Mandela Washington Fellowship

at the University of Delaware

Category: South Africa

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 […]

The Women’s Rights Movement and Civil Rights Movement in America

10 July 2018: Today we had Dr Kara Ellerby from the University of Delaware teaching us about women’s movements in the USA and Dr Donna Patterson from Delaware State University teaching about the civil rights movement also in the USA. The two lectures took us back in history to when these movements were started in […]

The Morning After the Night Before

Tired from the festivities of July 4th, I stumbled out of bed the next day, looking forward to nothing but reuniting with my pillow later that evening. I got ready to face the day, begrudgingly, motivated by rumors of free coffee and bagels which we expected to receive at our first appointment. The destination was […]

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