Prominent Gambian Journalist Initiates a Global Mentorship Youth Academy

Mamour M Mbenga, commonly known as Kifa Barham, a household name in the Gambian media, has recently initiated Kifa Leadership Academy(KLA) with a focus on enhancing young people on mentorship and Leadership training.
KLA’s main objective is to address social challenges and constraints young people encounter in their social lives.
The goal of the academy is to promote peace and unity and nurture young people as critical thinkers to solve real-world problems.
Speaking to this medium, he emphasizes the need to work as agents of development to contribute to socio-economic growth.
“The Leadership Academy is a newly established youth group that brings young people from different countries and backgrounds under one unified mindset”.
“The official launching of our activity programs will be scheduled in 2025; as an agent of change, I believe change has to start with making an effort. The academy will also strengthen its partnership programs in other countries like Ghana, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia; most of our members hail from these countries”, he said.
He said the academy has set plans to join other collaborators within the region to cross borders without limitation.
He expressed that KLA has already created an online network group among different nationalities that partake in different professions, including Athletes as well.
He said the academy is a global youth network that brings young people together with great potential and talent.
Adding that “your network is your net worth”.
Kifa further revealed that his frequent traveling across the globe is to search for better networks and opportunities for the social class, especially young people with golden dreams.
Kifa, a youth activist and Sports enthusiast, has been engaged in a series of youth development programs in the areas of capacity-building training, and lobbying for job opportunities for those in need.
On 26th June, 2023 during the Commemoration of the World Drug Day in the Gambia, he was accoladed as the Official Brand Ambassador of the Drug Law Enforcement Agency The Gambia.
Under his mantle leadership on youth matters on drug abuse for more than a decade; he was highly honored by the State Narcotic Agency an event grace by high profile dignitaries from the government, private sector, Security Sector, and the Country Representative from the United Nation Office On Drugs and Crime(UNODC) and among other youth groups.
His effort and participation in youth empowerment have demonstrated a difference among many.
According to records, he facilitated dozens of scholarship opportunities for the social class.
Kifa Barham, fondly called the “Agent of Change” for the past years, had acted with the utmost decorum in the society as a youth ambassador.
Many young people look upon him as a role model and a guidance asset.
Currently, he owns an Online News Network and a Multimedia Company, Africa Citizen Radio.
He continues to initiate his self-help projects, which he uses as an amplifier to inspire and support others with similar visions.
He is the Founder of the Africa Drug-Free Foundation and Africa Sports Agency
He is currently the President of the Egalitarian Foundation, a non-profit NGO that offers hundreds of Scholarships to the youth.