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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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Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has appointed 2013 Tutu Fellow Dr Kelechi Ohiri as Director-General and CEO of the National Health Insurance Agency. Kelechi has previously served as a senior adviser to the Ministers of Health and Finance in Nigeria.
The National Health Insurance Scheme was legislatively revamped last year to operate as Public Private Partnership and directed at providing accessible, affordable and qualitative healthcare for all Nigerians.
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The Nigerian Exchange has appointed 2009 Tutu Fellow Ahonsi Unuigbe as it's new Board Chairman. The announcement came at the end of September, 2023.
Shareholders also announced a number of other changes, including a new Executive Director and five Non-Executive Directors during the transition.
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2018 Tutu Fellow Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg PhD has founded and launched a Fellowship for Black women in executive leadership - B-WEL - and it held its first convening in the last quarter of 2023 at the Rockefeller Foundation in Italy. The inaugural cohort comprised 17 women from across the globe.
Wanjiru describes B-WEL as a new global initiative focused on improving the numbers, experiences, and impact of Black women in senior and executive leadership. The fellowship of women seeks to collect, collate, and curate Black women's wisdom on leadership, creating connected communities of Black women leaders and collaborations for change.
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Nigerian President Bola Tinubu nominated 2011 Tutu Fellow Muhammad Dattijo as a Deputy Governor of Nigeria's Central Bank in early September 2023. The position comes as part of a shakeup of the central bank by the president in which he appointed Olayemi Cardoso as the bank's new Governor, along with three other deputy governors serving with Muhammad.
The term of the previous CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, was suspended. Muhammad's nomination is for a five-year term subject to Senate confirmation.
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2020 Tutu Fellow Josea Rono PhD has been appointed to Grand Challenges Canada's governance structures. He will be joining the Investment Committee. The mission of Grand Challenges Canada is tackling some of the world’s most pressing global challenges. The organisation invests in ideas that not only apply science and technology, but also integrate social and business approaches, to generate transformative impact.
Josea is Co-Founder and Managing Director at E&K Consulting, a pan-African advisory and investment firm. During his career, he has advised on transactions worth over US$ 20 billion in the global healthcare, innovation, and climate and energy sectors.
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2022 Tutu Fellow Elizabeth Biney-Amissah has been selected as a winner of the 2023 Clean Energy Education and Empowerment Awards by the US Department of Energy. She was the winner in the International category.
The Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Awards honored 11 women for "outstanding leadership and accomplishments in clean energy". The DOE says that the C3E Initiative aims to close the gender gap and increase the participation, leadership, and success of women in clean energy fields.
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10 September this year marked the graduation of the Tutu Class of 2023 – the first cohort to have experienced the shortened, refreshed version of the Oxford-London workshop.
Three overarching themes were at the heart of the programme: Deepening our Roots to build the capacity for self-leadership, connecting to and learning from the Tribes we belong to (especially this one!) so we can grow in how we lead others, and exploring what it means to be a Good Ancestor when it comes to nudging positive and enduring systemic change.
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2009 Tutu Fellow James Mwangi - a featured speaker at the 2023 Africa Climate Summit - is changing the narrative on projects in Africa that can reduce the impact of global warming and climate change. Aside from the merit in these projects, which James addresses, narrative change is an imperative to closing the gap between perceived and actual risks for projects on the African continent.
The high-profile summit in early September 2023 to kick-start the transition to clean energy was attended by leaders from Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Rwanda, the U.S. and the European Union. James was instrumental in helping to organize the event.
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2017 Tutu Fellow Bosun Tijani PhD has been named as Nigeria's Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy. Bosun is a tech entrepreneur who started CcHub, a lab for technologists, software developers, entrepreneurs, tech companies, investors, and other stakeholders in Lagos, and then replicated that success in Rwanda.
His appointment to the post represents a break from the norm of civil servants and career politicians being responsible for Nigeria’s fast-growing digital economy. He takes over from Isa Pantanmi, who formerly served as the director-general of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).
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2013 Tutu Fellow Ally Angula is running as an independent candidate in the Namibian presidential elections, which take place in November 2024.
Ally is a qualified chartered accountant and co-founder of Leap Holdings, a group of companies involved in the growing of fresh produce, garment manufacturing, and retail in Namibia. She is also the founder of My Republik Brand, Namibia’s first locally designed, manufactured, and retailed clothing brand. Aside from her work in the private sector, Ally has also served as the Accountant General of the Republic of Namibia and Head of State Accounts.
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This post is by 2014 Tutu Fellow, Linda Kasonde :
My book, Women, Resilience, and the Will to Lead, tells the story of my journey into leadership, from my upbringing as a child, to a chance encounter with a classmate who made me realise that just putting oneself forward is half the battle in becoming a leader. My story is intertwined with political events in Zambia from 2011 to 2021, which saw my country on the path to democratic decline, and the role I played to try and restore Zambia’s democracy. It touches on difficult topics such as losing a child, mental health, and the sexism faced by women in leadership. It ends with a list of lessons that I have learnt over the years and a call to arms for more women to embrace taking up leadership positions.
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2019 Tutu Fellow Samson Itodo says that the Not Too Young to Run movement he played a key role in convening has seen historic wins in Nigeria’s 2023 Elections. He says that dissatisfication with democracy is partly because of the dominance of gerontocrats in politics and their disconnect from the experiences of most citizens. The Not Too Young to Run movement has been working at mobilizing young people to get into politics to change this.
Nigeria’s 2023 general election is the second general election since the passage of the Not Too Young to Run Act in 2018. Samson says that while an analysis of the list of candidates for the 2023 election shows a small decline in youth candidacy from the 2019 general election, this election produced historic wins none the less.
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2014 Tutu Fellow Isaac Fokuo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between his company, Botho Emerging Markets Group, and the African Union. Isaac is the Founder and CEO of Botho, which works in emerging markets and specializes in investments in these markets. The MoU spurs research and knowledge production and seeks to connect and strengthens private sector ties between Africa and the Middle East.
The signing happened in Nairobi in early July, with Ambassador Albert Muchanga, the Commissioner of the African Union ETTIM Division, and Botho Group Director Aparupa Chakravarti.
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The President of Sierra Leone, Dr Julius Maada Bio, has reappointed 2022 Tutu Fellow Francis Ben Kaifala to serve another five years as Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission Sierra Leone. The reappointment was made on 29 June 2023. Within his first five years, Francis saw remarkable gains in the fight against corruption.
The Anti-Corruption Commission of Sierra Leone is an independent institution that was established to prevent, investigate, prosecute, and punish those who are involved in corruption. Established in 2000, they also lead the fight against corruption through public education.
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2015 Tutu Fellow Landry Signé has authored another book, this one titled Africa's Fourth Industrial Revolution. The fourth industrial revolution - or 4IR - is characterized by an incorporatation of technologies like artificial intelligence, gene editing, advanced robotics, 3D printing and others that blur the lines between the physical, digital, and biological worlds.
It's a field in which he is well-versed. In 2015, Landry was appointed to head Arizona State University's Thunderbird School of Global Management and an initiative at the university called the 4IR and Globalization 4.0 Initiative. He is the Professor and Founding Co-Director of the inititiative.
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- Liberian development bank appoints Christian Allison as new CEO
- Jumoke Oduwole Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
- Marcia Ashong appointed to 2X Global Forum
- Mokena Makeka talks about designing the future
- Cumesh Moodliar appointed CEO of Investec Bank
- Uzo Iweala says The Africa Center can help shape the future of Africa by shaping how people think about Africa
- Chude Jideonwo announces another season of his show
- James Mwangi a featured speaker at the Climeworks Direct Air Carbon Capture Summit
- 'Bosun Tijani moderates the Gates panel - Unleashing Africa's Innovative Future
- Imperial College London features Prof Julie Makani on sickle-cell disease
