This is a presentation I gave on the creation of Ashesi University in Ghana, founded by Patrick Awuah, where I have served on the Ashesi Board foundation for 10+ years. I borrowed the content heavily from Patrick and a talk he gave at Northwestern in the Fall of 2014. I gave the presentation to 25 or so Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) fellows who were at Northwestern University in July 2014. YALI is an initiative of USAID. The scholars were amazing individuals from across africa.