Africa Leadership Foundation – Championing a Stable, Prosperous & Inclusive Africa

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WHO WE ARE

Africa Leadership Foundation (ALF) is a civil society organization with a focus on good governance and leadership development discuss; entrepreneurship and digital empowerment; gender equality and research; including the challenges of conflicts and the approaches to Peace and stability in Africa.

Registered as the Africa Leadership Foundation in 1988 with the Corporate Affairs Commission, ALF operates under the Nigeria Companies Act of 1968 with RC Number 115366.

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ALF STRATEGIC PLAN 2026-2030

Africa Leadership Foundation Unveils 2026–2030 Strategic Plan, Reaffirms Commitment to Shaping Africa’s Future

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The Africa Leadership Foundation (ALF) has unveiled its 2026–2030 Strategic Plan, setting out a renewed roadmap for strengthening leadership, institutions and inclusive development across Africa.

The Strategic Plan was formally launched at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, Ogun State, during a global hybrid event convened by ALF’s Founding Chairman and former President of Nigeria, His Excellency Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, alongside the Foundation’s Executive Director, Dr. Olumide Abimbola Ajayi.”

Our Vision

Our vision is to improve the quality of life and performance of Africans and African institutions at all levels.

Our Mission

1. To encourage the diagnosis, understanding and informed search for solutions to local, regional and global challenges, taking into account, their inter-relationship and mutual consequences for both current and future of the continent.

2. To develop, organize and support programmes on institutional strengthening, research, training and capacity development of Africans in order to expose them to the demands, duties and obligations of their various professions in a manner that will prepare them systematically for higher responsibilities and the challenges of an independent world.

What We Do

The Africa Leadership Foundation has three (3) operational arms.

Centre for Governance and Capacity Development

The Africa Leadership Forum manages activities around Governance and Democracy Leadership Development

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ALF Centre for Gender Equality and Research

Coordinates and advances all gender-related activities and interventions of the Africa Leadership Foundation.

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Centre for Enterprise Development

Enhancing entrepreneurship development in Nigeria by training individuals in starting, managing and expanding businesses, and assisting in the facilitation of MSME loans from Commercial Banks…

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The Africa Leadership Foundation has three (3) operational arms.

Centre for Enterprise Development

The Centre for Enterprise Development (CED) focuses on fostering entrepreneurship, digital literacy, and economic inclusion through targeted initiatives. Key activities include skills development programs for individuals and small business owners, startup incubation and mentorship

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Centre for Governance and Capacity Development

The Centre for Governance and Capacity Development (CGCD) promotes good governance by strengthening the capacity of institutions, enhancing public sector efficiency, building capacity for officials and leaders, supporting policy reform and anti-corruption efforts.

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Centre for Gender Equality and Research

The Centre for Gender Equality and Research (CGER) promotes gender equity through research, advocacy, education, and policy reform. CGER conducts research to identify systemic inequalities, organizes capacity-building workshops for policymakers and leaders

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Here are a few of our recent projects.

TESTIMONIALS

ALF in the Eyes of Leaders

“The Foundation has made contributions across a wide spectrum of issues, but particularly in the development of a dynamic civil society, a crucial ingredient in maintaining and strengthening representative democracy

Mr. Kofi Annan

Former Secretary General of the United Nations

“The Foundation represents a unique African initiative to deal with the number of vexing problems that have plagued our continent and bedeviled African leaders and their development partners alike”

H.E Dr. O.K. J. Masire

Former President of Botswana

“I take pleasure in congratulating ALF for the preponderant role it has been playing in raising these issues that are so crucial to the life of our continent and for the timely initiative of organizing this Kampala Forum”

Joaquim Chissano

Former President of Mozambique

“….. activities such as those of the Africa Leadership Foundation are important in helping our governments in the examination of issues and strategies that would otherwise receive inadequate attention or overstretch, beyond practical limits, our existing capabilities”

Sam Nujoma

Former President of the Republic of Namibia

“Africa can go nowhere further from where the continent is today without security, stability, development and cooperation in all its parts and at all levels of the life and work of its population”

Kenneth Kaunda

First President of Zambia

“It is my sincere hope that the in-depth analysis and exchange of views which took place during those meetings and those which will take place in future conferences will enhance Africa’s efforts to achieve faster economic recovery and accelerated development. I therefore wish to take this opportunity to wish the Forum great success in its deliberations”

Ali Hassan Mwinyi

Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania

“The range of issues identified in the (Kampala) Document reflects the aspirations of the government and people of Africa, and when vthe OAU Council of Ministers act, I am confident that the international community will show its solidarity”