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The latest news from the African Leadership Institute and its Fellows. AFLI Fellows are leaders and change-makers, so this section has a lot of news. All text in all of the posts is fully searchable.
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2018 Tutu Fellow Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg PhD has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Autodesk Foundation. On its site, the Foundation says it supports innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. Its funding areas are concentrated on energy and materials, health and resilience, and work and prosperity.
Wanjiru is the founding executive director of Black Women in Executive Leadership (B-WEL) and an executive-in-residence at Schmidt Futures.
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2016 Tutu Fellow Peter Biar Ajak has been interviewed on Al Jazeera News about the conflict in Sudan. Peter, who is from South Sudan, spoke about the impacts the neighbouring war could have on South Sudan. In the interview, he makes the case that Sudan’s conflict will have enormous repercussions on South Sudan. He also argues that the international community - especially the United States - missed opportunities earlier in the transition by focusing too much on the generals leading the sides, when they were the cause of the crisis.
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Africa faces climate change related challenges that range from cyclones to desertification; deforestation and drought to flooding. To make a difference, a group of Tutu Fellows comprising four Fellow-run organisations and other partners have created an initiative called the Africa Climate Ambassadors Programme.
Since it was formed early in 2023, Climate Ambassors in the first cohort have been active. The expertise within the group ranges from finance though policy to technology and messaging and a key goal is to develop a green economy for Africa.
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Following a two-year hiatus during COVID, the Skoll World Forum was back in April 2023 in Oxford. The SWF has rightfully earned its reputation as the foremost gathering of actors in the social sector ecosystem.
There was a strong presence of the Tutu Fellows, in various capacities. 2009 Fellow James Mwangi attended in his capacity as a board member of the Foundation, a panelist and a moderator. 2019 Fellow Dr Angela Gichaga was there as a 2022 Skoll Awardee, but now only being able to be celebrated and collect her award in person. 2010 Fellow Bright Simons was yet another Skoll Awardee, from 2019. Yes, we boast two Skoll Awardees, in our midst…
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The conflict in Sudan is escalating and has reached the point where embassies are airlifting their staff out of the capital, Khartoum. Foreign powers are rescuing their nationals using military special forces, airlifts, and convoys driving past fighters from both sides during a short cease-fire. 2015 Sudanese Tutu Fellow Samah Salman has been interviewed by Voice Of America about the conflict.
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The African Leadership Institute is pleased to announce the Associates who have been selected for the 2023 Class of the Tutu Fellowship. As has been the case with previous cohorts, the people selected are exceptional emerging African leaders.
AFLI received more than 380 nominations of outstanding quality from across Africa, from which the cohort was selected. They are from Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda and span the worlds of consulting, banking, civil society, renewable energy, public sector, policy and entrepreneurship. It is this rich diversity of nationalities, professions and perspectives that makes the programme experience rich.
The selected candidates demonstrate the incredible wealth and breadth of leadership talent that exists in Africa’s young people, which bodes well for Africa’s future.
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2006 Tutu Fellow Janah Ncube was named a 2023 World Fellow at Yale University in March. She is one of only 16 people chosen for this prestigious global leadership development program at Yale, in its 22nd cohort. Janah is Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Crisis Action, a global organization working on the protection of civilians in conflict.
Janah joins a network of over 400 Yale World Fellows representing 96 countries and is the sixth Zimbabwean to be chosen for this program and one of several Tutu Fellows selected for this Fellowship.
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Two Tutu Fellows have been selected for the 2023 cohort of the 100 Young Global Leaders Forum. They are 2018 Fellow Oluseun Onigbinde and 2022 Fellow Aïssata Lam. Twelve people from Africa were selected.
The Forum Young Global Leaders selects 100 people each year to build a community of outstanding people to address the world's most pressing problems.
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2019 Tutu Fellow Uzoma Nwagba has been selected into the prestigious Global Eisenhower Fellowship. Uzoma is a lead innovator and Chief Operating Officer of Nigeria’s Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP), managing the world’s largest microcredit scheme.
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2010 Tutu Fellow Bright Simons has written an article in the Global Policy Journal called What the World Bank Needs More than Cash.
In the piece, he argues that the main bottleneck that the Bank's new President Ajay Banga, must address is the absorption channel for development finance, rather than fundraising. Bright thinks that more fundraising by the World Bank won’t make it any easier for needy countries to actually absorb this funding, unless compliance and capacity issues are also fixed, which constrain current disbursements. The new World Bank president, was the former Chairman of Mastercard.
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2017 Tutu Fellow Mitoha Ondo’o Ayekaba has been appointed Equitorial Guinea's Minister of Health. He previously had served as the Vice Minister of Health and Social Welfare in Equatorial Guinea, a position to which he was appointed in 2018. The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MINSABS) in Equatorial Guinea works to sustain public health and promote healthy living for the Republic's population.
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2009 Tutu Fellow Geci Karuri-Sebina PhD has joined the new Board of The Open Institute. She was appointed to the position in February 2023.
The Open Institute is a non-profit organization based in Nairobi, Kenya that collaborates with governments, civil society organisations, citizen groups and private sector companies to find innovative ways to achieve sustainable development. The institute's goal is to support open societies managed by informed fact-driven citizens.
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2018 Tutu Fellow Serah Makka has been appointed permanent Africa Executive Director for ONE. The appointment took place at the end of February 2023.
ONE is a global movement campaigning to end extreme poverty and preventable disease by 2030, so that everyone, everywhere can lead a life of dignity and opportunity.
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2011 Tutu Fellow Victor Ochen appeared on Al Jazeera in a panel regarding the annual African Union Summit in Ethiopia in February 2023 in an extensive and wide-ranging interview. Victor responded to questions about the state of the African Union, conflict, famine, and international influence. Victor is a previous Nobel Peace Prize nominee and the founder of AYINET, a non-profit that works with victims of conflict and war and promotes youth leadership and gender inclusion.
When asked about the interest in Africa from outside political influences such as the US, China, and Russia, Victor spoke about the strategic significance of Africa.
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2018 Tutu Fellow Edzai Zvobwo has been interviewed by the SABC about ChatGPT and education. GPT, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) chat program created by an AI research company Open AI. This AI is based on software technology called Natural Language Processing. The interview took place in January 2023.
Edzai mentions that the new version is impressive because it sounds like a human being.
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- Tutu Fellows at major global convenings
- AFLI Selected by Gates Foundation to Run Calestous Juma Leadership Programme
- AFLI Receives Award at the Reykjavik Global Forum – Women Leaders
- Hopewell Chin'ono wins anti-corruption award
- AFLI Founders honoured by the University of the Western Cape
- Bilha Ndirangu interviewed by Lanre Akinola on COP27
- Fellow's book on systems of social change wins award
- Peter Biar Ajak begins Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard
- Ahmed Zahran chosen for Fortune's Change the World List 2022
- Robtel Neajai Pailey PhD wins APCG book award