The Journey Journal

#GivingTuesday began in the United States six years ago as a simple idea to create a day of giving after the barrage of spending...

Welcome to the (new!) newsletter from African Leadership Academy (ALA). This is the first in a regular monthly update we hope you will find...

It’s only fitting that an innovative 21st century campus would house a futuristic learning space. So ALA is justifiably proud of the new Frederick...

I think I enjoy the versatility of the spaces, because we can do much more; we can have group discussions in the conference rooms...

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...

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...

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...

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 is one of African Leadership Academy’s most resourceful and politically inclined alumnus. He joined ALA in 2011 with many accomplishments under his...

Not every journey has a clear path, and Joel Baraka feels this applies to his own journey, but he knows he wants to give...

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...

Priscilla Semphere has always been vocal about her pride in her language, identity and heritage. So it comes as little surprise when these are...

Are you considering applying to African Leadership Academy (ALA)? Do you seek to develop your leadership skills and grow into an influential changemaker for...