ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2025
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 60,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2025 on 7,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 290+ campuses worldwide (less than 5%) were selected to host the 4,500+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT OCHE DAVID ANKELI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
African Leadership University Rwanda | Kigali, Rwanda | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 4, SDG 8, SDG 17 & UNAI 9
" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow because my journey has shown me that there is so much untapped brilliance in Africa that often goes unnoticed because of limited access to resources. My work with AI in underserved contexts showed me that technology is more than algorithms- it must respond to real human needs. I do this work because I want to build tools that prove to every young person in underserved communities that their ideas and talents deserve to be seen, and nurtured. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Ruzivo Research Labs
Ruzivo Research Lab is a student-led AI and machine learning research initiative at the African Leadership University. The lab focuses on developing context-aware, community-driven AI solutions for Africa in areas like healthcare, agriculture, natural language processing, and AI ethics. Our goal is to advance research that reflects African realities and make technology more accessible to underrepresented communities.
About the Millennium Fellow
Oche David Ankeli is a Software Engineering student at the African Leadership University. He is passionate about applying AI and emerging technologies in low-resource settings and underserved communities across Africa. He has worked on several projects, including interning as a Junior Machine Learning Engineer at YUX in Senegal, where he contributed to research on stereotypes in large language models and their evaluation through benchmarking and fine-tuning. Oche plans to pursue a master’s and PhD in AI while building technologies that address Africa’s foundational challenges.
