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2019 Sundance Film Festival celebrates The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, a biopic based on the remarkable true story of ALA alumnus William Kamkwamba, premiered at this year’s Sundance...

Teaching Africa: Africa Through the Lens
African Leadership Academy’s Teaching Africa program started with two successful pilot events in 2017. It features a series of professional development workshops that explore interdisciplinary approaches...

Announcing SEGL at ALA
In January 2020 up to 24 students will have the opportunity to participate in the ‘SEGL at ALA Program’, a one-term offering on our...

Meet ALA’s Class of 2018: Mpiwa Gwindi (Zimbabwe)
As part of our series of introductions to African Leadership Academy’s 2018 cohort, we introduce you to a passionate arts performer, Mpiwa Gwindi from...

How ALA is helping me develop change-makers in India
Shashanka Rao, an Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Sciences graduate from India, joined ALA to explore his passion and purpose in leadership development. What he found was...

Alumni Spotlight: Postcolonial Theorist Takondwa Semphere, on Homecoming
‘Home can become this ill-spoken-of place that you constantly defend, so that in a sick and twisted way, you begin to breed, in yourself,...

Meet Colette Campbell: ALA’s Catalyst Term Student, 2018
In April 2015, African Leadership Academy launched its Catalyst Term program, offering an opportunity to extend its global offerings to a select group of students from...

Meet ALA’s Class of 2018: Chemutai Wanjiru Ruto (Kenya)
Welcome to our series of introductions to African Leadership Academy’s 2018 cohort – and meet ALA’s feisty young changemaker Chemutai Wanjiru Ruto, who is...

African Leadership Academy’s Festive Rituals
School’s out! By the time you read this, most of our students and staffulty will be in the bosom of family and friends, celebrating...

ALA’s Recommended Reads: Our 2018 Page Turners
Whether your Festive Season break is brief, or wonderfully extended, whether you’re homebound or on the road, there’s no time more suited to settling...

10 Lessons From 10 Years: Everything Will Be OK
Welcome to lesson 10 from ALA CEO Chris Bradford’s reflections on lessons learned over the past 10 years of establishing Africa’s leading educational institution.
‘We...

Wilson Da Silva shares an inside view of ALA’s recruitment drive
‘Our job is to scout, so we go to places that a lot of people wouldn’t go – really remote; I’ve been to places...

Leaving a legacy: 5 tips from a Student Government veteran, Tania...
‘I learnt that one cannot be reactionary when in government … Reacting without thinking about the solutions to the problem
will not help you as a...

