TOP 3 AFRICAN YOUNGSTERS: PART 3; DALUMUZI MHLANGA, 20, ZIMBABWE

Dalumuzi Mhlanga is a graduate of Waterford Kamhlaba United World College, an honors high school in Zimbabwe.
In 2010, Dalumuzi founded Lead Us Today, a non-profit organization that conducts leadership and empowerment training with Zimbabwe’s youth. He won the 2011 Forbes magazine College Social Innovator Award Winner, and has presented his goals for Lead Us Today at the 2011 Igniting Innovation Social Entrepreneurship Summit at Harvard University

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TOP 3 AFRICAN YOUNGSTERS: PART 2; SAHEELA IBRAHEEM, 16, NIGERIA

At just 15 years old, Saheela Ibraheem was accepted into Harvard University, which makes her among the youngest students ever to attend that school. But that’s not the most impressive part; Saheela was accepted at 12 other colleges, including MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Brown, Princeton, Columbia, and the University of Chicago. In the end, Saheela chose Harvard, based on her seven-year-old brother’s advice.

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TOP 3 AFRICAN YOUNGSTERS: PART 1; KELVIN DOE, 16, SIERRA LEONE

When engineering wunderkind, Kelvin Doe, was just 11 years old, he started scouring trash containers and collecting scraps of metal and electronic parts. Eventually he gathered enough pieces to create mini generators. Totally self-taught, he fashioned together an amp, a mixer, and enough auxiliary equipment to launch a one-person radio station.
He broadcasts news and music to the residents of his childhood neighborhood in Freetown, Sierra Leone. His listeners know him as DJ Focus.

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UNILEVER IDEA TROPHY COMPETITION

Are you ready to elevate you career? Does the opportunity to travel abroad and have direct engagement with Unilever’s top leadership excite you? If you’re the one with that great idea – we want you to develop it with some of Africa’s brightest minds and take it to the next level. Africa’s most exciting business challenge is yours for the taking.

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