By Paul Shalala
Congratulations to my good friend Lisa Kwaleyela who has won the 2022 Student Essay Competition in the UK.
The South Korean Embassy in UK in conjuction with the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council hosts a national UK University student essay competition since 2020.
Awards are given in recognition of outstanding performance on essays.
This year, Lisa became the first African student to win the award.
Lisa wrote an essay on Sustainable Peacebuilding on the Korean Peninsula which won her the award.
She is a Lecturer in the Department of Governance at the Copperbelt University and is pursuing her PhD in Area Studies (Africa) at Oxford University.
Lisa and I did the Mandela Washington Fellowship at Syracuse University in New York in 2016.