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African Leadership Academy: Leaders Who Will Transform Africa

African Leadership Academys core mission - to create lasting peace and prosperity in Africa by developing and connecting the continents future leaders - is founded on our belief that Africas greatest need is ethical and entrepreneurial leadership. Too often, we address the symptoms of bad leadership in Africa: we give blankets, food, and medicine to those affected by war, poverty, and famine. But these symptoms will not stop unless we develop political leaders who create policies that foster peace and stability, scientists who increase sustainable food production and access to healthcare, and entrepreneurs who build scale enterprises to generate the employment so urgently needed on the continent. ALA seeks to catalyze large-scale change in Africa by developing thousands of transformative leaders for the continent over the next several decades. Our model for change involves three steps: (1) we identify the most outstanding young leaders across Africa; (2) we develop these young leaders through an innovative, formative program that focuses on hands-on practice; and (3) we foster powerful, life-long networks for these leaders that position them to achieve significant impact in Africa. ALA believes that behind every large-scale effort for change, there are usually a few individuals who serve as the catalyst. ALA is therefore mining the continent for such individuals and then developing and connecting them to the resources and networks they need to achieve transformative change in Africa. We aim to develop the next Nelson Mandela, the next Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and African leaders to follow in the footsteps of Bill Gates, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Jonas Salk. Today, the ALA network includes almost 400 young leaders from 42 African countries, selected from over 9,000 applicants. ALA admits those young leaders with the greatest potential to transform Africa and the world at large, and they come from a wide range of backgrounds: urban and rural; wealthy and destitute; strong families and broken homes. ALA begins with a two year pre-university program on its campus in South Africa where students, selected based on merit alone, complete a unique curriculum with a focus on leadership, entrepreneurship, and African studies. At the Academy, these young leaders engage in hands-on leadership and entrepreneurial experiences, and each young leader develops a culminating project: either an entrepreneurial business or an innovative social venture that serves as a platform for his or her future leadership development. ALA continues to cultivate these leaders throughout their lives, in university and beyond, through leadership mentoring and by connecting them with career opportunities and high-impact networks of people and capital. Our Champions ALA has received more than $30 million USD of philanthropic support from individuals and organizations spanning 25 countries on six continents. Leading donors include individuals such as Scott Cook (Intuit), the Oppenheimer Family (De Beers), Irv Grousbeck (Continental Cablevision), John Morgridge (Cisco), and Carly Fiorina (HP), and instutions like The Robertson Foundation, The Bezos Family Foundation, The MasterCard Foundation, Omidyar Network, The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, The Coca-Cola Foundation, and The WK Kellogg Foundation. ALAs Young Leaders ALAs young leaders are already demonstrating their ability to drive change on a continental scale, launching projects and realizing dreams that have the potential to transform not only Africa, but the world at large. They have built non-profit organizations to combat entrenched social issues; they have developed scalable innovations to address local nutritional challenges; they are exploring cutting-edge ideas in science and technology through their on-campus research; they have launched profitable businesses; and they have shared their ideas at various forums on the global stage. They have also been admitted to the world's top universitiesincluding Harvard, Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, and Princetonand they first two classes of graduates totally 180 students have accepted over US $21M in university scholarship support. In sum, they have coalesced into a powerful community, and as their lives progress, they will work together to build greater initiatives for change.

Campus Address 1050 Printech Ave, Honeydew 2040 South Africa Postal Address Postnet Suite 413, Private Bag X1 Northcliff 2115 South Africa Phone: +27 11 699 3000 Fax: +27 11 252 6190 Email: info@africanleadershipacademy.org

For example, William Kamkwamba, a member of ALAs inaugural class, wrote a best-selling book detailing how he used junkyard scraps to build a windmill and bring electricity to his rural Malawian village. His book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, was named on Amazon.coms top 10 books of 2009. William is now at Dartmouth studying engineering, having progressed from testing as a 4th-grader (at the age of 20) to the Ivy League in just 3 years thanks to his development through the ALA program. William has his sights set on building utility-scale wind power projects to improve the electricity infrastructure in Malawi dramatically. The following short (~5 min) documentary was made about William Kamkwamba in 2008 as he began the ALA program. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arD374MFk4w. In September 2011, the inaugural Anzisha Prize was awarded to ALA student, Joel Mwale, to recognize his entrepreneurial success. This eighteen year-old founder of Skydrop Enterprises built a purified water bottling facility near his home in rural Kenya after an outbreak of dysentery hit his community. The Anzisha Prize (www.anzishaprize.com) was established jointly by ALA and the MasterCard Foundation to celebrate and inspire Africas young entrepreneurial leaders. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6lRxir25l8 In September 2010, National Public Radio aired a great segment about ALA on their Morning Edition program. You can listen using the following link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129742948 At the ALA Leadership Symposium in 2009, Fatoumata Binetou Fall, presented her vision for improved management of water resources in Africa. Fatoumata is from Dakar, Senegal. She became interested in water issues after the long water shortages in her city in 2007, when she and her younger sister had to walk long distances to fetch water for their family. Before coming to ALA, Fatoumata was the top student at Mariama Ba, an all-girls secondary school reserved for the top 30 female performers on the Senegal national primary school examinations. Fatoumata speaks six languages: Wolog, English, French, Spanish, Swahili and Arabic. She is currently attending Harvard College. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJTzOe7Kaxs&feature=related Additional perspective on ALA's program and young leaders can be found at www.africanleadershipacademy.org and on YouTube on the ALA "channel" -- http://www.youtube.com/user/ALAvideochannel including video from the grand opening celebration and leadership symposium that ALA hosted in February 2009, where Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Former South African First Lady Graca Machel Mandela were keynote speakers.