Recently, the United States Consulate General in Nigeria, in collaboration with Tender Arts Nigeria, unveiled an “Arts and Medicine Innovation Hub” hosted at the Federal...
500 Women with Disabilities Supported Through U.S. Government Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund
Project Enable, a program supported by the Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund has trained 500 women with disabilities and caregivers in entrepreneurial and digital marketing skills...
How Mabenge made history when he set out to be himself
2017 Fellowship Alumnus Landa Mabenge made history in 2014 when he became the first known transgender man in South Africa to have his surgeries funded....
Fellowship Alumni Featured in One Young World 2020 Annual Impact Report
We are proud that 8 Fellowship Alumni were featured in One Young World's 2020 Annual Impact Report. One Young World is a global forum that...
Preserving Folklore Through the Art of Storytelling
As a storyteller and artist, 2019 Fellowship Alumna Elizabeth Mwambulukutu of Tanzania collaborates with tribal leaders in eastern Tanzania to record local folklore through her...
A Free and Fair Media Starts With Us
Margaret Lole, a 2019 Fellowship Alumna from South Sudan, believes that it is up to young people to ensure that their countries have a free...
Voices of Exchange Podcast: From Bullets to Books
On this episode, 2018 Fellowship Alumnus Jok Abraham Thon, founder and director of Promised Land Secondary School in South Sudan, shares how he is advancing...
Reciprocal Exchange Participants and Fellowship Alumni Awarded Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund (CDAF)
The Mandela Washington Fellowship is proud that 28 Fellowship Alumni and Reciprocal Exchange participants were awarded the Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund.
Tanzania’s First Female President and a Renewed Hope for Widows’ Rights
Tanzania is in a new chapter of leadership under the first female President in the person of the distinguished Samia Suluhu Hassan. She is often...
Opening up the tech space for girls in Samburu
Janet Leparteleg, 2018 Fellowship Alumna from Kenya, founded Butterfly Techies, a community-based organization in Samburu which trains girls to take up Science, Technology, Engineering and...