Investing in peace and storytelling

On this year’s International Day of Peace, we released Refugees, Peacebuilding, Security – our drop in the sea of global efforts to ensure peace…

Oct 3 • We Will Lead Africa and Michelle Mocumbi

September 2026

What lies on the horizon

An update on our plans for WWLA’s 10th anniversary celebrations and the launch of Volume Seven: Refugees, Peacebuilding, Security.

Sep 7 • We Will Lead Africa and Michelle Mocumbi

August 2026

Making sense of the world through stories

What’s in a story? To us, our driving force: the narratives that push us forward and guide all our inventions, progress, and visions for the future.

Aug 3 • We Will Lead Africa and Michelle Mocumbi

June 2026

What we took away from Africa Day 2026

Sixty-three years since the Organization of African Unity was formed, how much closer are we to a free, united, and self-governing Africa?

Jun 14 • We Will Lead Africa and Michelle Mocumbi

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May 2026

We are the leaders we are waiting for

What does it mean to belong? How can we better love on each other? What kind of leaders does Africa need to become more unified?

May 9 • We Will Lead Africa

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April 2026

Curating spaces for healing and joy

How Volume Two: Women affirmed We Will Lead Africa as a space for healing and joyful practice.

Apr 11 • We Will Lead Africa

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March 2026

Putting things out into the world

A retrospective on Volume One and how it shaped the volumes that followed.

Mar 20 • We Will Lead Africa

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February 2026

Looking to the future

What lies ahead for the continent and We Will Lead Africa in 2026?

Feb 6 • We Will Lead Africa and Michelle Mocumbi

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December 2025

Learning from the We Will Lead Africa journey

As we prepared the calls for our two upcoming volumes, we uncovered what this journey has taught us and our contributors about African leadership.

Dec 10, 2025 • We Will Lead Africa and Michelle Mocumbi

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November 2025

Seeing African leadership

WWLA has become a living, breathing movement. Beyond the numbers, its outcomes and impacts are both tangible and intangible, deeply rooted in the…

Nov 2, 2025 • We Will Lead Africa and Michelle Mocumbi

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October 2025

Listening for Africa’s call

As the fractures in our systems deepen, we feel pulled to recentre, to tune in to what African leaders are currently being called to do.

Oct 13, 2025 • We Will Lead Africa and Michelle Mocumbi

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September 2025

Choosing how Africa will lead

The global system is failing, but within this rupture lies a profound opportunity for Africa to lead in numbers, vision, values, and innovation. The…

Sep 6, 2025 • We Will Lead Africa and Michelle Mocumbi

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