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VISION: Tom Ilube

TALENTED STUDENTS from a London school are to join Africa’s most gifted children in Ghana for a week-long educational programme for elite learners.

Five pupils from Hammersmith Academy will take part in an educational programme held at the AITI Centre in Accra, alongside the brightest children, aged between 13 and 16 years old, from Africa.

Hosts, the African Gifted Foundation (AGF), will challenge the students in the areas of encryption, coding, and space science in an attempt test their brain capacity and explore their talents in science and mathematics.

The academy’s creator, technology entrepreneur Tom Ilube, founded the AGF as a means of enhancing educational standards in the continent.

Ilube said: “Some of the smartest young people in the world are growing up in Africa today. We are hugely excited to welcome one hundred of them to our Academy to explore brain stretching ideas and start to bend their brilliant young minds towards building Africa’s bright future.”

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Four million of Africa’s students fall into the world’s top one per cent. There are an estimated 20 million students on the continent who are classed as gifted and talented, however only a quarter receive the support they need to fulfil their potential.

“It is really exciting to be able to inspire some of the most brilliant young scientists from across Africa in our unique programme,” Ilube said.

“Being able to give the opportunity for an outstanding group of London students from Hamersmith Academy to join the students in Ghana and meet their peers from every part of Africa is something special.”

He continued: “Who would have thought that we would have the chance to teach Space Science to a hundred young African geniuses along with a group of brilliant students from London, in Ghana? It’s incredibly rewarding to be a part of it.”

Supported by charities and international organisations, the talent development programmes offered by the AGF are explicitly designed to open up a world of opportunities to young adolescents, by teaching and encouraging them to think outside the box.