Education champion Philip Obaji wins Future Award Africa

GPE media coverage - December 07, 2015 | Source: The Nation

Global Partnership for Education champion, Philip Obaji, has received the 2015 Future Awards Africa Prize for Young Person of the Year, the biggest of 11 awards presented to young Africans for inspiring work in the continent in the last eighteen months.

Read media coverage below:

Obaji, Olamide others win Future Awards Africa - The Nation

Obaji wins the Future Awards Africa Prize for Young Person of the Year - The Gazelle News

Focus areas: Basic education

Regions and countries: Sub-Saharan Africa: Nigeria

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