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African MasterClass
Series II

African MasterClass
Series II

Africa's Foremost Online Bootcamp for Social Innovators
and Changemakers.

Africa's Foremost Online Bootcamp for Social
Innovators and Changemakers.

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African MasterClass
Series II

African MasterClass
Series II

Equipping Africa’s change makers through social innovation.

Equipping Africa’s change makers through social innovation.

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The African MasterClass Series II is a five-weeks virtual interview style storytelling series of budding social innovators across Africa.

This series features 12 social innovators who have achieved real-time social impact across their different impact areas. By sharing their journey, key learnings, and gaps in their respective impact area, other changemakers and social innovators will be empowered as they solve the myriad of problems present in the continent.

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lot is happening, yet a lot is not being told. A gap in knowledge exists, yet it is not being filled up. A key goal for this series is to enlighten people on the importance of embracing social innovation to the continent as well as building an ecosystem for these changemakers to access the knowledge they may need to get the job done. We believe that the social innovation space provides is pivotal to the rising of Africa to her relevance in the global space.

This second edition is themed “The Budding Social Innovators in Africa Storytelling Series” and will feature social innovators from the different 15 pillar competencies across the SDG themes who through their work in the African context are creating real-time impact that they will share. All modules are delivered fully online, complete with the Mentor interviews, worksheets and other supporting resources.

Guest Mentors

Gideon Olanrewaju

Funke Adeoye

Temilade Olanrewaju

Chidi Koldsweat

Ugochi Obidiegwu

Jordan Griffiths

Dr Chioma Nwakanma

Mohammad Sabo-Keana

Chibuzor Agomuoh

Babajide Oluwase

Solomon Ayodele

Ife Oyedele II

Curriculum

In a seemingly rushed world where there is the constant hustle and bustle to make a living and perhaps influence or impact others, a small sector of the population are often overlooked. Unfortunately, this sector of the population – children are the future we need to equip and train to live in today’s world as well as be capable of navigating the changes that will come along the way.

In this session, we will explore the importance of capacity learning and key learnings in TheSafetyChic’s social innovation journey.  

Guest Mentor: Ugochi Obidiegwu, TheSafetyChic

Ugochi Obidiegwu is a Social Development Strategist with a specialty in creating products, programmes and providing policy advisory on pressing development issues affecting young Africans. Her major work pillars are around ensuring child safety, reducing substance abuse in youths, and providing strategies for social impact initiatives.

Boys. Men. Patriarchy. These are words familiar to us and have become synonyms for oppression, abuse, and has borne the blame for what the world has become today. However, progress does not come by fighting, rather it comes by fixing what is broken so healing can happen and the society can become better. Fighting the people and not the mindset is futile and will only go so far in the change we want to see.

In this session, the founder of BoysQuartersAfrica will be sharing their social innovation journey, the key learnings along the way and why they do what they do.

Guest Mentor: Solomon Ayodele, BoysQuartersAfrica

To do great work, no one must be left behind. This is not just a mantra of the Sustainable Development Goals but also a reality we need to face if we want the Africa of our dreams capable of competing on the global stage. “No one left behind” means abuse and oppression has to come to an end in our religious and social institutions while the fundamental human rights of every individual is respected. The right to dignity, and standard of living (good education, medical care, security, and social services) amongst others is a given.

In this session, through the social innovation journey of Almajiri Child Rights Initiative, we will learn the key learnings in the work as well as the gaps that yet remain to be filled in this impact area.

Guest Mentor: Mohammed Sabo Keana, Almajiri Child Rights Initiative

Mohammad Sabo-Keana is a Child Rights and Inclusion advocate.  He is the team lead and founder of Almajiri child rights Initiative, (ACRI ) a support and Accountability organization that mobilizes support and amplify the call for education and social inclusion of vulnerable children in Nigeria.

The world has become a global village. Everywhere in the world is reachable through the small device in our hand. While the world continues to be connected, some people are left behind in this connectivity and become increasingly distant from the revolution and change happening both globally and locally. Bridging this gap is no walk in the park and comes with its own challenges and key learnings.

In this session, we will be uncovering the value of collaboration and partnership in scaling the change we want to see through the social innovation journey of AREAi.

Guest Mentor: Gideon Olanrewaju, AREAi

Gideon Olanrewaju is the Founder of Aid for Rural Education Access Initiative (AREAi). He has founded 3 local and global educational non-profits and leveraging traditional media, social-networking and grassroots organising to influence social change. His ultimate goal is to leverage his competencies across the policy, practice and research domains to democratize access to digital learning and revolutionize educational content delivery for millions of Nigerian children leveraging low-cost technologies

Health is wealth. Information is wealth.

With high maternal morbidity and mortality rate in Nigeria and Africa, one would begin to question why myths regarding healthcare still remain especially with the fragility of life and the outcomes that prove them to be myths and not truth. The tales we hear around us and the stories we live every day bears witness to limits of good healthcare awareness we have in our communities, which can be the very measurement of whether a person lives or dies.

In this session with SMILE With Me Foundation, we will be exploring the social innovation journey that led to basic health education online, the key learnings along the way and the gaps that yet remain.

Guest Mentor: Dr. Chioma Nwakanma, SMILE With Me Foundation

Chioma Nwakanma is a Nigerian board certified medical doctor in public health practice. She is popularly known on social media as “Dr Zobo”, for her creative use of social media to influence healthy living by combating health misinformation. She is the Communications director for Medically Speaking Africa and the Founder of SMILE With Me Foundation, an NGO leveraging digital health technology to reduce mortality rates from preventable diseases through impactful women’s health outreaches in low-middle income African communities using health education and health aids as tools.

Sometimes social innovation projects do not start off from personal experiences or passion, it may start off from a stumble into troubling areas and begin to grow like an acorn until it becomes a vital part of the work we do as individuals.

In this session of Tales from the Bars, we will speaking to life stories from bars not from pubs where drinks are sold but bars that imprisons. We will be exploring the social innovation journey of Hope Behind Bars, the key learnings from the journey and how stumbling on a path can make way for hope to others.

Guest Mentor: Funke Adeoye, Hope Behind Bars

Oluwafunke Adeoye is a lawyer and human rights defender working on human rights, social innovation and criminal justice issues. She is the founder of Hope Behind Bars Africa, an organization that provides access to justice to indigent pre-trial inmates, builds the capacity of stakeholders in the criminal justice system and advocates for reforms.

Do you remember the definition of agriculture and farming you were told in your primary or elementary education? Have you had life experience working in a farm? Have you realized that many of the fresh produce from the farm do not make it to the hands of consumers in time and get spoilt?

According to a report by FAO, more than 40% of food losses in Africa occur at post-harvest and processing levels. With 257 million people starving in Africa* (20% of the continents population), one can imagine how much the food wasted at postharvest and processing levels can meet up to the starvation levels and drastically reduce hunger. 

In this session with the founder of Ecotutu, we will explore the gaps that exist in this impact area and the key learning along the way of this social innovation journey.

*- World Vision Organization, 2019

Guest Mentor: Babajide Oluwase, Ecotutu

Babajide Oluwase works at the intersection of urban planning, business, and deployment of clean-tech solutions. He is the Founder/CEO of Ecotutu Limited, a company on a mission to make cooling affordable and accessible to everyone that needs it.

We live in a connected world. The world has become a global village and no place is as far as it used to be because of technological breakthroughs and innovation. In spite of this progress in innovation, there still exists problems that needs to be solved. As myriads of problems continue to develop, there exists a gap in identifying the problem and creatively crafting workable solutions that are replicable.

In this session, we will be speaking with the co-founder of Kobo360 on what is required to identify a problem, leveraging policies and scaling impact.

Guest Mentor: Ife Oyedele II, Co-Founder of Kobo360

Ife Oyedele II Is the Co-Founder of Kobo360. In 2016, he combined forces with business partner Obi Ozor to launch the asset free logistics start up ‘Kobo360’.  Alongside his co-founder Obi Ozor, they penetrated key markets across Nigeria and learned from business owners about the exact challenges they were facing in their distribution chains and how Kobo360 could provide solutions to those problems. This survey helped the company to build a lean but efficient operation which has been affordable for several businesses.

Urbanization has come with a cost which we have avoided thinking it will go away with time, yet time has shown us quite the opposite. As the years evolve and decades roll into centuries, we discover that the earth as we know it is in a precarious state that any generation has ever faced. As with each good cause, it is a fight for what is right; unlike any other fight, this is a fight for the green – plants and trees, a fight for their survival and spread because their existence and spread plays a vital role on what kind of condition the earth will be when the next generation comes on stage.

In this session, we will be speaking with Eco Warriors on their fight for green environment, the journey so far and the key learnings along the way.

Guest Mentor: Temilade Salami, EcoWarriors Nigeria

Temilade Salami is a Nigerian Environmentalist, Circular Economy Enthusiast and Marine Biologist leading on various youth-led environmental sustainability initiatives across Nigeria. She is the Executive Director of “Ecowarriors”, one of Nigeria’s largest networks of professional environmentalists, leading environmental change through tree planting, ocean conservation advocacy, plastic waste management and environmental education in Nigeria.

Legacy is a building block of seemingly “small” actions that have benefits not just for today but for the future. As the years roll by and a new generation springs up, there is a critical need to set up the next generation for the world they are about to take on and that involves asking the question – what can we do today to prepare the next generation for the world they will find themselves in?

In this session, we will explore the important conversation on raising global agents in the world we live in today through the social innovation journey of The Sunrise Youth Intervention Organization.

Guest Mentor: Chibuzor C. Agomuoh is a youth development professional with 17 years of volunteering experience and 9 years serving as Founder and Executive Director at The SunRise Youth Intervention Organisation.

Over the years, the Organisation— SunRise— has implemented dozens and scores of projects in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and The Gambia, equipping thousands of youth with essential life skills to enable them make proper life choices for productive living.

He is a graduate of Human Physiology from the University of Calabar. He holds several certifications in Leadership and Youth Development, some of which include: 

-A Certificate in Civic Engagement from Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA.

– A Certificate in Leadership from Haggai International.

– IREX Youth Essential Skill, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Mr. Agomuoh’s work has received several local and international recognitions, some of which includes:

– Honorary Citizen of Boone, North Carolina

– 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow

– 2019 SDG Champion by Youth Hub Africa

– Top 10 Bible Partner in Africa by the International Bible Society

Mr. Agomuoh is currently the only Nigerian nominated to serve as part of the 2021 IREX Global Mentors/Leaders for the Community Engagement Exchange Program of the U.S. Department of State as part of the team to mentor 130 Civic Leaders from 100 Countries.

Mr. Agomuoh is a Pastor serving under his Lead Pastor at God’s Royal Army Mission, Calabar.

In the words of Malala Yousafzai,

I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard… we cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

How true are such words!

Most African countries today, even with the global civilization, are underutilizing the capacity of the third sector. With the numerous challenges faced in many of the countries in Africa, one would realize that the government is not capable of creating the large scale change we want to see in a short time, hence the need for social innovators. We are stronger only when everyone supplies their strength.

In this session with the founder of Donors for Africa Foundation, we will be exploring the journey into creating change in the continent of Africa by connecting African Social Innovators with results that are replicable, funds, and structure; the struggle of many innovators. We will uncover key learnings along the way and gaps that remain to be filled.

Guest Mentor: Chidi Koldsweat, Donors for Africa Foundation

Chidi Koldsweat is a social innovator that specializes in non-profit management & organizational building, stakeholder management, grant-making and fundraising. She works with government funding institutions, the private sector, NGOs and social impact leaders to break cycles of poverty.

Politics is dirty, so the maxim goes. We forget that politics is change, the very thing we seek every year and hope for with anticipation every election period. We hold the very key to our future, yet we toss it aside and expectantly sit at the door waiting for a “miracle” to happen. We are the very miracle we are seeking, the one we have hoped for and the solution to the future generation’s stability.

Every political position is important and as we get intentional about who we vote as President, we must also be intentional about who we vote at the state and local levels also. Change won’t happen until we begin to take ownership of the continent and rise as leaders, taking responsibility for the future. In this session with Jordan Griffiths, we will learn about the influence that resides in us as changemakers, the places we need to develop and the gaps we need to fill.

Guest Mentor: Jordan Griffiths, Acting Chief of Staff to the Executive Mayor at City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality

Jordan Griffiths is the Policy Advisor to the Mayor in the City of Tshwane, the capital of South Africa. He plays an active role in supporting the Mayor’s office by facilitating policy development in the city. He was one of the lead coordinators in establishing the City’s first Inner City Task team to revitalise the Inner City in Tshwane. He also plays a key role in media and communications support for the Office of the Executive Mayor.

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