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Letters from The Fort, the official newsletter of The Fort Institute, redefines leadership. Offering both overlooked conventional insights and challenging your thinking on the unconventional, it pushes leaders to act, not just learn.
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Curated Opportunities, Just for You (opens the original)
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Dear Leader,Every month, we search through opportunities from across Africa and the world to bring you scholarships, fellowships, internships, career programmes, grants, and other pathways worth your attention.Here are this month’s opportunities:UK Government Chevening Scholarship Awards 2027A fully funded scholarship for outstanding professionals to pursue a one-year Master’s degree at a university in the United Kingdom. Chevening brings together emerging leaders from around the world and provi
Leadership Is More Than What You Know (opens the original)
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Dear Leader,Aside from the 11 fundamental rights you were taught in Primary 5 (or the equivalent in your country), what other constitutional provisions around labour, citizenship, business, governance, and other aspects of society do you know? It’s alright. I understand. You are not a lawyer, so you probably do not know. But I bet you know the next one.Do you know that as a citizen of an ECOWAS member state, you have the right to enter, reside, and establish yourself in other ECOWAS member state
Join the Race, Not Just the Pitch (opens the original)
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Over the years, I have come to learn that leadership involves more than attending to present needs. Great leaders are visionary; they see beyond the present and prepare something for the coming generation to build upon. This is, in many ways, what sustainable development is about.Over the last few weeks, discussions around Artificial Intelligence (AI) have continued to evolve. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has argued that AI progress has accelerated dramatically and that companies should slow
The Comfort Trap (opens the original)
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Dear Leader,A few months ago, I was sitting in the sitting room of a brilliant young friend of mine in Lagos.He is a twenty-nine-year-old who runs a software company that handles payments across four countries. His house was an absolute marvel. It was my first time visiting, so I took time to look around and take in the beauty I was beholding. When the power holding company took the light, which it did three times while we were talking, the inverter switched over so seamlessly that the podcast p
Compass and Dividers (opens the original)
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Back in Secondary School, every student was required to own a mathematical set comprising a ruler, set squares, pencils, an eraser, stencils, and, of course, the Compass and the Divider.At the start of a school term, the teachers would ensure that every student had a complete set. Yet, by week two, many of us were already missing our rulers and the short pencil.But do you remember what stayed the longest?Yes. The Compass, and more often than not, the Divider.Of course, I am not really talking ab
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