Nelson Mandela RUSI-Brenthurst Africa Excellence Programme

The Brenthurst Foundation is focused on improving African economic performance and assisting in African capacity-building. Co-operation in a number of programmes in the UK and further afield with the London-based Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), the world's oldest think-tank, and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, aims to create:

• First, debate on the link between African development and security;
• Second, a constituency and network for African issues.
• Third, excellence in African and European scholarship.

The Nelson Mandela RUSI-Brenthurst programme will involve three components over a three-year funding cycle starting in 2006:

• Annual Nelson Mandela International Essay Competition on African Development and Security.
• Annual Nelson Mandela African Fellowship. This will allow a single annual research fellow from Africa to spend two months at RUSI in Whitehall, with their research focusing on an aspect of security crucial to African development.
• Annual Nelson Mandela International Lecture on African issues.

Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture on African Security and Development held at RUSI on 18 September