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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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On May 4th and May 5th, in partnership with the African Union Youth Envoy, Aya Chebbi, and her office, Project Pakati convened a workshop to discuss how to achieve greater youth inclusion in African governments.
This pan-African workshop served to consolidate knowledge from experts, policymakers and practitioners on youth inclusivity policy in governance on the continent. Across the two day workshop, we engaged with 16 such experts in depth and were able to assess, in a structured and rigorous way, the drivers and inhibitors of meaningful youth inclusion reform, the obstacles policymakers and politicians face in undertaking such reforms, and how best to implement progressive reforms for greater youth inclusion in governance on the continent.
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A piece by 2016 Tutu Fellow Victoria Ibezim-Ohaeri titled COVID-19 and the shrinking civic space in Nigeria has been published in Just Security. Victoria leads Spaces for Change, which has a focus on defending the civic space. Her piece examines how the coronavirus pandemic is being used as a cover to shrink civic in the name of 'national security'.
Victoria is the founder and director of research and policy at Spaces for Change, a non-profit organization based in Nigeria that conducts research and advocacy that includes a focus on defending the civic space.
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Unlocking Africa's Business Potential by 2015 Tutu Fellow Landry Signé has recently been released and has had good feedback and editorial reviews. Landry makes the case that Africa welcomes business investment and offers some of the world's highest returns and impacts. The book examines business opportunities in the eight sectors with the highest potential returns on private investment in Africa. These sectors include: consumer markets, agriculture and agri-processing, information and communication technology, manufacturing, oil and gas, tourism, banking, and infrastructure and construction.
He says Africa is one of the world's fastest growing regions and by 2030 will be home to nearly $1.7 billion people and an estimated $6.7 trillion in consumer and business spending. Landry is a prolific writer and thinker, having authored or co-authored more than 27 manuscripts, books, articles and book chapters, with several books dealing with Africa's economy.
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2014 Tutu Fellow Sello Hatang mobilised the Nelson Mandela Foundation when it became apparent that South Africa would be facing a massive humanitarian crisis due to COVID-19. Along with The Kolisi Foundation and the Imbumba Foundation, by the end of April his foundation had set up Each One Feed One as an emergency relief vehicle, focusing on food security. He was helped by 2013 Fellow Catherine Constantinides, who was an ambassador for the initiative.
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2015 Tutu Fellow Wiebe Boer’s investment company, All On, has created a $500,000 relief fund for solar power companies to install renewable energy to critical emergency response centres across Nigeria during the Covid-19 crisis. It is allowing frontline healthcare workers to have essential services they need to combat the virus and care for patients.
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Two Tutu Fellows - Omoni Oboli and Jude Abaga - are collaborating on a movie called Namaste Wahala. Jude, a 2017 Tutu Fellow is a producer on the movie, while Omoni, a 2018 Fellow, is an insider of the Nigerian movie scene.
Namaste Wahala is at the intersection of bollywood and nollywood, featuring a cast drawn from both the Indian subcontinent and Africa. ' It is directed by businesswoman-turned-filmmaker, Hamisha Daryani Ahuja
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2019 Tutu Fellow Sangu Delle, who leads Africa Health Holdings, has donated more than 10,000 PPEs and other supplies to the Ghana Association of Doctors in Residence (GADOR). The donation by Sangu, in conjunction with Rabito Clinic, included N95 masks, protective gowns, gloves and sanitizer. Supplies will be distributed by GADOR to health workers across Ghana.
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2014 Tutu Fellow Ada Osakwe was interviewed by Richard Quest on CNN regarding the impact of COVID-19 on businesses in Nigeria and how she has been helping her employees. Ada explained how she was prioritising her employees, but that small businesses, which were negatively impacted by social distancing and closures, needed government assistance.
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2010 Tutu Fellow Bright Simons explains why conspiracy theories like the debunked 5G narrative, alternative facts, folk science, and fringe beliefs now flood news bulletins and timelines. In his piece for The Africa Report, he unpacks why crackpot information is having a field day - and what to do about it.
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2013 Tutu Fellow Monica Musonda has mobilised her company, Java Foods, to donate food to those in need as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the impact of which has been catastrophic for the informal sector. Java Foods is a food processing company providing affordable nutrition using locally-acquired raw materials to the Southern African market.
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2015 Tutu Fellow Mosunmola Cynthia Umoru has drawn on her contacts and network to minimise the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the most vulnerable in her community. She is an agribusiness entrepreneur who - in one week - jointly raised a total of N6,866,800 in cash, and food valued at N750,000 (about $20,000USD).
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2019 Tutu Fellow Akim Daouda, the new CEO of Gabon's Sovereign Investment Fund, will oversee all of FGIS' investments and work closely with ministries, leaders, and those in the private sector. He will be leading FGIS at a pivotal moment, as it is positioning itself at the heart of the country’s response and recovery strategy in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Africa Unusual Working Group is a cohort of professionals working across the African continent who came together to generate and lobby for practical solutions that can help combat COVID-19 within Africa. A great number of its members are Tutu Fellows, truly attesting to the wealth of not only the programme, but also the power of the Fellowship and what it can accomplish for good.
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2017 Tutu Fellow 'Bosun Tijani is using his technology company - Co-Creation Hub - to combat the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by offering support for tech and communication projects related to the virus. He is partnering with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on communication projects using indigenous languages to reach remote areas across Africa.
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Dr Tariro Makadzange, a 2007 Tutu Fellow, has assisted in the development of Zimbabwe's Guidelines for the Management of COVID-19. The document is published by the National Medicine and Therapeutics Policy Advisory Committee of the Zimbabe Ministry of Health and will serve as the national guide and standard for Zimbabwe for managing the pandemic.
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