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2022 Founders Day Sports Carnival: ALA Campus Life Returns

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The 2022 Founders Day Sport Carnival marked a welcome return to vibrant life on campus. In the wake of the lockdown restrictions, it had...
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Lessons From Collaboratively Recruiting Africa’s Most Promising Young Leaders

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ALA’s leadership development model and its efficacy depends on the synergy of its three consecutive components. First, we identify potential by combing Africa for youth who...
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Developing Critical Thinking and Analysis through Seminal Readings at ALA

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Each term at ALA, students, faculty and staff immerse themselves in a week-long exercise of studying and discussing carefully chosen texts, all reflecting the...
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Taalaw 2018 – Gallery

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Every year in September ALA marks the official opening of the new academic year, celebrating in vibrant fashion with an assembly of students, staffulty,...
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Empowering Breaks: How ALA Students Spent Their Holidays

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Lobna Jbeniani (Tunisia) I attended the Global Leaders Program at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, won the pitch competition and was awarded the presidential scholarship to...
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From all-rounder to Filmmaker: How Daniel Semphere's Entrepreneurial Journey Developed at...

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Ask any alum, and they’ll tell you that ALA changes you – in ways you could not have imagined. Oh, sure. There’s the obvious:...
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June Newsletter: The Graduation (and more!) Issue

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Welcome to our Graduation (and More!) Issue Graduation is a highlight on our annual calendar and this year, as we send another group of impressive young leaders...
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2018 Graduation Speeches [Video]

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Dean Hatim Eltayeb’s commencement address at African Leadership Academy’s annual Graduation Ceremony, which was held on 22 June 2018, inspired – and, at times,...
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The Phagocytosis Method: Sophia Chima's Graduation Reflections

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Attending ALA has caused me to confront a lot of my misgivings and shortcomings. I’ve been placed into positions, situations, and relationships that have...
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May Newsletter: Forecasting Africa's Future

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Welcome to our special ‘Forecasting Africa’s Future’ issue. ALA seeks to power lasting peace and shared prosperity in Africa. This is at the heart of...
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How African Blockchain Initiative Aims to Transfer Power to the People

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Having run for a second term in  Student Government, Secretary Emeritus Tania Twinoburyo should know a thing or two about what goes into the...
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Changing the System: How to Run a Successful Student Government Election

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Having run for a second term in  Student Government, Secretary Emeritus Tania Twinoburyo should know a thing or two about what goes into the...
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New African Voices: ALA's Alumni Storytellers

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“A story does many things. It entertains, it informs, it instructs.” – Chinua Achebe Leadership comes in many forms – and nowhere is this clearer than...