This year's Cisco Youth Leadership Award recipient is 2021 Fellowship Alumnus Nkosana Butholenkosi Masuku, Founder and CEO of Phenomtech-Sciency Learning, from Zimbabwe.
Alumna Wins Funding to Scale Plastic Pollution Solutions
2021 Fellowship Alumna Tayba Mohamed Mohamed Hatimy won £250,000 to scale their solution, the #StopPlasticPollution campaign, through the Afri-Plastics Challenge
2023 Alumni Symposium Videos
Want to learn more about the 2023 Alumni Symposium in Boksburg, South Africa? Check out these videos from the sessions.
Meet the 2023 Mandela Day Service Grant Recipients!
Learn more about the 6 Alumni and Alumni teams selected for the inaugural Mandela Day Service Grants.
Fellowship Alumni Attend African Diaspora Investment Symposium
In March 2023, 6 Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni attended the eighth annual African Diaspora Investment Symposium in Mountain View, California.
CJID appoints new programme director
The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) has appointed Akintunde Babatunde, 2022 Fellowship Alumnus, as its new Programme Director to oversee all programmatic work at one...
Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni Convene in South Africa
Hundreds of young African leaders convened in Boksburg, South Africa, from March 12-18 for the 2023 Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni Symposium.
Kunle Adewale Appointed to WHO Jameel Arts & Health Lab Steering Committee
2015 Fellowship Alumnus Kunle Adewale has been appointed as a steering committee members for the WHO-Jameel Arts and Health Lab in New York.
Inside Africa: El Hadji Malick Badji
2018 Fellowship Alumnus El Hadj Malick Badji from Senegal was recently featured on CNN's Inside Africa.
Nkem Okocha is on a Mission to Empower Low-Income Nigerian Women
2017 Fellowship Alumna Nkem Okocha founded MamaMoni, a fintech social enterprise that empowers rural and urban women with vocational skills and mobile loans to start...