2019 TIME 100 honoree Fred Swaniker urged everyone in the room to keep doing “hard things” in a powerful toast at the 2019 TIME 100 Gala in New York on Tuesday evening. “All of us who are privileged ...

Fred Swaniker, the founder of the African Leadership Academy, is one of the most influential people of 2019, Mo Ibrahim writes. Africa’s greatest asset is also its defining challenge—its growing ...

Fred Swaniker’s first experience as an educator came when he was barely an adult himself. He was 18 years old when his mother asked him to help her run a small church school she was planning to ...

Fred Swaniker says he isn't a schmoozer: "You probably wouldn't notice me at a cocktail party. I tend to corner one person and tell them my story." Yet this 31-year-old Ghana native has deftly ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has crippled much of the global economy, with potentially disastrous impacts for many African nations. But there are signs of hope, too. Fred Swaniker, a Ghanian entrepreneur and ...

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The Ghanaian entrepreneur and leadership expert is striving to disrupt education with a model that will produce millions of African leaders and jobs by 2035. By 2035, Africa will have the world’s ...

2019 TIME 100 honoree Fred Swaniker urged everyone in the room to keep doing “hard things” in a powerful toast at the 2019 TIME 100 Gala in New York on Tuesday evening. “All of us who are privileged ...