On March 19, 2020, we interviewed our 2019 fellow Brenda Moore on Twitter. She founded KEEP: Kids Educational Engagement Project in Liberia when schools shut down for Ebola. She recently wrote an article about what schools should do now for Coronavirus. Here is a transcript of the conversation! @AspenNewVoices: Hi @liberianjue! Here are my questions. …
BY: Mavis Owureku-Asare Any West African knows that jollof rice is the defining dish on the menu of any home in Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal. This dish made of rice cooked in a spicy tomato stew or sauce is the centre of a long-standing debate between Nigerians and Ghanaians on which country makes the best …
BY: Damaris Matoke-Muhia I was born and bred in the western part of Kenya, an area endemic of malaria. I have been sick from malaria not once, not twice, but more times than I can count. In my village, outbreaks were normal – the entire village would get sick, especially after the rains. I watched …
BY: Akebe Luther King Abia The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, recently declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, has taken the world by surprise. The good news is that tremendous scientific and technological advances have permitted scientists to understand a lot about this virus in a short amount of time. Within just two months of the first …
2020 Fellow Masooma Ranvali is a survivor of FGM and a powerful anti-FGM social activist. On March 15, 2020 she was interviewed by The Independent shortly after the non-governmental organization Equality Now warned that UNICEF data on global FGM rates underestimate the scale of the issue. Masooma uses powerful storytelling to shed light on her …