Newsletters

2025 Programme Summary

An overview of the 2025 Youth Fellowship: 14 fellows, seven women and seven men, from civil society, grassroots organising, research, social enterprise, law and policy advocacy, and a hybrid curriculum anchored on leadership, ethical governance and systems thinking.

Highlights and Major Updates for the Year

A year-end update: since May 2022 the Chair has delivered two fellowship cohorts with 29 Youth Fellows, sub-granted four social impact projects and hosted three forums reaching over 400 young Nigerians. It also covers the 19-fellow 2023 cohort and the appointment of Dr Silk Ogbu as Academic Director.

Highlights and Major Updates for the Year in View

An early-2023 look at the year ahead: the biography of Innocent Chukwuma at draft manuscript review, a call for abstracts for a foundational paper on youth leadership and social impact in Africa, and preparations for the second fellowship cohort.

The Journey So Far

How the Chair and Fellowship began: the formal launch on 13 May 2022, the first cohort of 10 Youth Fellows, and a six-month curriculum built on feminist leadership, social inclusion and equality, with mentors, advisers and a youth-led web forum.

Inauguration Communiqué

19 May 2022

A thank-you to partners and friends after the ICSI Chair and Fellowship inauguration on Friday, 13 May 2022, with a link to the event playback.