African Leadership Academy (ALA) seeks to transform Africa by identifying, developing, and connecting a new generation of young leaders who will lead the continent towards lasting peace and shared prosperity for all. Since our inception in 2008, we have worked to lay the foundations of this audacious mission by identifying and developing a group of exceptional young leaders who will work together to shape Africa’s future.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Anzisha Program seeks to increase the number of job-generating entrepreneurs fundamentally and significantly in Africa. We believe that a key to doing so is to test, implement and then share models for identifying, training and connecting high potential, very young entrepreneurs (15 to 22 year olds)–and their parents and teachers-so that many more organisations have better collective success in creating a pipeline of entrepreneurs with the capabilities for scale.
In our mission to achieve this, every year, we select the top African entrepreneurs from across Africa and invite them to be a part of the Anzisha Venture Building fellowship / Scholars Entrepreneurship Fund where they receive funding and access to business support that will accelerate their ventures. We want the stories of these young entrepreneurs to be celebrated, seen, and heard to encourage young people of high potential to choose entrepreneurship over other career options.
The Anzisha program envisions a future where:
- Very young Africans pursue entrepreneurial activities and consider it as an alternative career path.
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Young African entrepreneurs are successful across job-generating sectors because they have access to support that best works to enable their success.
- Young entrepreneurs’ businesses scale, enabling them to hire their peers and create jobs. A future where 1 out of every 5 young entrepreneurs employs at least 3 of their peers.
- Young Africans everywhere are inspired by local role models who are young entrepreneurs or started their journey at their age. Entrepreneurs that they can one day become.
- Parents and teachers support their children and students as they choose to explore entrepreneurship as a potential career path.
