Deadline: September 20, 2026.

The goal of the African Leadership Institute (AFLI) is to nurture and enhance leadership capability across Africa, with particular focus on Africa’s most promising young leaders. AFLI’s aim is to create a network of high-potential young Africans who have attended our programmes, and who are expected to rise to top leadership positions in their sphere of activity over the next 5-10 years and be actively engaged in contributing to positive change on the continent. AFLI achieves this through its flagship programme, the Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellowship Programme, which has been offered since 2006.  The programme provides leadership learning activities that enhance selected candidates’ experiences, insights, tools and confidence, and provides a support network that will better enable them to become drivers of the transformation of Africa.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

1. Preferred candidates for the Archbishop Tutu Leadership Programme (ATLP) are people, who, by their actions and achievements, and the values and principles by which they conduct their affairs, have demonstrated their potential as an ethical leader committed to contributing to positive change and development of the continent.
2. They are seeking exceptional emerging African leaders – people who are expected to be the top level leaders in their sphere of activity in the next 5 to 10 years if they are not already in that position, and who are actively engaged in making Africa a better place to live.
3. They will be between 30 and 39 years of age.
4. Candidates can come from any sector of society – business, government or civil society. 
5. Candidates must be citizens of an African country, and must be currently living in Africa, or temporarily placed abroad by their employer or completing further education abroad or working on African projects for a global organisation. They should be committed to living in Africa and to actively contributing to its long-term success. 

BENEFITS

At the end of the ATLP, the Fellow will have achieved:

• A self-formed view of leadership principles and values that are most appropriate to the future African/global context and their own circumstances, which will be the model they can apply to their own leadership endeavours
• Membership of an elite network of leaders throughout Africa and beyond, committed to leading change and development on the continent.
• A breadth and depth of understanding of leadership, built upon academic research as well as the practical experiences of successful leaders, and the complexity of demands on leaders.
• A broader understanding of how leadership functions in the global arena, and the complexity of issues facing global leaders.
• A global perspective on the challenges and application of leadership within an African context, and confidence in the role they can play as a leader in both Africa and the global arena
• Practical experience of leading a project through which they will have enhanced the capabilities or circumstances of at least 25 fellow Africans.
• Interaction with African and global leaders
• A breadth of understanding of the regional and global forces and issues that will influence the decisions and behaviours of future leaders in Africa.
• A broad, systemic, strategic and visionary approach to addressing leadership issues
• Practical experience and feedback from working as part of a team of high-calibre individuals
• A better understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses as a future African leader in a global environment, and an enhanced self-awareness of their leadership capabilities and style
• They will be a more confident and wiser leader, with experiences, tools and insights that will enable them to “play” in both the African and global arenas in the 21st Century.

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