Educating the Next Generation of African Leaders at UBC
“My year at UBC has defined me and transformed my way of thinking,” says Jonathan Abagre, a scholarship student from Ghana. Abagre and classmate Patrice Meteunou, from Cameroon, are the first two graduates of UBC’s MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program, a 10-year global initiative aiming to educate the next generation of African leaders. Read more here…
UBC MCF Graduate Scholar Highlights Ghana’s Forestry Conservation Efforts in Association of BC Forest Professionals Magazine
UBC MCF Graduate Scholar in Forestry, Alesia Ofori, shares Ghana’s Forestry practices in article featured in the Association of BC Professionals Magazine, Read more here…
MCF Graduate Scholar Radio Interview
MasterCard Foundation Graduate Scholar Patrice Meteunou was recently interviewed by Radio Canada. Read more here……
Five Scholars Leading Change in Human Rights, Education and Business
MasterCard Foundation recently featured five scholars that are making change in the areas of social entrepreneurship, environment and human rights. Our very own Blooming Soyinka was featured. Read more here…
Africa Trip Report
This post is by UBC MasterCard Foundation Graduate Scholar, Isaac Jonas. Read Isaac’s bio and the bios of all the UBC MasterCard Foundation Scholars online. As I disembarked from the airplane at Abidjan Felix Houphouet Boigny airport in Côte d’Ivoire I quickly realized that it was going to be a busy week ahead by the huge […]
UBC MCF Graduate Scholar Attends Skoll World Forum
This post is by UBC MasterCard Foundation Graduate Scholar, Isaac Jonas. Read Isaac’s bio and the bios of all the UBC MasterCard Foundation Scholars online. On the 12th of April I went to England to attend the Skoll World Forum (SWF). My experience at the Skoll World Forum can be summed up as a rare […]
Made in Africa: The Beauty Africa Brings to the World
This post is by UBC MasterCard Foundation Scholar, Blooming Soyinka, and was originally published on the MasterCard Foundation’s blog. I remember the day the dean of the University of British Columbia called to tell that I had won the scholarship, and the tears of joy, not just on my face but on my mom’s face. […]
The 2015 Competition for the African Leaders of Tomorrow (ALT) Scholarship Program is Now Open. Deadline to Apply: April 26, 2015
The Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) is pleased to announce the launch of the first competition of the new African Leaders of Tomorrow (ALT) Scholarship Program. Please see below for program information and details on the application process. The 2015 Competition for the African Leaders of Tomorrow (ALT) Scholarship Program is now open. Deadline to […]
MasterCard Scholars Council 2013-2014
This post is by UBC MasterCard Foundation Scholar and Engineering student, Brian Mukeswe. You can read Brian’s full bio as well as the bios of all the UBC MCF Scholars online. The MasterCard foundation scholars council was founded in 2013 to foster productive communication and community building among scholars in different partner institutions. It was […]