Mandela Washington Fellowship

at the University of Delaware

Category: Zambia

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 […]

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 […]

Social Entrepreneurship

Oprah said, “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” As we begin this week on Social Entrepreneurship through Civic Engagement, a quote by Oprah Winfrey, whose work has led her into civic engagement issues, seems apt somehow. All throughout last week and this, we’ve been working on identifying […]

My Mandela Washington Fellow Journey

Great experiences do not come easily. I remember receiving an email from the U.S. Embassy last year stating that I was selected to participate in the Mandela Washington Fellowship. It was a great feeling– and I was looking forward to traveling to the USA for the program. Unfortunately, I discovered that I was three months […]

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