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Young African Library Leaders Fellowship

YALLF 2022 Spotlight: Why Aina Sakaria Joined the Fellowship

  • Across Africa

Aina Megameno Sakaria, a young librarian from Namibia, joined the 2022 Young African Library Leaders Fellowship with a purposeful and clear objective: to acquire the practical skills and knowledge needed to develop library initiatives that directly impact her community.

For Aina, the fellowship represented a vital bridge between traditional librarianship and modern community development. Her work is guided by a deep commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, ensuring that every initiative she undertakes contributes not just to her local library but to the broader national and global development agenda.

Her story reflects a core principle of the YALLF program: that by investing in individual library leaders, the entire ecosystem grows stronger, transforming local information centres into engines for social, digital, and educational progress.

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