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Three CUIB students out of 10,000 applicants from West Africa just won the President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Award. Winners of this award will be part of a 17 weeks training at the Regional Leadership Centre West Africa Cohort 4, Accra Ghana. These students, Jingwa Kakdeu Lesly, Tchokote Herve from the Schools of Business and Information Technology respectively, and Anye Cho Bovinille alumni of CUIB, together with their peers from other countries will be immersed in a unique educational opportunity that embraces learning, networking, mentorship and scholarship of which 5 weeks will be in Ghana at the Ghanaian Institute of Management and Public Administration and two months at their home countries.
According to Tchokote Herve whose project is in the Health Sector, “My selection is thanks to my training in CUIB, which provided me with an enabling environment to develop my capacity as a leader, entrepreneur and academician,” while Jingwa Kakdeu on her part says “CUIB has equipped me with potentials, and quality is all I can deliver.” Anye Cho Bovinille summarizes his selection as “I am who CUIB made me.” The selection of these students comes at a time when many students of CUIB have gone down the annals of most international awards like the Anzisha prize, the Tony Elumelu Foundation Scholarship Award and many others, as academicians, innovators and entrepreneurs with a difference.
The secret of CUIB students being always at the forefront as winners of international awards, can only be explained by its good leadership, effective collaboration with its mentors and partners both local and foreign, professional, competent and dynamic faculty and staff as well as a daily one- to-one coaching provided by the Center for Entrepreneurship, Research and Innovation, (CERI) for its students. CUIB’s international standard and low cost education is one that demonstrates a culture which seeks to inspire and train professional leaders who are fit to compete with their counterparts all over the world as well as impact their communities by creating Job opportunities among other initiatives.
The ‘Mangas bag’ company in Limbe- Cameroon, born by Manga Yannick, alumni of CUIB and 2014 winner of the Tony Elumelu Young African Entrepreneurs program is one of these initiatives. Thanks to CUIB’s unique training, this year, 4 of its students are participating at the Study of the United States Institute for Scholars program(SUSI) organized by the US embassy Yaounde, Cameroon. Two students won the Tony Elumelu Young African Entrepreneurs program while two of its Alumni were among the 5 recipients of 5 million from the 2016 MTN Boost Your Brain Competition in Cameroon.
With respect to the quality of education and success of its students, one can only conclude in the words of one of its alumni, best and most outstanding student during the 2015 Commencement and Founder of GoJamma, a Social Media platform for Networking for Africans who said “CUIB is a Jewel and a top 21st century World class University in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
