17 September 2007
Addis Ababa — African Leadership Academy (ALA), a South Africa-based pan-African secondary boarding school announced on Sunday it was recruiting young leaders ages 15-17 from across Ethiopia for its inaugural class.
"We are looking for Ethiopia's most promising young leaders - girls and boys - to join our inaugural class," Dean Christopher Khaemba said in s statement.
The statement indicated entry into the Academy will be based on merit alone, without regard to each student's financial means.
"African Leadership Academy's extensive scholarship fund seeks to enable all qualified students to attend," the statement said adding African Leadership Academy seeks to transform Africa by developing and supporting future generations of leaders in Africa's public, private, and social sectors.
According to the statement, ALA will select its first class of 100 students from across the African continent by April 2008, and admitted students will begin their two years at the Academy in September 2008.
At ALA, students will complete an innovative two-year program that combines world-class 'Advanced-level' academic training with a unique curriculum in leadership, entrepreneurship, and African studies.
ALA graduates will attend the world's finest universities and will ultimately form a powerful, pan-African network of individuals committed to creating peace and prosperity on the continent, the Academy indicated.
African Leadership Academy will initially focus our recruiting efforts on a subset of countries that will deliver an inaugural class with broad cultural, ethnic, regional, national, and religious diversity According to the statement.
In addition to recruiting outstanding boys and girls from across Ethiopia, the academy is actively recruiting outstanding students from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, the DRC, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
The ALA admissions process will be "very rigorous," and interested students must complete a written application, write an essay, and submit academic reports from their school.
Finalists will complete a written entrance examination and be interviewed by members of the Academy's staff.
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