Tag Archive | Fred Swaniker

Working to Keep Young Talent in Africa

In 2004, Fred Swaniker founded the African Leadership Academy, a school with the ambition to provide an educational environment that could prepare students to be leaders and entrepreneurs, and ensure a better future for Africa. Swaniker, who was born in Ghana and graduated from the Stanford School of Business, was facing the growing concern that […]

Fred Swaniker – changing Africa for the better | Tunde Folawiyo

Fred Swaniker, a well-known Ghanaian entrepreneur, has accomplished many things over the course of his relatively brief career; however, his most notable achievement is undoubtedly the co-founding of the African Leadership Academy, a boarding school which has providing hundreds of talented young people across the continent with the opportunity to learn about leadership, and entrepreneurialism. […]

CEO of African Leadership Academy attends business leadership event | Tunde Folawiyo

Recently, the annual MTN Business World Executive Breakfast Meeting was held in Accra; the purpose of this event is to provide Ghanaian entrepreneurs, senior management professionals and CEOs with the opportunity to discuss important issues, network and engage with one another. The theme for this year’s meeting was leadership in business, a subject which is […]

Fred Swaniker explains the goals of the ALA | Tunde Folawiyo

One of Ghana’s most successful entrepreneurs, Fred Swaniker, was recently interviewed about the African Leadership Academy, which he co-founded over a decade ago. He explained that, very early on in his life, he had realised that there was a distinct lack of visionary, ethical leaders in Africa, and that it was this deficit which was […]