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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS! (100 SPOTS AVAILABLE) President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) was launched by President of the United States Barack Obama as a signature effort to invest in the next generation of African leaders. The need to invest in grooming strong, results-oriented leaders comes out of the statistics: nearly 1 in 3 Africans are between the ages of 10 and 24, and approximately 60% of Africa’s total population is below the age of 35. Who will empower and lead these young Africans? Who will shape the future of business and entrepreneurship, civil society leadership, and public sector management? In order to answer these questions, YALI promotes three models designed to identify and empower young leaders: the YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship, YALI Network and now the establishment of Regional Leadership Centres across Africa. Supporting this progress, the YALI Regional Leadership Centre (RLC) West Africa, Accra, ...

Newaccra Magazine released the 2015 edition of the Newaccra Achievers Report, in celebration of unsung Ghanaians making impact and showing promise in diverse fields.   Team lead of Newaccra.com, Eric Kumah commenting on the report stated that, “there are so many unsung people out there doing amazing things. This is our service to such people, and we are happy about the early excitement that our report is generating in the entreprenueral community. It has a deeper meaning for us because we are on a mission to become Africa’s most trusted name in success and personal development”. He ended by appealing to media teams to follow up on the achievers and help promote their work. This year’s report was titled ‘The Newaccra Achievers Report 2015; 30 Ghanaian About To Shake The World’. A total of thirty individuals who are making impact and showing future promise in diverse fields were profiled in the report. This season we at Centerstage Africa also wish to add our voice to the c...

Source: Mobile Web Ghana We had an interview with a budding female game developer in Ghana by name Diana Senakey. She is a graduate of the Ghana Technology University College, where she pursued a degree program in Information Technology. Diana as a child found learning rather stressful hence she wasn’t one of the brightest students in class. Her education in the university now gives her the opportunity to ease the burden of children who have the same problem as she, when she was their age. Therefore she has developed a game, which can be of tremendous help to any child who is struggling academically. Children learn best when they are having fun. That is the philosophy behind this video game; that while they play they end up sharpening their skills and learning something new which will benefit them greatly. Excerpts from the interview: Kindly tell us briefly about your games. The brain game has been categorized into three main cognitive areas thus memory, attention and spe...

                                                     Black woman proves black greatness once again. Gabrielle Turnquest is the youngest qualified barrister in more than 600 years She passed her Graduate Diploma in Law at the tender age of just 17 Miss Turnquest will return to the US to chase her dream of being a fashion lawyer An American teenager has become the youngest person in more than 600 years to become a qualified barrister in England and Wales. At the age of just 18, Gabrielle Turnquest is not even old enough to buy an alcoholic drink in her home town of Windermere, Florida, but she has become the youngest person ever to pass The Bar exams. The average lawyer passes the Bar Professional Training Course at the age of 27, but Gabrielle was called to The Bar last month through the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn after passing her G...