Ugochukwu Chuwkwujiaka sat down with Brian Rosenberg to discuss his ideas on the purposes of education, and how and why education needs to evolve especially in developing nations.  Brian Rosenberg is currently President in Residence and Visiting Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  From 2003 until 2020, he served as the 16th President of Macalester College.  His articles on higher education appear regularly in The Chronicle of Higher Education and have also appeared in publications including The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.&n ..read more

His excellency, the former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo who served as Nigeria's head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to 2007 is our guest on this episode of Education in Developing Nations. Ugochukwu Chukwujiaka sat down with Chief Olusegun at the former President's premises in Ogun State, we talk about his learning experience as a young man, his time as head of state and President and the work he did in education in that time. Finally, the former President share key leadership insight for leading in periods of uncertainty, how to select the rig ..read more

In June 2006, Dr. Ezekwesili became Minister of Education, Nigeria and led a comprehensive reform program within the education sector including restructuring and refocusing the ministry for the attainment of Education for All (EFA) targets and Millennium Development Goals and reduced the number of out-of-school-children in Nigeria in 2007. Obiageli “Oby” Katryn Ezekwesili who was a candidate for the office of the President of Nigeria in the 2019 election, is an economic policy expert / Senior Economic Advisor, Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative (AEDPI) and Co-Founder of #BringBackOu ..read more

Ugochukwu Chukwujiaka sat down with Fred Swaniker, the founder of African Leadership Group to explore questions about education entrepreneur, the building and running of Africa Leadership University, and the key ingredient of a successful global education company.  Fred is deeply passionate about Africa and believes that the missing ingredient on the continent is good leadership. In line with this, he has co-founded three organizations that aim to catalyze a new generation of ethical, entrepreneurial African leaders: African Leadership Academy, African Leadership Network, and African Lead ..read more

In this episode, George Werner who served in the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf administration as Director-General of the Civil Service and Minister of Education talks about the Partnership School of Liberia, a strategy he initiated to provide effective education for Liberian children. We also discussed other key policies he initiated and insights for education ministers working to transform the education sector. After leaving public service in March 2018, he has used his first-hand knowledge to assist other African and Asian leaders to implement transformative reform agendas aimed at developing human ..read more

Chris Bradford is driven to build transformational educational institutions. Over the past fifteen years, Chris has guided the development of African Leadership Academy, which he co-founded with Stanford MBA classmate Fred Swaniker in 2004. African Leadership Academy seeks to transform Africa by identifying, developing, and connecting the continent’s future leaders. In this interview, Chris breaks down the recipe for creating a world-class purpose-driven institution.  Chris seeks to build strong organizations that transform societies by empowering individuals to reimagine what is possible ..read more

Henry Anumudu and I sat down to discuss his experience at the Teach for Nigeria program. We answered questions like who is a teacher? What is the role of a teacher in a developing community? We discussed ideas on key focus areas in teacher training to improve teaching outcomes in Nigeria public schools ..read more

This is a four minutes trailer of the interview with Dr Dzingai Mutumbuka, the former Minister of Education and Culture, Zimbabwe with the theme Education in Independent Zimbabwe: Lessons for the Future of Education in Africa ..read more

I interviewed Dzingai Mutumbuka, who currently serves as a member of the Governing Board for UNESCO's Paris-based International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) as a representative of the African Region.  For ten years, he served as the Chair of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), a network which brings together all African Education Ministers and representatives of donors supporting the development of education in Africa. Prior to all this, Dzingai Mutumbuka participated in the struggle for Zimbabwe’s Independence rising through the ranks to the le ..read more

Ugochukwu Chukwujiaka sat down with Modupe (Mo) Adefeso-Olateju, the Managing Director of The Education Partnership Centre (TEP Centre) and a policy expert specializing in public-private partnerships in education. They discussed the open letter which Dr Mo sent to her son’s school as a response to the school’s announcement of starting online classes for the new terms. In the letter, Dr Mo proffers four recommendations to consider as the school transition to online learning due to the lockdown in Nigeria. Dr Mo leads the implementation of LEARNigeria; Nigeria’s citizen-led household assessment ..read more