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In the final installment of our special three-part series exploring the global impact of the U.S. Constitution, we bring you inside an immersive constitution-building simulation at James Madison's Montpelier. This episode features interviews with six emerging leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa, participants in the U.S. Department of State's Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). These distinguished public servants share their insights on democracy, civic engagement, and the role of youth in shaping their countries' futures.Building on themes from our previous episodes with Professor Heinz Klug and Dr. Tinashe Hofisi, this episode offers a unique perspective on how America's constitutional journey resonates with young leaders working to strengthen democratic institutions in their own nations. Join us as we explore how the principles of the U.S. Constitution continue to inspire and inform global conversations on governance, rights, and civic responsibility.

In this second installment of our special three-part miniseries on global democracy, Dr. Katie Crawford Lackey interviews Dr. Tinashe Hofisi, a human rights lawyer and constitutional scholar from Zimbabwe. Dr. Hofisi, an alumnus and instructor of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), shares insights from his research on judicial power in a global context. Funded by Virginia Humanities and produced in collaboration with the Presidential Precinct, this episode explores the complexities of establishing and maintaining effective judicial systems, particularly in post-colonial African nations. Dr. Hofisi discusses the importance of judicial independence, the challenges of creating representative courts, and the surprising effectiveness of lower courts in enforcing constitutional rights.

Hey-hey! I'm on the couch with author, Shenise Truesdell. She wrote the book, "Girl, Let Go or Be Dragged." As stated by Shenise, "it's a girlfriend's guide to not getting played or playing herself". Ladies, answer this question honestly: 1. Have you felt foolish or stupid during any phase of a relationship? Shenise will share with us some of her personal journey to help us in trusting our intuition, setting and enforcing personal boundaries, making me earn the privilege of exclusivity to you, and so much more! MORE ABOUT SHENISE TRUESDELL: Shenise Truesdell, the CEO, and founder of Behavior Etiquette Institute, is a Miami native with significant connections in her hometown community. With nearly 20 years of experience as a civil servant and a background in government consulting as a procurement professional, she brings a unique perspective to her work, combining her passion for teaching civility, decorum, diplomacy, and soft skills with her expertise in cognitive behavior therapy, customer service, and life coaching. As a former participant of President Obama's Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) program, Shenise engaged with professionals from diverse backgrounds, fostering her passion for culture, diversity, and promoting social inclusion. She has also contributed to community engagement and youth initiatives as a former board member of United Way, exemplifying her commitment to supporting young people.Shenise holds a master's degree in public administration and a bachelor's degree in legal studies. She is a mental and behavioral health advocate pursuing a Ph.D. in Psychology with a specialization in social psychology. She firmly believes that improving consciousness, employability skills, mindfulness, and social skills can empower individuals to lead happier & healthier lives, form healthy relationships, and positively contribute to society. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brainlove/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brainlove/support

Seydina Ndiaye is a social entrepreneur and socio-political actor working mainly in inclusion, youth development, and democracy in Dakar, Senegal. He also works as a senior consultant focusing on politics and development strategies for digital growth, where he has had several collaborations with those in the Senegalese public sector.Seydina is an alumnus of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, the flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) and completed his program at Kansas State University. He is a civic leadership practitioner and is prototyping a contextualized civic leadership and engagement framework based on African local community organizing activities and spreading local narratives to increase citizen awareness to promote civic engagement, and participatory democracy, especially through digital technology and cyberspace.A Quote From this Episode"And now, our challenge is to prepare...by investing in the young generation by giving them a different way of practicing, learning, and teaching leadership."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeBook: Systems thinking for social changeBook: African Leadership: Powerful Paradigms For The 21st CenturyBook: Navigating Complexities in LeadershipSeydina's Music SuggestionsJ. Cole: Love YoursChronixx: Skanking SweetChronixx: Same prayerChronixx: Jah is ThereSonia Jobarteh: JarabiAshs The Best: Ayway SambaCesaria Evora: SodadeCesaria ft Salif Keita: YamoreYoussou Ndour: Picc MeDidier Awadi: The RootsTabanka Djazz: Silencio Sara Tavares: balance About The International Leadership Association (ILA)The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals interested in studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. Plan for ILA's 25th Global Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, October 12-15, 2023.About The Boler College of Business at John Carroll UniversityBoler offers four MBA programs – 1 Year Flexible, Hybrid, Online, and Professional. Each MBA track offers flexible timelines and various class structure options (online, in-person, hybrid, asynchronous). Boler's tech core and international study tour opportunities set these MBA programs apart. Rankings highlighted in the intro are taken from CEO Magazine.About  Scott J. AllenWebsiteMy Approach to HostingThe views of my guests do not constitute "truth." Nor do they reflect my personal views in some instances. However, they are views to consider, and I hope they help you clarify your perspective. Nothing can replace your reflection, research, and exploration of the topic.

The Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders is the flagship program of the U.S. Government's Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). YALI was created in 2010 and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2020. Established in 2014, the Mandela Washington Fellowship has brought nearly 5,800 young leaders from every country in Sub-Saharan Africa to the United States for academic and leadership training.The Fellows, between the ages of 25 and 35, are accomplished innovators and leaders in their communities and countries..For more information about the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council, visit icfrc.org.

Sinako is a member of the Johannesburg Society of Advocates & holds chambers at Thulamela Chambers. She is an alumni of the University of Free State and holds and LLB and LLM. In 2016 she served as a law researcher to Justice Jafta at the Constitutional Court and went on to become a senior law researcher to Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo in 2017. Sinako's commitment to social justice and passion of uplifting the youth led her to establishing Sinako We Can Movement a registered NPO and empowerment program focussed on mentorship of aspiring legal practitioners. Sinako's accolades include being awarded Mail & Guardians Top200 Young South Africans (2022); being shortlisted in the top 10 for the Mc Kinsey & Co Next Generation Women Leaders Award, a platform which explores the importance of women in leadership; an alumni of Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI); and Top Young Outstanding Young Persons of South Africa Award from the Junior Chamber International South Africa (JCI). Don't forget to rate and review the show. Reach out to us on Instagram @sister_in_law_ and @sinakolindazwe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tebello-motshwane/message

Author of Doing, Being, Becoming: For the Love of the Creative Arts Rita Ezenwa-Okoro is an author and the Founder and Lead Visionary of Street Project Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that uses creative and performing arts tools to facilitate opportunities for youth leadership development, social mobilization, and cross-cultural dialogue in Nigeria. She is also the Principal Communications Consultant of ROC, a strategic communications company that provides business owners access to world-class communication solutions. She was also recently appointed the Executive Director of the Global Play Brigade, a movement of performance activists who use 'play' as a catalyst for softening the borders between us humans. Rita is a Mandela Washington Fellow of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), a U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs program. She is a global fellow of the prestigious International Society of the Performing Arts (ISPA) New York, and the recipient of both the Lagos State Award of Excellence in youth and social development and the Lagos State Award of Excellence in entrepreneurship development. Additionally, she is a recipient of the Extraordinary Women Award in France and Next Generation Leaders Award. She is a graduate of the International Class of the East Side Institute, New York, and has her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Creative Arts from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and her masters degree in Media and Communications from the School of Media and Communications, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria, and a Certificate in Civic Leadership from Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. Under her leadership, Street Project Foundation most recently received the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC) and BMW GROUP's Intercultural Innovation Award in Dubai. Rita is the author of Doing. Being. Becoming. For the love of the creative arts, a book about her performance journey as a grassroots creative youth organizer in Nigeria and published by the New Degree Press, Washington DC, USA. Street Project Foundation https://streetproject.org.ng/author/rita_ezenwa-okoro/ Global Play Brigade https://www.globalplaybrigade.org/welcome-rita-ezenwa-okoro-as-gpb-s-executive-director ISPA.org https://www.ispa.org/page/fellow20_ezenw Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ladyreo/?hl=en Twitter https://twitter.com/ritaezenwaokoro To learn more about your host, Kim Lengling, visit www.kimlenglingauthor.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kim-lengling1/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kim-lengling1/support

Na'ima Idris Usman, cikakkiyar Likita ce da ke jihar Kanon Najeriya, ta yi karatun a tsakanin Najeriys da China. Ta bamu labarin rayuwarta daga kuruciya zuwa girmanta, da ma yadda aka yi ta fara ilimantar da mata ta kafafen sada zumunta game da lafiyar jikinsu duk da cewa furta kalmomin da ke da alaka da al'aura abu ne mai cike da kalubalen a kasar Hausa. Da kuma yadda karshe ta buge da zuwa shirin horar da shugabanci ga matasan Afirka a Amurka da a turance ake kira da Mandela Washington Fellowship da aka fi sani da Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) na shekarar 2022. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/usmankabarahausa/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/usmankabarahausa/support

Chico Amadou is a visionary and daring innovator whom I connected with at Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), RLC in 2018 where he was the lead facilitator for the design driven entrepreneurship class. He is on a journey of self discovery. He has impacted thousands of influential people across the continent - Africa. The word that resonates with him is: PERSEVERANCE. The mindset that consistently pursues the things that one believes in. Mindset of never giving up on what one is pursuing and linking it to the things that matter.

Dr. Alex Gee reflects on a successful meeting with a group of visiting African scholars through the University of Wisconsin. The Mandela Washington Fellowship (MWF) for Young African Leaders is the flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). The program empowers young people through academic coursework, leadership training, and networking. The Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development hosted the Mandela Washington Fellows in a discussion of their work and compared cultural experiences. Read more about the visit. alexgee.com patreon.com/blacklikeme

In Episode 5 of Ekoneni: Street Corner Stories we meet Rethabile Mashale Sonibare. Rethabile is the inspiring founder of the Thope Foundation, which is bringing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education to preteen girls in Khayelitsha, through an after school club that combines robotics and coding, with health and life skills. Rewriting this and other narratives has become Rethabile’s mission — and in the process, she has also become one of the successful black South African women she talks about — applying her ingenuity and heart to changing the world around her. Rethabile is a 2015 Mandela Washington Fellow, the flagship programme of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) that bring young Africans to the US, and she credits the fellowship with introducing her to an Africa-wide network of alumni that is helping to expand Thope Foundation and her new Molo Mhlaba School. Learn more at www.thopefoundation.org and www.molomhlaba.org. Find a full transcript of this episode at www.ekoneni.com.

In this episode, we had the opportunity to interview Victoria Yeboah, a young African leader with the Mandela Washington Fellowship. The Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders is the flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) that empowers young people through academic coursework, leadership training, and networking. It started in 2014 and this year, the Fellowship has provided 1,000 young leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa with the opportunity to hone their skills at a U.S. college or university with support for professional development after they return home. The Fellows range in age from 25 to 35 and have established records of accomplishment in promoting innovation and positive impact in their organizations, institutions, communities, and countries. The Fellows represent a diverse group of leaders from 48 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa and 50 percent of Fellows are women. Each fellow is connected with a local leader or organization for mentorship during the program. We had the privilege of being paired with Victoria Yeboah, a midwife and NGO leader who provides sexual and reproductive health education in Wenchi, a rural town in Ghana. In our "Ask Mabel" segment, Terry Marley-DeRosier, WHNP answers a very common question about bodies after childbirth.

In the second episode of Ekoneni: Street Corner Stories, we meet Cape Town director Shane Vermooten​, who just released his first feature length film and Africa's first medical thriller, BYPASS. BYPASS tackles the challenging subject of organ donation and highlights the underbelly of South Africa’s organ trafficking black market. With only 2% of South Africans on the organ donor list, filmmaker Shane Vermooten hopes to play a role in changing the low numbers of organ donation in the country. Shane is a 2015 Mandela Washington Fellow, the flagship programme of US President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) that empowers young people through academic coursework, leadership training and networking. In 2016, he was named as one of the Mail & Guardian's 200 Young South Africans. Learn more at www.bypassmovie.com. Find a full transcript of this episode at www.ekoneni.com.

She Inspires Her is an online and mobile media platform that shares stories about women entrepreneurs in emerging African markets. Lisa O’Donoghue-Lindy was born in Ireland. When she was 12 years-old, she moved to the United States with her family. After college, she went back to Europe working with major corporations in communications roles. Lisa and her husband have lived in South Africa, Greece and Finland. As we spoke, they are in the process of moving to Namibia. Because she has moved so often, she has done work that can be accomplished from anywhere in the world. In 2014, Lisa and a friend launched a side project called Career 2.0. They wrote stories of women who had experience major mid-life shifts. They featured women, mainly from the US and Europe, who had found a way to live a fulfilling life. It was through this work that Lisa wrote a story about Hyasintha Ntuyeko, and entrepreneur from Tanzania. After the story came out, Hyasintha applied for the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) fellowship. She included the story in her application. When Hyasintha was accepted, she wrote an email to Lisa telling her about the difference that the story had made. This had a profound effect on Lisa. “I made a difference in someone’s life,” she realized. It was at this point in 2016, that Lisa pivoted away from Career 2.0 and to open She Inspires Her, focusing on women entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Women in Sub-Saharan African only own about 10% to 15% of formal businesses. They are stuck mostly in the informal economy. Their businesses are not sustainable. They do not create jobs. These businesses cannot scale and grown. For many women in Sub-Saharan Africa, there are legal, cultural, financial and structural barriers that keep them from owning formal businesses. In some cases, local culture reinforces the idea that the woman’s place is in the home. Women often lack access to education. Women can lack access owning property, which can also block access to financing. Highly successful African women entrepreneurs are often featured in Forbes or CNN Africa. And, there are other women who are incredibly savvy at social media who can tell their stories, However, Lisa says “There’s a real dearth of stories of everyday women in markets like Uganda, Rwanda or Tanzania who are not able to get their stories out. And these women are remarkable. My goal is to get these stories out there so that younger women, or even girls, can read them and see themselves in those stories.” She Inspires Her provides role models, connects women to networks, promotes women-owned businesses and raises awareness to barriers to female entrepreneurs. Their main objective is to share relatable stories that get more women to start and grow businesses in Africa. Social Entrepreneurship Quotes from Lisa O'Donoghue-Lindy “You can’t be what you don’t see.” “Small and Medium Enterprises are crucial drivers of job creation.” “In countries like Cameroon and Ghana, SMEs are responsible for more than half of employment opportunities.” “My objective is to get more women out of the informal sector and into formal business.” “It was in working with her that I realized where I could really make a difference.” Social Entrepreneurship Resources: She Inspires Her: http://sheinspiresher.com She Inspires Her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sheinspiresher She Inspires Her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sheinspiresher She Inspires Her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/she_inspires_her