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Nchang Tchofor ’18 (Cameroon) named Future Nobel Laureate Scholar
ALA alumnus Nchang Tchofor ’18 has been recognized as a Future Nobel Laureate Scholar by The Nobel Prize Museum and EF Education First. This...
Mohamed Echkouna ’11 Announced As 1 of 6 Winners of Netflix...
ALA alumnus Mohamed Echkouna ’11 has been named one of the six winners of the ‘African Folktales, Reimagined’ short film competition, which was created by...
ALA Alumnus Kudzai Mbinda ’16 Named Rhodes Scholar-Elect
African Leadership Academy alumnus Kudzai Mbinda ’16 has been named Rhodes Scholar-Elect and will pursue a master’s degree in energy systems at the University of Oxford. ...
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...
Goodman Lepota on International Internships and Real Networking
In 2016, Goodman Lepota secured two internships any student would covet – in May, he joined the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and recently went...
ALA Graduates its Fourth Cohort of Students
On the afternoon of Friday, June 21st, seventy-eight students graduated from the African Leadership Academy. This year’s graduation festivities marked ALA’s graduation of its...
ALA graduates champion the cause of Peaceful Transition and alternative Leadership...
During the summer 2012 holiday, Eddy Gicheru Oketch, ALA Inaugural class graduate and student at Trinity College Hartford, spent his holiday in his home...
ALA launches Africa Careers Network
ALA is proud to announce the official launch of the Africa Careers Network web portal! Established in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation, Africa Careers Network...
Words from ALA’s First College Graduate — Madelle Kangha
Madelle Kangha is from Cameroon and is the first college graduate from the African Leadership Academy. Madelle was selected to attend the Academy based...
ALA Welcomes Fifth Cohort of Students
We are proud to welcome our 5th class of students to the African Leadership Academy. This year, we received 2,960 applications to the Academy from...
ALA Students Sweep 2012 Science Olympiad
ALA students swept the stage at the Southern Africa Science Olympiad, held on June 28th, 2012. Our students represented four of the top five performers...
ALA Graduates its third cohort of students
On the evening of Friday, June 15, ninety students graduated from the African Leadership Academy, making it the third class to officially graduate from...
From South Sudan to Yale: ALA Student in The New York...
“Talent is universal, but opportunity is not.” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof profiled ALA graduate Paul Lorem on March 29, 2012. The article describes Paul...
