The Launch of Global Leadership Adventures

The African Leadership Academy is an organisation committed to promoting the continent thorough educating African youths to serve as future leaders in business, politics, the sciences and other fields.  The residential secondary school, located in Johannesburg, South...

Promoting Entrepreneurship for High School Students in Africa

The African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa, is bringing a brighter future to its students and to the world through education in leadership, entrepreneurial skills, and the history of the African continent. The school has attracted students from all...

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...

The journey of an ALA graduate

Olaotan (‘Ola’) Awoyomi is a recent graduate of the African Leadership Academy. Like the ALA’s other students, she demonstrated great potential during her younger years; however, it was only after enrolling at this school that she truly began to come...

Anzisha Prize: Africa’s Award for Young Entrepreneurs

Throughout its history as one of Africa’s foremost institutions for learning, the ALA has sought to educate the continent’s bright, young minds in hopes of forging a significant impact upon the future of the region. Through a rigorous curriculum, an active student...

African Leadership Academy Promotes Entrepreneurial Leadership

The African Leadership Academy’s Entrepreneurial Leadership platform seeks to arm the African continent’s bright, young leaders with the proper skills to forge positive impact upon the region. Throughout its history as one of Africa’s finest institutions for learning,...