News & Highlights

March 2009

LATEST UPDATES FROM THE SEMINARS

Between September 2008 and June 2009, Fellows of the 2008 Class are breaking up into groups of 3 or 4  and travelling to Aspen, CO or Wye, MD to attend the 2nd seminar  entitled  The Great Values Seminar: Defining the Good Society. This seminar is a 5-day seminar in which the Fellows build their vision of “a good society” by reading, discussing, debating and relating the writings of a wide range of thinkers to their present-day conditions.  Thinkers include Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Hobbes, Lee Kwan Yew, Milton Friedman, Julius Nyerere, Rachel Carson, Ibn Khaldun, Simon Bolivar and others.  The Fellows share their personal thoughts on the proper role of government in society as well as on the sorts of trade-offs they are willing to accept in the name of economic growth and social stability.

The 3rd Seminar that the Fellows will be attending is entitled Leading in an Era of Globalization and will be taking place in Rwanda at the Serena Hotel, Lake Kivu from July 10th  through July 14th. This seminar is a  4-day seminar in which the Fellows explore the economic, political, scientific, cultural and ethical dimensions of globalization.  Readings and discussions cover a wide range of topics including the demands of global capital, the future of the African Union, and the challenge of eliminating corruption, the growth of Asian outsourcing and the importance of financial remittances to local economies.

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LATEST UPDATES FROM ALI EA FELLOWS

In this release, you will find updates about Heri Bomani, Norah Owaraga, Julie Gichuru, Martin Kimani, Dr. Abdul Sebbaale, Elkanah Odembo, Aidan Eyakuze, Wahome Muchiri, Paul Kavuma, Salim Amin >> Read here in full

September 2008

Launch of A24 Media revolutionises African media environment  (Salim Amin - ALI Class of 2002) >>Read the press release

Zimbabwe's new Deputy Prime Minister Prof. Arthur Mutambara is an ALI Fellow (South Africa). Heartfelt congratulations from the ALI EA Foundation.

July 04, 2008

PRESS RELEASE

June 2008

New class list of 2008 fellows released

The ALI East Africa Foundation, in partnership with the Aspen Institute, is committed to launching a new ALI/East Africa class of 24 Fellows in July of 2008 to further develop the needed critical mass of values based leaders in the region. This total cost to launch a new class of East Africa Fellows that will meet four times over two years is US$851,000 has already been raised by the management committee.  We are also engaging the domestic private sector, other international donors, and ALI Fellows for support.

The list of 24 participants from the East African countries of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda is as follows;