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Student Profiles
African Leadership Academy’s inaugural class includes impressive young leaders from a wide range
of backgrounds across Africa and around the world. Each has been selected according to African
Leadership Academy’s five selection criteria: academic achievement, leadership potential,
entrepreneurial spirit, passion for Africa, and commitment to service.
We encourage you to read the profiles below and discover just a few of the young leaders in
the class of 2008. Like their classmates, each of these young people has the potential to truly
transform Africa and the world.
Malawi
Built a windmill to provide electricity to his family’s home
South Africa
Assumed role of mathematics teacher at her high school
Kenya
Established "A Book for Change" to provide books to Kenyan schoolchildren
Arkanjelo Paul Lorem
Sudan
Refugee who became a top performer at one of Kenya's leading high schools
Jihad Hajjouji
Morocco
Teaches
peers and senior citizens in the USA about Morocco and the Arab
world
Built an agricultural business to create sustainable income for an orphaned family
Led development of several new extracurricular activities at his school
Martial arts champion who uses theatre to create social change
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Mehdi Oulmakki
