Achaleke Christian Leke is a youth civil society activist and peace advocate with over eight years of experience and a record of working with over one million young people in my execution/co-organisation of over 100 youth development and peace building projects.

He volunteers as the National Coordinator of a youth-led civil society organisation called Local Youth Corner Cameroon. He is a member of several youth development networks and organisations, and work in close collaboration with the Cameroon Ministry of Youth Affairs and Civic Education and other development stakeholders. Most recently He was voted the 2017 Avance Media Most Influential Young Cameroonian & the Commonwealth Young Person of the Year 2016, thanks to his contribution to peace and the fight against violent extremism.

His organisation is currently championing youth action for peace and preventing and countering violent extremism. In 2015, he developed a youth peace building training manual and video documentary that has empowered over 20,000 young people both in Cameroon and abroad.  He has an established track record of working and disengaging young people from violence.

In 2017 Africa Youth Awards named him among the 100 Most Influential Young Africans, an initiative instituted to promote African youth movements and achieving and also restoring excellence in the works of young people across Africa.