YOUNG AFRICA: Educated. Empowered. Unleashed. 6th -14th July 2019 tents About United World Colleges 3 About Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa 4 Welcome to UWC Africa week 2019 5 Past UWC Africa Week Speakers 7 Schedule of events 9 Tin Bucket Drum – The Musical 11 Past UWC Africa Week events in pictures 16 Con 2 About United World Colleges 3 About United World Colleges About Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa 4 nited World Colleges (UWC), is a global Today, over 9,500 students from over 150 countries Welcome to UWC Africa week 2019 5 education movement that makes education are studying on one of the UWC campuses. Over Past UWC Africa Week Speakers 7 Ua force to unite people, nations and cultures 65% of UWC students in their final two years receive Schedule of events 9 for peace and a sustainable future. It comprises a a full or partial scholarship, enabling admission to a network of 18 international schools and colleges UWC school to be independent of socio-economic Tin Bucket Drum – The Musical 11 on four continents, short courses and a system means. of volunteer-run national committees in 159 Past UWC Africa Week events in pictures 16 Since the foundation of the first UWC college in countries. 1962, UWC has inspired a network of more than UWC offers a challenging educational experience 60,000 alumni worldwide, who remain engaged to a deliberately diverse group of students and with the UWC movement and committed to places a high value on experiential learning, contribute to a more equitable and peaceful world. community service and outdoor activities, which complement high academic standards delivered For more information visit www.uwc.org through the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. 3 About Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa Mandela, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and anti-apartheid activist and African National Congress stalwart Walter Sisulu, as well as H.E. Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama, the former President of the Republic of Botswana, among others. Today, many of the school’s students are all too familiar with Africa’s current challenges: poverty, conflict, HIV/ AIDS and a damaged society with a high proportion of orphaned young people. Waterford Kamhlaba’s education programme is specifically designed to aterford Kamhlaba United World College produce graduates who are global citizens of Southern Africa (UWCSA), a remarkable who can make a positive impact on Africa Wand pioneering secondary school based and the world. Students are selected on in Mbabane, Eswatini, is not-for-profit. For over 50 the basis of academic excellence and years it has provided exceptional opportunities for extra-curricular potential, with scholarship academic achievement, personal growth and leadership support vital to ensuring that the development for students from across southern Africa opportunity extends to those who would and beyond. not otherwise be able to attend. The Founded in 1963 with just 16 students, as Southern academic programme is rigorous, building Africa’s first multiracial school, Waterford Kamhlaba on UWC’s pioneering role in creating the UWCSA has successfully demonstrated that students International Baccalaureate, a curriculum thrive and excel in a non-racial environment, educated which rewards academic and societal side by side on equal terms. The school has grown to excellence in equal measure. accommodate over 600 students, and its earliest ideals Through the generosity of American of courage, leadership, equality, personal responsibility philanthropist Shelby Davies, UWC and academic excellence remain at its core. students of limited financial means are When His Majesty King Sobhuza II, the former able to attend US universities on full Ngwenyama of Eswatini, visited the school in 1967, he scholarships. Therefore, a UWC education gave it the name “Kamhlaba”, by which he meant both “of unlocks access to tertiary education the world”, a world in miniature, and also that we are “of without cost for our most disadvantaged the earth”, without distinctions, such as race or religion. students. In its early days, Waterford Kamhlaba UWCSA educated For more information visit www.waterford.sz the children of former South African president Nelson 4 Welcome to UWC Africa Week 2019 The Africa Week 2019 Team From Left to Right: Manuela Salzgeber, (Mozambique/Portugal, WK 2012-2019), Lindani Khoza, (South Africa, WK 2014-2019), Michelle Vilane (Eswatini/ South Africa, WK 2013-2019), Hope Otieno, (Kenya/Tanzania, WK 2018-2019), Alline Ibraimo, (Mozambique, WK 2014- 2019), Ciku Mutahi (Kenya, WK 2019-2020), Charles Ndlovu, (Zimbabwe, WK 2019-2010,) Adikinyi Mallowah (Kenya, WK 2016-2020) elcome to Waterford Kamhlaba’s Reflecting on Ma. Graca Machel’s address during UWC Africa Week 2019 especially the 2018 event, we decided to focus and expand to do so on behalf of my colleagues on the importance of Africa’s youth. Africa’s and all members of the Waterford emerging youth is inheriting an identity never Wcommunity. Welcome to our fifth edition of seen before in the history of the continent. UWC Africa Week - an event that gives us an Having not been part of colonial oppression opportunity to explore Africa and examine the times, we do not know the same Africa as the crucial issues impacting on the continent and one generation before us. Faced with new tensions, through which we get prepared for leadership of new opportunities and a new global paradigm, the African continent and the world as students this year’s UWC Africa is exploring and examining of Waterford Kamhlaba – and in so doing, the how Africa can involve its young people as the school continues to fulfill its historic mandate driving force for sustainable growth in Africa. of laying the foundation for us as students to become responsible citizens who have the skills, Issues such as migration, regional and international knowledge and sense of purpose to provide conflicts, and climate change mean that Young leadership in both Africa and the world. #We are Africans bear the responsibility of developing Kamhlaba! Africa against a backdrop of unprecedented challenges. Shifts in geo-political paradigms What makes this year’s event special is neither and dynamics require a collective of young and because its 5th anniversary nor because it is it skilled innovators to drive the continent forward. continues to live up to its standard in terms of its This year’s Africa Week is providing a platform for outcomes – but what makes this one special is discussing about how Africa’s Youth can navigate because of its theme: Young Africa: Educated. modern global challenges, while recognizing Empowered. Unleashed! This year we are looking Africa’s biggest resource - its young people’s into the social, economic, and political dynamics agency as agents of change and the need to of Africa’s emerging youth demographic within develop a globally competitive, well-educated, the context of a globalising world, and we seek to highly skilled workforce for the continent. We explore the newfound tensions that have come explore the importance and significance of to face Africa’s youth. emerging African businesses and innovators in today’s global society. 5 “Each year 11 million young Africans enter the labour market, but only 3 million formal jobs are created. This deficit of 8 million jobs is a ticking time bomb. … By 2050 given the current trajectory, the number of unemployed and under-employed Africa Youth will surpass 550 million.” Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank We owe it to the generations that came before The week features a multi-award-winning us; we are being called upon to continue from play, Tin Bucket Drum, a Visual Arts Exhibition; where they left off; making our contribution a fireside chat, workshops and the two panel in the context of prevailing challenges in forums, Africa Night, a Town Hall session with the continent. As Frantz Fanon put it, “Each Mr. Thulani Madondo – a community activist, generation must, out of relative obscurity, humanitarian, social entrepreneur and CNN discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” In Hero. Mr. Madondo is the co-founder and assembling here today we are demonstrating current Executive Director of the Kliptown our choice for fulfillment of our generational Youth Program (KYP), a South African youth mission – we are choosing to find answers development organization created to help to the many questions and solutions to the young people from the informal settlement of numerous problems of the continent in our Kliptown and surrounding communities. lifetime; and we say it with utmost humility that: Thank you very much and welcome to the 5th in no other school is this ever possible! UWC Africa Week. #We are Kamhlaba! Being part of the UWC movement gives us the For more information about Africa Week, please necessary skills, values and perspectives that visit: http://uwcafricaweek.org/ will enable us to be pioneers for peace and sustainable development in Africa and the world. Also, as we are a UWC school based in Africa, our theme carries additional significance in creating a platform for Young Africans to talk to Young Africans about what it means to be Young and African. #We are Kamhlaba! 6 Past UWC Africa Week Speakers Mrs. Tsitsi Masiyiwa Mr. Richard Etemesi, Dr Thembinkosi Mhlongo (Zimbabwe) (Kenya) (South Africa) Founder and Co-Chairperson, Higherlife Vice Chairman, Standard Chartered Bank, Africa Deputy Executive Director SADC Foundation Wangari Muikia (Kenya, Mr. Jens Walternman Colleen Lowe Morna UWC-USA, 1996-1998) (Germany) (South Africa) Chief Executive Officer, Gender Links, Founder and Principal Consultant Executive Director, UWC International Global Expertise Consulting South Africa Mary-Jean Moyo H.E. Rachel Odede, H.E. Nicola Bellomo, (Zimbabwe) (Kenya) (Italy) Regional Industry Director for Middle East UNICEF Country Representative, Namibia Ambassador, Delegation of the European and Africa at IFC Union to Rwanda 7 Past UWC Africa Week Speakers Mrs.