“I was teaching finance to master’s students,” he says, “but they couldn’t understand it because they didn’t know the basics. So I went to see the founder of the school, to tell him we needed more teaching hours, and he didn’t listen. And that’s when I decided to create a university in Niger.” That was in 2007, 10 years before Kaneye founded African Development University (A.D.U.).
In 2014, Kaneye came to the United States as part of the inaugural class of the Young African Leaders Initiative. He later received a Fulbright award that allowed him to study for his MBA at Bentley University and for his MC/MPA at HKS. In a design-thinking course he cross-registered for at Harvard Business School, Kaneye met Meredith Segal MC/MPA 2017, who was intrigued by his vision for a new university. SUITE
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