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Resetting the African Mindset: LéO Africa Institute Joins the African School of Governance in Kigali

From 25 to 26 August, Kigali will host the inaugural Africa Mindset Reset Forum, a continental convening organized by the African School of Governance to confro...

Communications Team · 16 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Events

The Trust Summit 2026: Why LéO Africa Institute Stands With Nairobi's Global Conversation on Trust

As Nairobi prepares to convene government leaders, regulators, academics and citizens under one roof, LéO Africa Institute sees a natural extension of work it h...

Communications Team · 15 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Africa Champions Network

Building a Network of Transformational Leaders: An Invitation to Build Africa's Future Together

Magnus and Awel have spent years at the heart of the LéO Africa Institute, cultivating the conviction that the kind of leadership Africa needs is not accidental...

Communications Team · 03 Jun 2026 · 5 min

Africa Champions Network

Africa Day 2026: 63 Years of Unity, Integration, and Development — Let's Celebrate Together

At LéO Africa Institute, Africa Day is not just a commemoration. It is a reaffirmation of our mission. We believe that Africa's greatest resource is its people,...

Communications Team · 25 May 2026 · 5 min

Africa Champions Network

A New Cohort Joins the Circle: LéO Africa Institute Welcomes Its 2026 Fellows

On the evening of Friday 15 May 2026, a room full of people who had never met before began to feel like a community. The LéO Africa Institute held its Welcome R...

Communications Team · 19 May 2026 · 5 min

Africa Champions Network

Lead. Serve. Tell Africa's Story.

The LéO Africa Institute and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) in Uganda are inviting applications to our three flagship fellowships designed to develop Africa...

Communications Team · 10 Apr 2026 · 5 min

Africa Champions Network

Joining Africa Leadership Initiative (EA) Fellows in Retreat & Conversation

Ali Mufuruki’s Vision of building a critical mass of Values-based Leaders in Africa came to life at the recently concluded gathering of joint fellows from the L...

Communications Team · 12 Mar 2026 · 5 min

Africa Champions Network

Building Together for Impact: An Invitation to Join The Alliance Circle

A personal invitation from Magnus Mchunguzi and Awel Uwihanganye to Champions ready to co-invest in Africa’s leadership future

Communications Team · 12 Mar 2026 · 5 min

Africa Champions Network

Coming Home to Build: An invitation to all alumni to join and recommit to fellowship, as Distinguished Fellows — and build together for greater impact

As the LéO Africa Institute launches the Africa Champions Network and commits to a bold new goal — 10,000 transformational leaders by 2035 — Magnus and Awel are...

Communications Team · 12 Mar 2026 · 5 min

Leadership

The Burdens of Black Tax | Time to Break Its Chains | Derrick Muganga's Story

I come from a family of brilliance. Engineers who never built, teachers who never taught, entrepreneurs who never launched. Not because they lacked talent—but b...

LéO Africa Institute Communications Team · 22 Jan 2026 · 4 min

Leadership

From Food Science to Finance | Katamba Matthew Kenneth's Story

I trained for years to fight hunger… only to discover that the real famine isn't on the plate—it's in people's pockets, invisible, relentless, and devastating.

LéO Africa Institute Communications Team · 22 Jan 2026 · 7 min

Leadership

You Are the One! | Saxon Ssekitooleko's Story

Imagine, as young Africans, if we had the same resilience about things that concern us here, determined to face our fears and make them work no matter the case....

LéO Africa Institute Communications Team · 21 Jan 2026 · 6 min