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Nairobi, Kenya | 13th April: The African Centre for School Leadership (ACSL) took centre stage as lead sponsor, keynote speaker, moderator,  and chair across five days of Kenya’s newest flagship education leadership e…

By Albert Nsengiyumva, Executive Secretary, ADEA Keynote Address at the 1st KEMI International Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, 13 April 2026 Distinguished guests, colleagues, fellow believers in the transformative power of education. …

Thursday, April 2nd, 2026  Building on a multi-year continental effort to map and strengthen school leadership systems across Africa, the African Centre for School Leadership (ACSL) recently completed a critical two-part engageme…

By Caren Namalenya Research Officer, Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA) Across many African education systems, leadership is something one is expected to grow into slowly. Years of service matter. But there is an unintended cons…

By Benjamini Masebo Research Manager, ESSA For many years, countries around the world have been working to improve the quality of education. A key question remains: What does it take to ensure every child receives quality educati…

By Leila Abdullahi Director of Research and Programme Delivery, Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA) Across Africa, school leadership is often framed as “instructional leadership”. But what if the more important question is how leaders…

By Edmund Nibeneeh Aalangdong (PhD), Head of African Centre for School Leadership Research Across Africa, improving the quality of education increasingly depends on a single critical factor: effective school leadership. School leaders…

By Leila Abdullahi Director of Research and Programme Delivery, Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA) Many Communities of Learning begin with energy but lose momentum over time. The difference often lies in how intentionally they are de…

The African Centre for School Leadership (ACSL), in partnership with the African Union and the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, has launched the third edition of the Spotlight Report on Education in Africa. The repor…

Nairobi, Kenya | February 2026 School leadership policymakers, practitioners, and researchers from across Africa validated the findings of the first continent-wide mapping of school leadership initiatives at a workshop in Nairobi from…