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A New Generation Becomes Civic Leaders in Africa<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n
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Post courtesy of the United States Institute of Peace<\/a>. CRCC & USIP partner to run the Generation Change Fellowship Program<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Fred Strasser<\/p>\n

The road to leadership for Imrana, a Nigerian activist, began on a bus in the country’s north, when Boko Haram militants came aboard and picked out passengers to haul into the bush. That was when the 23-year-old resolved he had to do something about his country’s bloodshed. Today, an organization he founded seeks to curb the violence that often surrounds Nigerian elections.<\/p>\n

Imrana told his harrowing story last month in Kampala, Uganda, at a training session for 24 young Nigerian civic activists brought together by the U.S. Institute of Peace’s Generation Change program<\/a>. The initiative helps some of the most accomplished nonprofit and civil society leaders in the Middle East and Africa hone leadership skills and increase their effectiveness.<\/p>\n

The event marked a step forward to broaden the program’s impact<\/a>. This time, 13 fellows from previous gatherings learned how to become Generation Change trainers themselves during a three-day lead-up to the arrival of the new Nigerian members.<\/p>\n