Founder
President Olusegun Obasanjo

Executive Director
Ayodele Aderinwale

Number of Staff: 16

Mission Statement of ALF

• To foster knowledge and a very sharp consciousness among the new generation of African leaders and to make them develop the culture of transparency and dedication to duty;
  
• To develop on a continuous basis leadership capabilities in Africa with the primary objective of improving output in government, parliament, business and civil society and thus creating the conditions conducive to the development of the continent in an environment of peace, stability and security;
  
• Sustaining the process of political liberalization in Africa; and
  
• Consolidating the capacity of civil society in the areas of crisis management.

Objectives of AL

• To enhance critical analysis of issues based on their thorough understanding and an enlightened search for answers to domestic, regional and global problems, without losing sight of the interrelationship between them;
  
• To encourage as much as possible networking between the young and old generations of African leaders in the true spirit of experience-sharing and with the aim of establishing permanent channels of communication and cooperation;
  
• To promote and develop programs for the training of the successor generations of Africans who would take over the mantle of leadership in public and corporate life, in order to be able to meet the mounting and complex challenges of an interdependent world undergoing rapid mutations;
  
• To foster complete understanding of the crisis of development and generate a consciousness of the socioeconomic problems of development within the framework of national, regional and global aspirations;
  
• To enhance and encourage the culture of informed and dispassionate critique of Africa's social, economic and political problems in a changing world and, from various intellectual and scholastic schools of thought and African perspective, propose solutions to these problems;
  
• To encourage the practice of using new methods for doing things, of enlightened and responsible social engineering and experimentation based on open discussions, transparency, responsibility and accountability with the aim of enhancing the search for appropriate and effective solutions to Africa's persistent social, economic and political problems.

A Brief statement of activities

• Brings together African leaders within the framework of seminars, meetings and personal encounters, to discuss critical issues that may have a bearing on Africa and the possible impact of these issues on the nature of regional and sub-regional African problems;
  
• Organizing activities in various African countries and venues;
  
• Disseminating worldwide findings and proposals on priority issues in order to urge African decision makers and their counterparts outside Africa to resolve problems;
  
• Organizing workshops and seminars at national, sub-regional and continental levels for core young professional and interest groups with the aim of broadening and deepening their contacts and exposure which will subsequently enhance their potential;
  
• Dissemination of recommendations and conclusions of the Forum's conferences and networking with institutions and personalities with a view to soliciting their support, endorsement or ultimate adoption of proposals.

These conferences also seek to foster

• Knowledge and a sharp consciousness among the new generation of African leaders and to make them develop the culture of transparency and dedication to duty, and
  
• Through the Farm House process bring key stakeholders and actors mto discuss issues in an open manner.

The ALF has several publications to its credit. Amongst them are the quarterly Africa Forum

Contact Information
P. O. Box 776,
Ota,
Ogun State,
Nigeria.
Telephone. 00 234 39 722521
234 1 774 8498
234 1 722523
Fax: 00 234 39 722 524
E-mail:info@africaleadership.org
Website: www.africaleadership.org