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Jacks of All Trades: The Phillips-Pages reflect on ALA’s Formation
Ryan and Jen Phillips-Page played instrumental roles in establishing African Leadership Foundation, assuming numerous ad-hoc positions that included fundraising, logistics, recruitment, maintenance, and more....

Between the Lines: The Agony and Ecstasy of Seminal Readings
‘One thing I like about Seminal Readings is how the conversations never end. Powerful and livid discussions within the classroom often continue outside, with...

How GSP Goes Beyond Inspiring Young Global Citizens
African Leadership Academy’s Global Scholars Program is not your ordinary summer camp. A truly global program aimed at young aspiring leaders from all over the world,...

E-Fest: A Test of Student Mettle, Team Building and Innovative Enterprises
Year 1 student and Student Government Secretary Tania Twinoburyo reflects on the highs and lows of the culmination of a year-long entrepreneurial course that...

Decennial Symposium: Educating the World's Youngest Continent
In celebrating ALA’s 10 years, the Decennial Symposium sought to challenge our assembled network to imagine Africa’s future. Together, they tackled some of the...

Decennial Symposium: Reimagining Higher Education
Adam Habib (Vice Chancellor, WITS University)
Khuraam Masood (COO, African Leadership University)
Reimagining Higher Education
Looking for more talks and panels: See all the videos and coverage from our Decennial Symposium...

Africa is NOT a Country: What Teaching at ALA Taught Me
Every culture or nation has characteristics that set it apart from others. But this truism seems lost when speaking to people who’ve never experienced...

GAME ON: How Classroom Play Infuses a Love of Learning
“Education is not the filling of pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Mopati Morake, Head of Writing and Rhetoric, is one of...

10 Ways in which ALA's Pardee Learning Commons Redefines Learning
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...

Why I Love Our New Learning Commons
I think I enjoy the versatility of the spaces, because we can do much more; we can have group discussions in the conference rooms...

INSIGHT: What Makes a Learning Community?
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...

CEL's Inaugural Entrepreneurial Leadership For All Symposium
This year, the Centre for Entrepreneurial Leadership began an exciting partnership with the Susan McKinnon Foundation with the goal of creating a continual and...

Pardee Learning Commons construction update – Recreating Spaces and Redefining Learning
“Light, light, light” is the chief mantra of the Paradee Learning Commons building team, says Unathi Ntuli, Project Manager of our campus construction project, gripping the...