Mandela Fellow speaks to Rotary Club, Ellsworth American reports
The Ellsworth American reported Mandela Fellow Koushul Narrian was a speaker at a recent meeting of Ellsworth’s Noontime Rotary Club. Narrian is one of 25 emerging public management leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa that are visiting UMaine for a six-week academic and leadership institute, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. UMaine was selected as one of 37 institutions nationwide as partners with the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Narrian, who is from Mauritius, spoke about the history of his country and its current issues, according to the article. Narrian, who is working on his Ph.D. in agriculture from the University of Mauritius, said the program has given him ideas to bring home. “The program [taught] us how to become better leaders and we can learn technologies from the United States that we can implement in our country,” he said. Louis Bassano, a Noontime Rotary Club member and small-business educator with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, served as Narrian’s mentor, the article states.