Members in the News
Hafsat Abiola, AB '96
Faith Adiele, AB '86
Akudo Anyanwu, MPH '03
Mawi Asgedom, AB '99
Derrick Ashong, AB '97, PhD candidate
Ernest Darkoh, MD '00, MPH '00
Danga Mughogho, AB '94
Bunmi Makinwa, MPA '93
J. Nozipo Maraire, AB'87-88
Papa Ndiaye, AB '86
Cyrille Nkontchou, MBA '00
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, MBA '99
Bayo Ogunlesi, JD '78 , MBA '78
Una Okonkwo Osili, AB '94
Onesmo ole-MoiYoi, AB '68, MD '72
Nana Amma Y. Twum-Danso, AB '94, MD '98
Hafsat Abiola, AB '96
Honoring the Changemakers
Emotional awards ceremony at State of the World Forum - Popular Nigerian pro-democracy activist Hafsat Abiola and controversial U.N. arms inspector Richard Butler were among recipients of State of the World Forum Awards at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel last night (Oct 31). Read more...
Faith Adiele, AB '86
Adiele's Journey Home: Pitt assistant professor of English’s visits to Nigeria subject of PBS documentary
Faith Adiele, an assistant professor of English at Pitt, has a writing exercise that she recommends to students working on memoirs in her nonfiction writing class. Read more...
Akudo Anyanwu, MPH '03
The African connection: Communication, resource network set up for African organizations around the University community
Harvard's African students have created a new network that seeks to link disparate African organizations across the University and become a resource for African students, faculty, and other members of the Harvard community. Read more...
Mawi Asgedom, AB '99
His Story in the Making
Most classmates thought Selamawi "Mawi" Asgedom '99 was just another kid from outside Chicago, a history major and resident of Pforzheimer House. He flashed a 1,000-kilowatt smile, waved to everyone in the Yard, and peppered his speech with hip slang: "What'sup? Yeah? That's cool." Yet Asgedom's story--which he barely revealed before delivering the senior English address at his Commencement--is extraordinary. Read more...
Tragedy is catalyst for success story
Selamawi "Mawi" Asgedom, former African refugee and new author, sprawls on a sofa in his mother's modest apartment in Wheaton talking of hopes and dreams. Crowding a small table is an array of spicy native dishes along with distinctly Western beverages, cans of cold Pepsi and a jug of Sunny Delight. Read more...
Refugee Has Tale to Tell Harvard Peers
Before he falls asleep, Harvard senior Selamawi "Mawi" Asgedom pulls a sheet across his face, a protective ritual he has repeated every night since he was a young boy fleeing strife in his homeland. Read more...
Derrick Ashong, AB '97, PhD candidate
Popular music that belongs to everyone: Doctoral candidate has idea for egalitarian licensing
In his 1970s lament for lost innocence, "American Pie," Don McLean sang about "the day the music died." Derrick Ashong '97, definitely more of a glass-half-full sort of guy, is looking forward to popular music's rebirth, and hopes to perform midwife duties at the blessed event. Read more...
Ernest Darkoh, MD '00, MPH '00
BOTSWANA: Feature - A model for combating HIV/AIDS
GABORONE, 28 May 2003 (IRIN) - Botswana is the first country in Africa to implement widespread distribution of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs through its public health system under a programme aptly named 'Masa' ("new dawn"), a symbol of hope for those living with HIV/AIDS. Read more...
BOTSWANA: More than money needed for successful AIDS programme
GABORONE, 4 Aug 2003 (IRIN) - Among the lessons learnt from Botswana's antiretroviral (ARV) AIDS therapy programme is that money alone will not deliver an effective public AIDS treatment service.
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Africas's New Power Players
by Danna Harman, The Christian Science Monitor
Every year Africa's best and brightest leave their cities and villages for Harvard or McGill University or the London School of Economics. Some are children of privilege. Some are hand-picked by private foundations or donor nations, casting their nets for the next generation of African leaders. Others are sent by parents who have sacrificed for years to send their offspring abroad.
Far from home, they sit through ethics classes, study theories of democracy, pore over law books, use state-of-the-art medical equipment, and talk about coming home and making a difference.
Yet on the planet's poorest and most war-torn continent, there remains a leadership deficit. Why?
The Monitor spoke with more than a dozen of Africa's promising young leaders who studied in the West - from the head of Botswana's revolutionary AIDS program to the founder of Africa's biggest Internet company to a possible future president of Kenya - about their choice to return home. We asked them about giving up a life of comfort for a life of contribution, what obstacles they face, and what they are doing to break the continent's cycle of dysfunction.
For the full story which contains reference to one of our HASAN members, Dr. Ernest Darkoh, visit: http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0930/p01s03-woaf.html
Danga Mughogho, AB '94
MALAWI: Opposition politician arrested over third-term dispute
JOHANNESBURG, 19 Sep 2002 (IRIN) - An opposition leader has been arrested in Malawi, accused of inciting people to demonstrate against President Bakili Muluzi's alleged bid for a third term. Read more...
MALAWI: Muluzi slams donors over third term
BLANTYRE, 23 Sep 2002 (IRIN) - President Bakili Muluzi of Malawi has lashed out at European countries who have called for broad national consultation before the government introduces a constitutional amendment to allow him to run for a third term. Read more...
Bunmi Makinwa, MPA '93
ETHIOPIA: Interview with UNAIDS head Bunmi Makinwa
ADDIS ABABA, 28 November (PLUSNEWS) - Bunmi Makinwa is the newly appointed head of UNAIDS in Ethiopia. Here ahead of World AIDS Day he tells PlusNews that total mobilisation is needed to win the fight against the virus that has infected 2.2 million in Ethiopia. Read more...
J. Nozipo Maraire, AB'87-88
The many worlds of Nozipo Maraire
By Cathy Shufro/photographs by Frank Poole - Most neurosurgical residents are happy just to learn their craft, help humanity and survive seven years of very long days. Zimbabwe’s Nozipo Maraire has other things on her mind as well. Read more...
Papa Ndiaye, AB '86
Papa Madiaw Ndiaye’s Advice: Go Home
By Martha Lagace, Senior Editor, HBS Working Knowledge - In 1995, Papa Madiaw Ndiaye did the unthinkable. He went home. With successful stints under his belt in corporate and international finance at Salomon Brothers and JP Morgan, the Harvard- and Wharton-educated businessman raised eyebrows among his family members most of all. As he reported with wry amusement during his keynote talk at the conference, certain of his relatives in Senegal couldn’t quite accept his decision. Read more...
Cyrille Nkontchou, MBA '00
Internet trading to boost African bourses
Africa is not for the risk-averse but LiquidAfrica.com has made investing easy, writes Julie Walker. Liquidafrica.com - an Internet-based online platform for trading securities listed on Africa's stock exchanges - was launched this week. Managing director Cyrille Nkontchou was formerly the London-based head of research, sub-Saharan equity, for broking firm Merrill Lynch. Read more...
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, MBA '99
It was during the summer of 1998 in Hebron in the West Bank that a pointed question from a Palestinian entrepreneur indelibly defined Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli's future. Read more....
Nwuneli: Raising Next Generation Of Business Leaders
2004-03-19 09:02:20 - Prior to establishing LEAP Africa, a non profit organization with focus on effective leadership, Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli was the pioneer executive director of Fate Foundation. She has promoted leadership and capacity building initiatives in Africa through projects for Harvard Business School, the World Bank and International Finance Corporation. Her numerous international engagements have taken her to the Middle East, East and Southern Africa and the United States. Godwin Nnanna writes on this amazon who was recently recognized as a 2003 Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in Danos, Switzerland. Read more...
Bayo Ogunlesi, JD '78 , MBA '78
CSFB's Global Banking Chief
Catrina Genovese for TIME - Colleagues who have traveled with Adebayo Ogunlesi during his years as a globe-trotting dealmaker have seen him face down bribe-seeking gunmen in his native Nigeria and effect a clever predawn escape from student rioters in Indonesia. But today Ogunlesi confronts a crisis that in many ways is scarier: he's the new head of worldwide investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) Read more...
Most Powerful Black Executives
Adebayo Ogunlesi. Rank: 7. Age: 48. Company: Credit Suisse First Boston. Title: Head of Investment Banking
This Nigeria native and former law clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall has since March been overseeing CSFB's $2.8 billion investment-banking division. He isn't afraid to shake things up: Read more...
Una Okonkwo Osili, AB '94
Young economics professor's research will inform economic policy in developing countries Read more....
Girl-Child Education, Panacea to Development - Don
By Emmanuel Ugwu - May 19, 2004 - All stakeholders in national development have been urged to take special interest in the education of the girl child because it plays a crucial role in the development process. Making the call in Enugu is the assistant professor of Economics at Indiana State University, Purdue, United St ates of America, Dr Una Okonkwo Osili. Mrs Osili said this at the second graduation ceremony of the Ndu, Ike, Akunuba (NIA) an NGO, stressing that it has been proved that education of girls remains the highest investment any developing nation could make. Read more...
Onesmo ole-MoiYoi, AB '68, MD '72
'I wasn't so good at caring for cows'
Ian Sample meets Onesmo ole-MoiYoi, the Maasai cattle herder who became one of Africa's top scientists. Read more...
Nana Amma Y. Twum-Danso, AB '94, MD '98
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
2004 Awards Symposium
Award Recipients Discuss Responsibility in a World of Conflict
The six distinguished speakers at the Radcliffe Alumnae Awards Symposium on June 11, 2004, applied their personal perspectives to the topic of “Freedom and Constraint: Human Responsibility in a World of Conflict.” Each speaker illustrated how her field—whether science, cinema, or classical literature—can contribute to making a difference in our changing, complicated world. Read more...
HASAN Inaugural Business Meeting
Founded 25 years ago, the Harvard African Students Association (HASA) celebrated its anniversary this March by inaugurating an alumni network composed of past and present HASA members. Read more...
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