Serufusa Sekidde

Serufusa is the recipient of a 6-year full scholarship awarded by the Ugandan government to study clinical medicine with Mandarin Chinese as language of instruction. He is the Co-founder and Director of Seruphine a media production company keen to make African media content that is relevant to local realities. He was selected as Young Leader …

Meet the Fellow

Why Africans should invest more in the living than the dead

In my Baganda community in Uganda, it is believed that the ancestors will bring misfortune on those who fail to attend the funeral of a close family member. Almost every January, one of my new year's resolutions is to attend all the funerals of close family and friends.   Last June, my one and a half year …

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So You Like Bananas? Me Too! Our Speed Date With Global Activists

Earlier this week, we went on a speed date — yes, a real speed date — with some of the most talented change-makers from the developing world. It's the quirky way the Aspen Institute, an international leadership organization, introduces the global development champions from their New Voices Fellowship to the U.S. media every year. Journalists get 7 …

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How China’s Anti-Graft Purge May Shake Its Global Health Work

Chinese President Xi Jinping's pledge to spend $12 billion over the next 15 years to help the United Nations achieve its goal of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 signals that Beijing is eager to claim a bigger role in the world of international development. Yet Xi's pledge, made at the U.N. summit on sustainable development in New …

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