The accomplishments of a former ALA student | Tunde Folawiyo

The African Leadership Academy is an organisation which many people, including Tunde Folawiyo, are now familiar with. It opened its doors just six years ago, welcoming the continent’s brightest young minds into its classrooms, and offering them the chance to...

How one ALA student is changing the face of African literature | Tunde Folawiyo

It’s little wonder so many people, including Tunde Folawiyo, support institutes like the African Leadership Academy. The success of the projects launched by the ALA’s students is quite astonishing, with virtually all of them having had an enormously...

The remarkable journey of one ALA student | Tunde Folawiyo

Anyone who is familiar with the ALA, like Tunde Folawiyo, will be aware that the students who study at this academy are exceptional in many ways, with a significant number of them having surmounted enormous obstacles in order to achieve their educational goals. Paul...

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...

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...

Siebel Scholars Impact Award | Tunde Folawiyo

Chris Bradford, the co-founder of the African Leadership Academy, is a Siebel Scholar, who graduated from Stanford’s business school nine years ago.  Last year, the ALA – arguably Bradford and Fred Swaniker’s most successful initiative to date...