In the Rwandan capital city of Kigali, the new African Leadership University (ALU) campus, designed by Boston-based MASS Design Group, looks boldly to the future. The handsome 70,000-square-foot pale tan brick building, one of the firm’s largest education projects to date, cascades down a steep hillside—a roughly 130-foot drop in elevation—connecting outdoor plazas and passageways in a dynamic grid structure. It is a physical manifestation, says MASS founding principal Michael Murphy, of a pioneering pedagogy with one driving goal: to transform Africa by cultivating its next generation of leaders.