The African Leadership Academy, the university that creates the African elite

In ten years, this school located in Johannesburg has established itself as the royal way to integrate the most prestigious universities and the biggest companies of the world.

The ALA was founded about ten years ago by three students who met on the benches of the Californian university Stanford: the Ghanaian Fred Swaniker, the Cameroonian Acha Leke and the American Chris Bradford.

The institution has privileged partnerships with the Ivy League, the prestigious East Coast University Association (including Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia), the London School of Economics and the University of Cape Town.

Approximately 80% of students enter a university in the United States, and 30% are an Ivy League institution (Frank Aswani, Vice President, Strategic Relations).

Students are admitted through competitions in African high schools identified by a network. Only 5% of students are selected.

The professors come from 25 different countries. About 75% of them are African but some come from the United States, France and Germany.