Twenty percent of the young leaders at ALA are brought to our attention by community members who nominate them. You may know a young leader at secondary school or equivalent who has shown leadership potential in your community. We accept nominations for high school students with potential from as young as 13 years old.
Develop – Participate in developing Africa’s next generation of transformational leaders
Discover – Help a student discover a life-changing opportunity that they weren’t aware of before
Reward – Reward students for incredible achievements, commitment to service, passion for Africa, and leadership potential
We want to find students aged 13-18 who meet and exceed the high standards of excellence we require in our application process. Click here to learn more about our admission criteria. You don’t have to wait until the nominee is in the age range to be accepted to send us a nomination.
We use your information to connect the student directly to ALA’s application resources
Nominations help us find the best and brightest young leaders on the African continent
Fill out the nomination form below and we’ll follow up with you and the student
If you are a parent or a prospective applicant, you do not need to fill the nomination form. You may simply proceed to submit an application.
We comb Africa for youth who show the spark of initiative; who see what can be and strive to make it so.
Young leaders complete an intensive program of intellectual growth and hands-on leadership development.
Young leaders are guided by a powerful network along their path to create transformative change in Africa.
Work is not always about getting the task done. There is more meaning to working at ALA. From my experience, there is a deliberate attempt to get to know the person that you are working with. This opens the opportunity to leverage each other’s strengths and build on each other’s weaknesses as growth areas. This is how I see collaboration thriving at ALA.”
Working at ALA has been one of the most fulfilling experiences I have enjoyed in my lifetime. I have the opportunity to work with teams of talented and committed people that inspire me to live my best life all day, every day. My most cherished experience at ALA is being part of a community that cares deeply and with intention for its own, just like a family would. Some of my closest friends are people I work with every day. I remain inspired by their commitment towards mission building for the continent and our community.
ALA shaped my daughter Waigumo into the leader she is today. My deep appreciation goes to the school for providing opportunities to enable her embrace and truly discover her multifaceted characteristics and unknown talents.
Through the various opportunities ALA provided, she developed sound depth in academic research, engaged in arenas that increased her holistic knowledge on African youth and political leadership, empowerment of women on the African continent and engaged in riveting discourses on how to propel the versatile continent into unforeseen heights. With fondness, we are grateful to ALA for not only inspiring her deep passion for mathematics but propelling her to a mind shift of holistic excellence; By gaining a network of like-minded and lifelong friends, I have no doubt that Waigumo will aid in the development of a more equitable, sustainable, and technologically driven future for Africa.
One of my greatest achievements to date was to be appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations to serve as 1 of 17 advocates for the sustainable development goals where I will solve some of the toughest issues facing humanity. If I didn’t go to ALA I would not be where I am today. It changed the trajectory of my life.
I am glad that I made the decision to send my daughter to ALA . She is more articulate, expressive and certain about her purpose in life.
Every student is unique but she/he needs to be nurtured further in order to bloom and ALA is the place that provides the necessary space and opportunities to bring out this uniqueness of its students. Here, no one is a competitor to anyone but rather, only a complement for each other. The student only competes with herself/himself to reach greater heights. How ALA transforms young promising minds within 2 years (filled with challenges, opportunities, diversity, care and fun) into future passionate leaders, can only be experienced and cherished over a lifetime by a parent.
If am happy to see who he has become, and I hope other parents will consider ALA for their child. I can assure them that they will not make a mistake. The transformation in my son is that he now knows who he wants to be.
Through theatre, music, visual, literary, and performing art, storytelling and the creative engagement of our communities we can decolonise and de-commodify our minds, bodies and continent together.
When Francis approached us back in 2013, as Parents, that he wanted to go to ALA, and would therefore fall behind by a year, if he was to leave Bishop Mackenzie International School (BMIS) in Lilongwe, Malawi, we debated the merit of this audacious move. Eventually, we resolved that, no, let us not stand in his way. Let him join ALA, maybe his destiny will be shaped there. I am glad to say, we do not regret he attended ALA. By the time he was finishing at ALA, we noticed that he had certainly matured beyond his age and peers at BMIS. He was brimming with enthusiasm and full of confidence, with a clear focus of what he wanted to do in life. We believe ALA taught him to believe in himself.
One of the things that I learnt at ALA is how to be a pioneer. Don’t be afraid of big ideas that scare you.
