It was the summer of 2014, I was sitting in a boardroom with the air condition on and I was inside sweating. It was a blazing hot outside in the summer heat of London. That day I was waiting for the board meeting of Stonewall housing to start. I had just been recruited as a …
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 …
A few mornings ago, the CDC predicted a worst-case scenario for the Ebola outbreak: 1.4 million cases in 4 months. Now, on the streets, and televisions, and social media sites of America, we hear a rising sense of panic about the one case in Dallas and our safety, yet the real site of terror continues …
Bisi Alimi muss ein mutiger Mann sein. Mit seinem Outing vor laufenden Kameras brach der Nigerianer 2004 ein existierendes Tabu und riskierte damit sein Leben. Er floh nach Großbritannien und setzt sich seitdem von dort aus für die Rechte von Schwulen und Lesben ein. Darüber hinaus hält der 39-Jährige Vorlesungen zur Geschlechterrolle in Afrika und …
Not long ago I came across a picture on Facebook; it was the first item on my timeline. In the picture were three individuals: my Facebook friend, a successful and commendable African entrepreneur, and another individual. Alongside the picture was a caption, which celebrated "the individual," a beneficiary of a brutal military regime. The caption …