Meet Aalia Kurji - our new communications manager!
Meet Thuranira - our Human Resources Officer!
Thank you, Dr. and Dr. Duevel!
Academy volunteers Linda and Len from Norway spent a week observing classes, interacting with senior faculty and sharing over 40 years of pedagogical experience with us!
Beginning of term
The Academy will resume online classes on 6 January 2025 for DP1 and DP2 students and on 13 January 2025 for all students. For more information, please contact the school's secretaries.
Jimnah Kimani David: Promoting diversity through sports
“I think one of the biggest assets the Academy has is the diverse cultural background in the student body. Having players coming from all over the world from so many walks of life adds a unique element to playing as a team.”
Coach Jimnah Kimani At the Aga Khan Academy (AKA) Mombasa, Jimnah Kimani David wears a lot of different hats. He is the administrative assistant to the vice principal Diploma Progamme, the assistant sports coordinator, as well as a year 6 mentor. However, he is probably best known on campus in his capacity as the open boys’ basketball team coach.
Early in his life, Jimnah had never planned to coach a high school basketball team. “I was originally going to go into accounting,” he said. “I later realised I wanted to work with people, and more importantly, with children, which is why I decided to go into education.”
However, he was not entirely inexperienced in his capacity as a basketball coach. Before he graduated in 1999, Jimnah had already begun helping out his high school basketball coach at Mombasa Baptist High School. He was initially taken on as an informal translator for their Texan coach, Stan Littleford, but he quickly became a valuable mentor and role model for the younger players on the team. From then, he grew from strength to strength, eventually leading his team to win two national titles as a player, and one as a coach in 2007.
His stellar coaching skills did not go unnoticed. In the 2012–2013 off-season, Jimnah was approached to take on a role coaching the AKA Mombasa open boys’ basketball team. “I felt I had proven myself as a coach with Mombasa Baptist. But they are an established, well-known basketball school. I relished the challenge of taking on a fresh team and starting with them from scratch.”
Jimnah joined the Academy in August 2012. He had learned about the school from his brother Charles Mwangi Waweru, who attended the Academy and graduated in 2009. “What drew me to the institution was the commitment the Academy had to providing facilities for excellent education to students from all backgrounds,” he reflects.
Asad Bogani: The Adventure of a Lifetime
Leaving one’s home and family is a daunting task for any person, but even more so for children. However, the lure of a better education and a new adventure can provide ample motivation for students to leave everything they know and follow their dreams.
For grade nine student Asad Bogani leaving his family and friends in Dubai and traveling to India to attend the Aga Khan Academy (AKA) in Hyderabad was a personal decision rooted in a need to become his own person.
“It was something of a personal decision on my side. I really love Dubai [it is] my home, but I thought I should try something out of my comfort zone. I decided I should be on my own now and live by myself.”
The AKA has allowed students to not only have access to a world-class education but also activities that will help them with interpersonal growth. “I play football, volleyball, a bit of basketball, but my favorite sport is cricket,” says Asad, who is looking forward to playing cricket at the Academy.
Beyond extracurricular activities the students’ time is also taken up by personal chores. “There’s so many activities going on and you have your own life, like cleaning your cupboard and keeping neat; a lot of things happening as compared to my life in Dubai,” explains Asad.
Though Asad is finding lots to enjoy about his experience at the AKA there are always challenges to uprooting oneself from familiar surroundings. “My parents really miss me and I’m really missing home as well, but they’re supporting me and what I’m trying to do here,” he says.
But a little bit of homesickness is a small price to pay for a future that he will now be able to look forward to, one he hopes will mesh his love for sports, especially cricket, with his favorite subject—Mathematics.
“Maths is really fun to do. I’d love to do something related to Maths, like statistics and join it with sports, like a sports statistician, something related to cricket because that’s my love. I’d really like to combine the two of them and work towards making that as my career. After completing my diploma program here I’m aiming for university in England and onto my career.”
With ambitions and an educational foundation that will go the distance, Asad is well on his way to creating the life he’s imagined for himself.
2016 Yearbook Arrives This Week!
It is with great pleasure that The Academy announces the unveiling of its much awaited 2016 Yearbook. The 2016 Yearbook Team has spent 4 months working hard to capture the essence and significance of life at The Aga Khan Academy Hyderabad this year, working with designers and writers, both internal and external. The 2016 Yearbooks will be presented to students, staff and Academy families on Tuesday 31st May at the last Senior School Assembly of this 2015-16 academic year.
Change Makers musical reflects student agency in Junior School
The Aga Khan Academy Hyderabad Junior School put up its annual musical on the evening of Friday 30th November 2018, at its 100-acre campus near Rajiv Gandhi International Airport. Close to 150 students from grades 1-5 participated in the production, Change Makers, which was conceptualised, scripted and directed collaboratively by a team of faculty in the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) at the Academy. The show title was invented by a grade 5 student, Yashita Chereddi.
AKA Maputo Construction Diary March 2019
See the latest construction progess at the Aga Khan Academy Maputo campus.
MYP Residential Service Learning Celebration
On Saturday 28 April from 9:30-10:30 am the year 10 Residential Service Learning students will be sharing their experiences exhibition-style on Tamu Balcony. All are welcome.
