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Leadership by ‘followship’: An Ibrahim Fellowship experience at the UN Economic Commission for Africa
An Ibrahim Leadership Fellowship is a unique opportunity allowing mid-career young Africans to be mentored in the highest office of an intergovernmental organisation. The objective of this fellowship is to foster transformational leadership through ‘followship’ in young Africans. The concept is to learn by following, to use observation and… Read more
Defining governance
The concept of governance has a long provenance and can be traced back to at least 400 B.C.E. There is no universally accepted definition of governance, with the parameters of the concept varying according to different institutions: World Bank: “the manner in which power is exercised in the management of a country’s economic and social… Read more
MyAfrica photo competition winners announced
Africa’s future celebrated in thought-provoking and inspiring photographs The Mo Ibrahim Foundation today announced the winners of MyAfrica, a photography competition to capture visions of Africa’s future as seen by Africans. The three winners will each receive a prize of $10,000 USD. The competition, launched earlier this year for the… Read more
Jeri Muchura wins the MyAfrica Professional category
Jeri Muchura of Kenya has walked away with the $10,000 prize money for the Professional category in the MyAfrica photo competition. Jeri is a documentary photographer born and raised in Kenya. She specialises in documenting Kenya’s untold stories, people and environment. Jeri has taken part in two joint photography exhibitions and held her first… Read more
Egyptian Samar Baiomy announced as MyAfrica Amateur category winner
Samar Baiomy, a painter, visual artist, filmmaker and amateur photographer from Alexandria has won the Amateur category in the MyAfrica photo competition. Her passion for painting started in 2009 when she joined the Faculty of Fine Arts at Alexandria University to pursue a degree in Applied Arts. In 2011, she studied video art to further extend… Read more
17 year old South African Phindulo Tshidzumba wins the MyAfrica Student category
Phindulo Tshidzumba, from Limpopo South Africa, has won the Student category in the MyAfrica photo competition. He will share his prize with his school Thohoyandou Technical High School. Phindulo is a self-taught photographer currently studying Mechanical Engineering. He has also enrolled for a graphic design course. Explaining the… Read more
The impact of Afrobarometer data
Since its inception in 2007, the IIAG has evolved to cover more African countries, include new and improved measures from diverse sources of data. For the tenth iteration of the Index, the IIAG contains data from Afrobarometer. Afrobarometer is a pan-African research network, started in 1999, that conducts public attitude surveys on… Read more
Constructing the IIAG
The IIAG is the most accurate picture of what is going on in Africa, based on data, not personal views or political bias. -Mo Ibrahim How the Ibrahim Index of African Governance is built The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) measures the quality of governance in every African country on an annual basis. It does this by compiling data… Read more
The 2016 Ibrahim Index of African Governance: Key Findings
On Monday 3 October, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation launched the 2016 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG). This was the tenth iteration of the IIAG, launched in the ten-year anniversary of the Foundation and in this context, we focused on analysing a decade’s worth of data on African governance from 2006-2015. Since the launch, the 2016… Read more
Safety and Rule of Law and Sustainable Economic Opportunity: a strong correlation
There is a close relationship between Safety & Rule of Law and Sustainable Economic Opportunity: countries which score highly in one of these dimensions tend to perform well in the other. Over the past ten years, these categories have a high correlation (r = 0.85), the highest between any two categories within the 2016 IIAG. This would imply… Read more
