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Reflections from Fellows
Fellows share their experiences and reflections in blog post entries.
Once a Blue Hen, Always a Blue Hen!
All good things come to an end. Journeys will always take you to some destination, a desired position or a vision. The trip to Washington D.C. for the 2019 Africa Business Forum has brought the Mandela Fellows back in the realm of vision. Only this time, the vision was beyond individual, but the Africa we […]
Leaders: Born or Made?
Week 6! As we are approaching the end of our stay at the University of Delaware, all Fellows unanimously agree this journey has been transformative. It’s the beginning of another chapter of the book that we are all writing in our own way, “Improving our community.” As Mandela famously said “Vision without action is just […]
Reflections on Week Three
Community Room 218, 15 Ray Street A, University of Delaware (9pm) – Enjoying African snacks which they brought from the mother of continents, Guerson Neuyambe, Silindile Buthelezi, Agnes G. Chie, Abdallah M. Bourhan and Patrick K. Stephenson, 2019 UD Mandela Washington Fellows, pored over presentations from various academic classes, whilst reminiscing on the exciting volunteering […]
On Conversations and Collaborations
We’ve ended the week still having not had a definition of social entrepreneurship. To be honest, having a definition hasn’t been important to us; what has been important is knowing that social entrepreneurship belongs to that big pool of change-making activities. Outside the social entrepreneurship brain-racking, we had a couple of site visits to various […]