students...
Mohamed Echkouna ’11 Announced As 1 of 6 Winners of Netflix...
ALA alumnus Mohamed Echkouna ’11 has been named one of the six winners of the ‘African Folktales, Reimagined’ short film competition, which was created by...
The Team Behind The Design: Architect Mphethi Morojele
When discussing the renovation of the older buildings on campus, a recurring theme emerges: we need to preserve the “look and feel” of ALA,...
The Team Behind the Design: Architect Sinethemba Buthelezi
In South Africa, there is only a small group of professional architects. Sinethemba is one of them, and one of the very few black...
2022 Founders Day Sports Carnival: ALA Campus Life Returns
The 2022 Founders Day Sport Carnival marked a welcome return to vibrant life on campus. In the wake of the lockdown restrictions, it had...
