She is the face of the African farmer: The hardworking woman with a child on her back, tilling the land with a hoe to harvest barely enough to feed her children, who she worries do not get enough to eat. It is a challenge recognized by both the 2014 Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium and this …
In the early days AIDS was a male disease. Long-distance truck drivers, miners, and other migrant workers got it in the cities; gay men contracted it before they knew how it was spread; and people who use drugs found it in their blood after they had shared needles. It seemed that the risks that men …
Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Nairobi slums have never had reliable access to safe water. Unless the government addresses this and other basic needs, life for the city’s poorest residents cannot improve. The slums, where I grew up and now work every …
The next generation of science stars To celebrate International Day of the Girl, CNN’s Leading Women team hosted a Twitter chat which posed the question ‘How can we get girls into STEM?’ on Thursday October 9. The live event focused on the low number of women in STEM with special guests Milka Duno, race car …
It’s Friday, President Jacob Zuma’s not going to #PayBackTheMoney and parliament is paralysed because Thuli Madonsela’s a spy. South African politics is too silly to take seriously, so I’ve hacked into the President’s iTunes account and am listening to his beats. There is a soul classic from the 1970s called ‘If Loving you is wrong …