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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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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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It's been six months since the Youth Organisations Directory was launched by AFLI as part of Project Pakati's goal to showcase the work being done by youth-led and youth-serving organisations across Africa. The directory assists African NGO's be recognised and found. Because it aggregates these NGO's on a single, searchable platform, it makes it straightforward for donors, funders and the audiences these organisations serve to find them.
Since it was launched, more than 330 organisations have taken the opportunity to register and create entries for their organisations in the directory. At this point, most African countries are represented. As the directory has grown and become better known, it has been shared by those already listed on it. While entry submission rates were initially slow, submission rates have increased. On a single day towards the end of this month, 23 NGO's submitted entries.
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Two Fellows, Aderonke Onadeko of the Class of 2006 and 2007 Fellow Mezuo Nwuneli have partnered together to launch Nourishing Africa, a hub for entrepreneurs to accelerate their work, connect with funders, markets, talent, and celebrate their successes.
It connects agtech and digital innovators to ensure that Africa nourishes itself and becomes a net exporter of food by 2050. On the site, they explain the simple math: by 2050, 2.4 billion people will live in Africa. If they spend $1 a day on food, this represents a $876 billion annual market. If they spend $10, its an $8.76 trillion annual market. A key goal is to empower Africans to sustainably grow and supply this massive market, reaping the benefits of local jobs.
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2014 Fellow Zeinab Camara has run for office for her first time in the Guinean elections and won her seat in the National Assembly. She stood for election in Boffa as a candidate for the governing party, Rassemblement du Peuple Guinéen or RPG, and won her seat with 62.4% of the vote. She ran against Abdoul Aziz Keita, the UDG candidate.
The elections took place on March 22nd - along with a constitutional referendum - after being postponed four times from the original date in January 2019. As of March 26th, the country was waiting for judicial validation of the results.
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2010 Tutu Fellow Edwin Macharia has written an article titled Leadership in the time of Covid-19 pandemic for Business Daily Africa. In his post, which was published as the pandemic was beginning to ramp up world wide, the global managing partner of Dalberg Advisors explains that leaders must be intentional in how they exercise influence and responsibility to the demands of this pandemic.
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2017 Tutu Fellow Yap Boum II has written a post titled Coronavirus: Amid the global pandemic, lessons for Africa which was published by the Brookings Institution on the 20th of March 2020. Yap is a microbiologist and epidemiologist and the regional representative for Epicenter Africa, the research arm of Doctors Without Borders.
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