arambe Endeavor is an Alliance of African students and young professionals attending world-class universities, such as Harvard, Oxford, Beijing, Hong Kong, MIT, Stanford, Cambridge, and LSE. Our mission is to capture, inform and engage Africa’s global intellectual capital in the development of the African continent.

The Harambe Endeavor was conceived by two students from Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) , Okendo Lewis-Gayle and Prince Soko. Prince, a native of Zimbabwe, and Okendo, a product of Costa Rica, Italy and the United States of America, drew inspiration from their formative experience as undergrads at SNHU and from their interaction with African students across the United States, who, like them, shared the "collective frustration of a generation of Africans."

In 2007 Okendo graduated, and had the privilege, as the first black student body president of SNHU, to share the stage with, then presidential candidate, Barack Obama, who famously told the Class of 2007 "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential." Read Associated Press Article here.

Armed with President Obama's inspiring words and the three Harambe Questions; If not Now, When? If not Here, Where? If not I, Who? Prince and Okendo successfully managed to rally African students from across the United States to forge the Harambe Endeavor Alliance.

Okendo's subsequent travels across Europe and Asia have transformed what begun as "nothing but a dream on a piece of paper", into a global action network of young African professionals committed to advancing Africa's interest in Africa and around the world.