Five African universities just won $3 million each to reinvent themselves

At a higher-education gathering in Ghana, the first AHEFT Prize laureates were named: Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering in Burkina Faso, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Uganda's Muni University and the University of Rwanda. Each receives $3 million to deepen reforms in teaching, research and getting students into work. The prize, backed by a $500 million commitment, will honour at least 150 African institutions over the next decade.