The ALA Scholarship is open to youth all over the world.

The ALA Scholarship is for youth all over the world who are between the ages of 15 and 19.

The Application Deadline is February 29, 2012 -The process can be completed 100%

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African Leadership Academy (ALA) seeks to transform Africa by developing a powerful network of 6,000 leaders who will work together to achieve extraordinary social impact. Each year, we bring together the most promising young leaders from all 54 African nations for a pre-university program at our world-class boarding school in South Africa. At the Academy, students complete a unique curriculum focused on leadership, entrepreneurship and African studies. We then continue to cultivate these leaders throughout their lives, in university and beyond, by providing ongoing leadership training and connecting them to high-impact networks of people and capital that can catalyze large-scale change. We aim to develop the future Nelson Mandela, the next Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and the African Bill Gates and Jonas Salk.

· ALA was founded in 2004 by CEO Fred Swaniker (Ghana), EVP Chris Bradford (U.S.), Acha Leke (Cameroon), and Peter Mombaur(Germany/South Africa).
· Our Advisors and Directors are internationally-recognized luminaries in business, leadership development, education, and social entrepreneurship. These include Tony Marx, President of Amherst College; Temba Maqubela, the South African Dean of Faculty at Phillips Academy (Andover); Margaret Nkrumah, Founding Principal of the SOS International School in Ghana; Ralph Townsend, Headmaster of Winchester College in the UK; Alex Cummings, Chief Administrative Officer of the Coca-Cola Company; Isaac Shongwe, Chairman of the African Leadership Initiative in South Africa; Futhi Mtoba, Chairwoman of Deloitte & Touche South Africa; Derek Schrier, Founder & CIO, Indaba Capital Management; Ed Brakeman, Managing Director, Bain Capital; Hakeem Belo-Osagie, Chairman of Etisalat Nigeria; Sir Sam Jonah, former President of Anglogold Ashanti.

Early Accomplishments
· In June 2006, co-founders Fred Swaniker and Chris Bradford were named Echoing Green Fellows and described as two of the “15 best emerging social entrepreneurs in the world.”
· In September 2007, Cisco Systems launched the Cisco Scholars Program, a US $500K scholarship fund designed to make the ALA experience a reality for a select group of outstanding young leaders.
· By February of 2008, ALA had received over 1,700 applications from students in 36 African countries seeking admission into the first class.
· In March 2008, ALA secured a US $5M loan from the Industrial Development Corporation
(IDC), becoming the first nonprofit organization in African history to receive financing by the IDC.

Recent Milestones
· William Kamkwamba, member of ALA’s inaugural class, wrote a best-selling book about using junkyard scraps to build a windmill and bring electricity to his rural Malawian village. His book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, was named one of Amazon.com’s top ten books of 2009.
· In November 2009, three ALA students were among the top 10 performers in the world on their Cambridge International AS-Level exams.
· In December 2009, ALA was featured alongside Apple Computer and India’s Pantaloon in the opening chapter of Getting to Plan B, a book by Kleiner Perkins partner Randy Komisar showcasing how start-ups successfully navigate alternative paths to success.
· In June 2010, ALA’s inaugural graduating class of 93 collectively generated over US $9.5M in scholarship support and were accepted into the world’s top universities including Cornell (4), Amherst (3), Dartmouth (3), Harvard (3), Stanford (3), Yale (3), Duke (2), Brown, Columbia, MIT, Oxford, and Princeton.

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The Academy is a world-class, pan-African secondary institution that aims to educate and develop outstanding students into principled, ethical leaders for Africa.

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