The University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs recently hosted 24 fellows from across Africa for the Mandela Washington Fellowship, a program within the Young African Leaders Initiative, which seeks to build leadership, business, public management and civic engagement for young innovators and leaders.
The fellowship sent fellows from around 19 African countries to the University for six weeks. Alfred Makotsi, a youth advocate for Kakamega County Youth Network in Kenya, said the fellowship program gave him the ability to meet a variety of African leaders.
“This program has been very impactful on all of us,” Makotsi said. “You couldn’t meet 19 nationalities of young leaders who are doing very amazing things back in their home countries.”
According to the Mandela Washington Fellowship, the program has sent around 7,200 fellows ages 25 to 35 from every Sub-Saharan African country since 2014.
