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ALA Alumnus Mope Khati ’11 Wins Seat in Lesotho Parliament
The African Leadership Academy congratulates alumnus Mope Khati ’11, who has won a seat in the recent Lesotho national elections. A candidate for the...
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...
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...
New African Voices: ALA's Alumni Storytellers
“A story does many things. It entertains, it informs, it instructs.” – Chinua Achebe
Leadership comes in many forms – and nowhere is this clearer than...
No Looking Back: Eddie Ndopu Makes Space for a Historic 2018
I want people to be powerful, the very best versions of themselves, everything their imagination desires – beyond the ramp, beyond compliance. I want...
The Creative Journey to ALA’s Musical First
Born in South Africa to American journalists, Kate Kraft spent five years at ALA – from 2010 to 2015 – in the African Studies...
November Newsletter: The Innovation Issue
The ALA community hosted various meaningful events around the globe this past month. In early November, we joined our peers at ALU to host African...
A multi-faceted approach to life and science
When Julia Agudogo graduated in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University in North Carolina earlier this year, she did so with a stellar triumph to...
ALA’s First Senate Candidate: Eddy Oketch
Eddy Oketch is the first graduate of African Leadership Academy to run for public office, having just finished his campaign for Senate in Migori,...
See? There is an App for That…
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...
ALA alumni Ellen Chilemba Wins Top Accolade and Grand Prize
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 Becomes ALA’s First Alum on M&G’s List of 200...
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...
