DEF Scholar: Anicet Mathieu Fofana
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Home country: Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire
Activities: Football, agriculture
Anicet has an interest in scientific research and development.
Anicet’s Dream:
A very strong belief we all have in my family is to relate all the things or actions we undertake to which will make us proud. I grew up to realize that I actually enjoyed being a man of change. During the 9th grade, my school was renowned for its excellence in the city but yet couldn’t reach its dream of being the top school in the region. I came up with the idea of creating a student council committee which would share with the school its thoughts about different problems faced in the school and would then propose solutions. We implemented a system whereby each time a student performed well, he beneficiated from some financial aid support. This promoted excellence and allowed my school to be the top school in the region.
This is my definition of a leader: “an effective leader is the one who is able to see opportunities of change and improvement around him, grab them, hold them with all his strength, carefully exploit them and positively impact his people”. According to this definition, I consider myself to be a leader. African Leadership Academy provides an environment to learn all that I need to bring about change in the world around me. Ivory Coast is now the second biggest producer of cocoa worldwide. Yet, its economy is still suffering. Why? All the cocoa is sent to the west and we then buy the end product from them in return. My biggest dream is to set up a set of factories that are going to transform the cocoa at home and sell it to the entire world so that profit would be maximized.
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