Interview with Chiwoza Bandawe — Lack of specialist support and growing unemployment are factors in growing mental heatlh crisis, doctors say. Malawi is seeing a sharp rise in suicide rates this year, with some attributing it to the economic stresses of the Covid pandemic. Malawi police service reports an increase of as much as 57% on …
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 …
Regina Agyare is among five hundred young African professionals who have started a six-week leadership course in the US. Listen To Interview >
A MALIAN ENTREPRENEUR ATTEMPTS TO REDUCE FARMER LOSSES IN HIS COUNTRY BY HELPING PRIVATIVE THE RICE INDUSTRY. Aspen, Colo. — At last year’s World Food Prize, Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina, presented on the state of the African agriculture industry. He repeatedly said, “We need to see agriculture in Africa as a business. That …
The Moret girls, Zoe, Mia and Sophie, are given a choice when they turn 5: Have a birthday party of their choice with presents from their friends or have the same party but forgo the presents. This might seem like an exercise in futility for any parent. But so far, the two sisters older than …