Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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We caught up with Mastercard Foundation Scholars Itumeleng Sebata, Godbless James and Chibuzor Ndubisi – #Africa’s next generation of transformative leaders: eng.cam.ac.uk/news/meet-mastercard-foundation-scholars-africa-s-next-generation-transformative-leaders

They are each undertaking an engineering-related Master’s degree at Cambridge. Here we find out more about their #research backgrounds, their motivations for pursuing a Master’s at Cambridge, and their thoughts on the ‘Cambridge experience’ and future aspirations.

(0:00) - Intro
(0:25) - Mastercard Foundation scholars overview
(0:57) - Meet Itumeleng Sebata (MPhil in Industrial Systems, Manufacture and Management)
(2:19) - Meet Godbless James (MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence)
(3:22) - Meet Chibuzor Ndubisi (MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development)
(4:45) - Highlights

Credit information
Photography: Nick Saffell – University of Cambridge @cambridgeuniversity | Mastercard Foundation Scholars
Extra footage: Institute for Manufacturing @ifmcambridge | Vitalis Nwn from Pexels (Lagos skyline) | Santos Bryan from Pixabay (Kids running) | Mastercard Foundation Scholars (Wales trip).

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