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Meet Our Students > Meet Our Young African Leaders
Engage with Outstanding Young Leaders
from across the African Continent
Selected on the basis of merit alone, each of these young people has shown the
potential to hav a transformative impact on Africa. Some are winners of national or international
math, science, debate, and writing competitions. Others are young entrepreneurs who have started
innovative businesses and public service organizations. Many have overcome incredible odds. You
will join them for a powerful journey that will prepare you and your classmates to act as agents of
positive change in Africa and the world.
Meet a Few of Our Student Leaders:
Malawi
Built a windmill to provide electricity to his family’s home
Mbong Madelle Kangha
Cameroon
Top female performer on Cameroon's O-Level examinations
Jihad Hajjouji
Morocco
Teaches
peers and senior citizens in the USA about Morocco and the Arab
world
South Africa
Assumed role of mathematics teacher at her high school
Kenya
Established "A Book for Change" to provide books to Kenyan schoolchildren
Arkanjelo Paul Lorem
Sudan
Refugee who became a top performer at one of Kenya's leading high schools
Built an agricultural business to create sustainable income for an orphaned family
Led development of several new extracurricular activities at his school
Martial arts champion who uses theatre to create social change
Fatou Binetou Fall
Senegal
Spearheaded an extracurricular revival at her high school
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Mehdi Oulmakki