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“When starting out, focus on your strengths, not your heart.” - Vodafone Ghana CEO speaks at Ashesi

On Thursday, 25th April 2013, close to a hundred students, staff and faculty gathered to hear Vodafone Ghana CEO, Kyle Whitehill, share life experiences from playing as a professional athlete to his role leading one of Ghana’s telecom giants, [ Read more...]

Food Alert: Ashesi students team up to take on the world's food crisis

In response to a call to action by President Bill Clinton for students to help address the global food crisis, five Ashesi students have teamed up to propose a social enterprise that will help save wasted food and provide it to underprivileged [ Read more...]

Goldman Sachs selects five Ashesi students for 2013 spring internships in London

April 5, 2013 – For the second year running, all five Ghanaian students selected to participate in the Goldman Sachs Spring Internship programme in London were selected from Ashesi. The Goldman Sachs Spring Internship programme is designed to [ Read more...]

Ashesi Professor named 2013 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award (TDIA) recipient

Dr. Ayorkor Korsah, Assistant Professor at Ashesi, has been named a 2013 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award (TDIA) recipient. The TDIA, based on the studies of Harvard Business School Professor Christensen, and led by Tribeca’s Craig Hatkoff, [ Read more...]

Meet Ashesi's new Provost: Dr. Marcia Grant

Ashesi is pleased to announce that Dr. Marcia Grant has joined the university as Provost. In her role, Dr. Grant will head the faculty and all academic matters at Ashesi.Dr. Grant earned a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Swarthmore [ Read more...]

Ashesi hosts 7th annual Career Fair

On 19th March 2013, the Career Services Office at Ashesi organised its biggest career fair, attracting over a 100 recruiters representing some 60 companies from different industries across Ghana and Africa. Organisations present at this year’s [ Read more...]

Ashesi students selected to represent Ghana and Africa at Unilever Future Leaders' League 2013 in Singapore

Three students from Ashesi have been selected to represent Ghana at Unilever’s Future Leaders’ League 2013 Competition in Singapore. The students, Richard Odame ’15, Portia Honu ’15 and Precious Antwi ’15, won the 2013 Unilever Ghana [ Read more...]

IBM Ghana awards participants of first IBM-Ashesi mentorship programme

IBM Ghana partnered with Ashesi in 2012 to begin a mentorship programme that allows the company to engage with Ashesi students, develop ideas around social challenges, and share business expertise. The partnership is the first structured [ Read more...]

Leave a legacy - Ashesi Student Council's tribute to Matthew Taggart, Dr. Astrid Larssen and Professor Nana Apt

Wherever we go, whatever we do; we leave a legacy; consciously or unconsciously. It may be because of something we say or something we do. The way people remember us is a legacy of our presence at a particular moment in time. While some people [ Read more...]

Aptly: Tribute to Professor Nana Araba Apt, by Dr. Lloyd Amoah

Aptly!

Motherly, matronlyMotivator, mediatorSublime thinker, untiring fighterYou gave your all to Ghana, and agreat bit of that to AshesiAs Ashesi tottered, wide eyed infantYou held her hand firmly with soothing [ Read more...]