Likeleli recently re-launched Inspire Innovation in her home-country, Lesotho. In the past month, she has been working on getting the business off the ground. This week in her life is a reflection of the grit and spirit of a startup founder, mother, mentee, teammate, and ALUSB student. “My reason for doing an EMBA was to […]
A Week in the Life of ALUSB EMBA Students: Energy and Excitement at the EMBA Intensive
Intensives are periodic week-long sessions where ALUSB EMBA students meet in Kigali to learn directly from seasoned guest faculty. They also take the time to reconnect in person with their classmates. Here are some highlights of the recently-concluded October 2018 EMBA intensive. SUNDAY, 28 OCTOBER Kicking off with a schedule overview and course introductions, our EMBA […]
Entrepreneurship and Innovation at ALUSB, with Chidi Afulezi
At ALUSB, we believe that entrepreneurship and innovation are critical paths to the African Century. In the words of our founder, Fred Swaniker, “the challenges that leaders face on the continent are effectively entrepreneurial challenges.” In this interview, Chidi Afulezi, Head Faculty of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation (E & I) course at ALUSB, speaks about […]
A Week in the Life of Hector Chilimani ’19
Hector Chilimani is a Business Operations Project Specialist at One Acre Fund, Malawi. His passion lies in serving his community by equipping and empowering people with the tools they need to solve their problems. Through his leadership style of imparting ownership, Hector is, in his own right, building leaders and problem-solvers for the African century. […]
A Week in the Life of Akua Nyame-Mensah
Akua Nyame-Mensah ’19 has worked in e-commerce for the past four years. She was the Managing Director at Jumia Classifieds, Nigeria and Ghana. For the past few months, she served as the leader at a design and build company. She currently aspires to take an entrepreneurial route starting with career advisory services. Wake up. Stretch. […]
A Week in the Life of Bame Moremong ’19
Bame Moremong ’19 is the Executive Director of Brand Botswana, at Botswana Investment and Trade Centre and a current ALUSB EMBA student. She manages marketing teams and mothers two daughters while studying her EMBA. Her depiction of this week is as true to life as an executive’s existential template. She is customising this template for […]
A Week in the Life of Raoul NdayaEMBAje ’20
Raoul NdayaEMBAje ‘20 welcomed us to experience his life as the Head of Transaction Services Group (TSG) at Ecobank, Rwanda and ALUSB EMBA student. Raoul’s burgeoning career in banking is both inspiring and fascinating as he grew from an early leadership role of data analyst team lead to a transactional products and services expert within […]
Yvonne Gyefour ’20: Two months of Greatness at ALUSB
Yvonne Gyefour (EMBA ’20) is a Customer Marketing Manager at Unilever, Ghana, specialising in the personal care division. She describes her road to ALU, her key learnings so far and her advice to ALUSB aspirants. Get to know and be inspired by Yvonne’s career, her ALU and her legacy! Yvonne’s arrival in Kigali for course […]
A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF ALUSB’s GRADUATING EMBA CLASS
ALUSB’s EMBA Class of 2018 arrived in Kigali for the last stage of their EMBA journey: programme wrap-up and graduation. What did they experience that final week? Here are some highlights of the week: SUNDAY 1 JULY The week opened with an evening reception at 1000 Hills Distillery, which offers one of the most beautiful […]
ZANUDEEN MAKORIE ‘19: LEADERSHIP IS A QUESTION OF APPLYING WHAT WE HAVE
Zanudeen Makorie ‘19 is a lawyer, General Counsel and Company Secretary at RioZim, the largest mining company in ZiEMBAbwe. In this interview Zanudeen talks about his personal leadership journey since joining ALUSB, shares his thoughts on what leadership development applied looks like in his professional life, and highlights some leadership lessons from African leaders that […]
