Fred Swaniker is a Ghanaian-born educational entrepreneur, and the chairman and co-founder of the pan-African education and leadership-focused organisation — The African Leadership Group.
His ultimate goal is to build a network of frontline universities in Africa that can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the best universities in the world.
In 2014, Swaniker launched the African Leadership University (ALU), with Graca Machel as the chancellor.
Two campuses opened in 2016 — in Mauritius and Rwanda. They have 340 students from 48 African countries and will expand enrolment each year. ALU also has a Rwandan-based business school.
His group plans to build 25 universities across Africa. “Each campus will ultimately enrol 10,000 young leaders at a time.”
Swaniker says that from 2018, ALU expects to open three to five campuses a year. For most students, tuition is made affordable through a combination of scholarships and other financing mechanisms.
In 2004, at the age of 27, he launched the African Leadership Academy — a high school in Johannesburg that has leadership skills as part of the curriculum. Its matriculants write the Cambridge examination and achieve a 97% pass rate.
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