News
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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Chetan Jeeva joined Investec in 2006 as a deal maker in the Structured and Leveraged Finance team responsible for originating and executing large leveraged and structured finance transactions primarily in South Africa. He has been involved in a number of landmark transactions in the SA Private Equity space. Prior to this, Chetan spent a year in Private Equity with RMB Corvest / Safika Investments and in development finance at the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa for a period of five years. Chetan completed his articles with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Ify Malo was most recently the Special Assistant on Legal and Policy Issues to the Nigerian Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance. Her vast experience includes working as a Counsel at Ashoka, Office of West Africa; deputy head intellectual property at the firm of George Ikoli & Okagbue; senior manager at the Negotiation and Conflict Management Group (NCMG); associate at the Boston Public Health Commission; a Boston based Global Biotechnology firm - Genzyme Corporation; adjunct professor at the College of Management at University of Massachusetts Boston. At Genzyme Corporation Ify successfully developed strategic documents used in expanding the Global Market Access tactic in Latin America; Asia, and Europe.
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Currently Deputy Minister of Communication, Science and Technology in the Tanzanian Government and a member of the ruling party's National Executive Committee, in 2014, January Makamba launched his campaign to be elected as the President of his country in 2015.
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Mucha Mkanganwi is the founder and CEO of Pulse Pharmaceuticals. Previously, he was Group CEO of CAPS Holdings Limited, having risen through the ranks over a seven-year period during which he held several different positions spanning financial, operational and business development responsibilities. CAPS Holdings Limited is the largest listed pharmaceutical company in Zimbabwe.
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Samuel Mensah founded and runs KISUA.com, an e-commerce platform selling exclusive contemporary African fashions globally. The site features beautiful, limited-run pieces alongside an online magazine brimming with original stories about African style, music, art and culture. Prior to founding KISUA, Samuel Mensah was Africa Director for Intel Capital (the investment arm of Intel, the computer chip maker), making investments in innovative African technology companies and start-ups.
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Paul Kapelus has a 23-year career in the field of business and society. His focus has been in the natural resources sectors, working with mining, oil, gas, agriculture and forestry. Paul’s work has focused on how companies intersect with development and the strategies that need to be considered, designed and implemented. He has experience in partnership design and implementation, conflict resolution, bankable feasibility studies, social and human rights assessments, sustainability reporting and assurance, design of management systems, stakeholder engagement strategies and plans, design and management of trusts and foundations, training, coaching, and recruitment.
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Originally from South Africa, Robin Perks is Founder & CEO of Aperture Consulting & Recruitment.
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Originally from South Africa,Ndumiso Luthuli is Director of Project Finance and Development at Virtual Consulting Engineers.
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Nonhlanhla Mayisela is a 2014 Tutu Fellow originally from South Africa. She is a member of the South African Property Owners Association and sits on the executive committee of the Women.
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Originally from South Africa, Siza Majola is the Corporate Affairs Executive at ADvTech.
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Originally from South Africa, Tracey Webster is Executive Director of AFLI and is based in Johannesburg.
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In her BBC “Letters from Africa” article, journalist and author, Adaobi Nwaubani comments that regardless of anyone else's opinion of religious leaders, a significant number of Africans have clearly chosen to revere them, and that choice deserves to be respected.
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January Makamba's announcement that he will run for President of Tanzania generates debate on the need for a new generation of leaders, especially after President Jakaya Kikwete’s not-so-veiled public endorsement of his Deputy Minister for Communication, Science and Technology. He spoke to The EastAfrican newspaper.
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- Tutu Fellow Robtel Pailey Discusses the Impact of the Ebola Crisis on Liberia
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- Al Jazeera's Tutu's Children Series: Part 4
- Telling your story
- Al Jazeera's Tutu's Children Series: Part 3
- Al Jazeera's Tutu's Children Series: Part 2
- Al Jazeera's Tutu's Children Series: Part 1