The African Leadership Academy is an organisation founded with the aim to develop a new generation of African leader who will work as part of a larger community for peace, prosperity, and the betterment of all. The Academy is aimed at the nurturing of Africa’s youth in a way which will encourage its graduates to seek out peaceful communication, business development, and diplomacy amongst all the people on the continent to secure a brighter future.
While the Academy itself has a physical campus on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, promoted as the perfect location for learning and networking, it is open to students from every corner of the African continent. The qualifications on offer are designed to perfectly compliment other University level studies, allowing students to take part in either a two-year or a gap year programme. For students who live outside of Africa there is also the global scholars programme, which offers a summer initiative over a three-week period for children attending secondary schools around the world.
The Global Scholars Programme lasts for approximately 19 days and is open to a selection of secondary school pupils from all around the world. In this programme, the children are introduced to the key concepts required for any individual to become a conscientious and effective leader. This includes interacting with the community in and around Johannesburg, while encouraging students to engage with one another in a way which will create future positive networks when they become successful adults. As well as visits to the Apartheid Museum 
and the Pilanesberg National Park, students enrolled in the Global Scholars Program will be exposed to the beauty of Africa, while contemplating the origins of mankind and its future through their own potential as world leaders.
At the Academy, which has many supporters including Tunde Folawiyo, opportunities are provided allowing students to take full advantage of their gap year through enrolling in the African Leadership Academy’s Gap Year Program. While studying at the Academy, gap year students are encouraged to interact with many of Africa’s most significant young leaders. Through this interaction and other initiatives, gap year students will learn much about African customs, the different peoples throughout the continent, and the cultural diversity therein.
Lastly, the Academy offers a two-year comprehensive program incorporating all the lessons required for an African student to reach their potential as a future leader. In this way the Academy values leadership skills and an ability to show initiative and bravery, over academic scores or grades.
The African Leadership Academy continues to prosper under the contributions of such influential leaders as Tunde Folawiyo, and will continue to expand its positive influence for many years to come. For more information, please visit the African Leadership Academy website.
Tunde Folawiyo, and anyone else who is familiar with the ALA, will understand what an honour it is to be invited to this event; it’s one of the USA’s most prestigious public gatherings. Aimed at leaders from around the globe, this festival is designed to provide people from virtually every discipline with the opportunity to engage in inquisitive, solution-based discussions regarding the world’s most pressing issues. Each year, approximately 3,000 people attend the 200 sessions arranged by the event organisers, in order to listen to, and participate in stimulating conversations about everything from philanthropy and politics, to art and business.
2014. For the first time in the school’s history, the graduation ceremony was not only witness by friends and family, who were present, but was watched via live streaming over the Internet to loved ones of the graduating class from around the world.
progress of the ‘Elimu Project’, which she set up to provide youths from disadvantaged areas of Kenya with an education.
The distinguished ALA has for years served as one of Africa’s foremost institutions for learning. Since its founding, the academy has implemented a variety of programmes to best fulfill the academic needs of its hundreds of bright students yearly. In upholding its goals to foster the development of Africa’s next generation of great leaders, the ALA will continue to hold its students to a high standard of excellence both in education and in character. Tunde Folawiyo and many others have contributed to the success of the ALA. With more assistance, the ALA may aid its students in providing a brighter future for the communities that nurture them.
determined young minds, the ALA employs a variety of criteria by which hopeful students must adhere in order to be considered for acceptance. Tunde Folawiyo and others supporting the academy’s goals may continue to inspire the continent’s young leaders.
this institute; those who are familiar with this academy, like Tunde Folawiyo, will understand how momentous an occasion this is. Amongst last year’s graduates were Elizabeth Mukayuhi and Diana Ayoub, two young women who are now on their way to creating sustainable positive change across the African continent.
The ALA employs a rigorous admissions process to best sift through the growing number of applicants each year. As an organisation, the ALA seeks to educate not only the brightest of students, but also those who possess the greatest determination to forge true impact throughout African continent. Through courage, innovation and unwavering initiative, students of the ALA may go forth to improve conditions for the communities that have long nurtured them.
Khaoula saw a poster for the African Leadership Academy, applied to join, and after a selective admission process, received a place. She left Morocco to study with the African Leadership Academy in 2011. By studying a rigorous curriculum she developed her entrepreneurial skills and held various leadership positions including chair of the Academy’s student government and CEO of a student run enterprise. She was presented with numerous awards from the Academy including Most Outstanding Entrepreneurial Leadership Journey, Self Leadership Award and The Best Mathematician Award in 2012 and 2013.
ALA founders began their venture with the launch of Global Leadership Adventures, a project facilitating study abroad and summer service projects for students in high schools all over the world. The organisation twice hosted Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak about the effect of Apartheid. Other world leaders and Nobel Prize winners have also been invited to speak to GLA students. The programme’s initiatives, where students work in schools or do other service projects while learning new languages and having cultural experiences, have received global attention and attracted participants from over fifty countries.