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July 8, 2013

Editor’s note: Kennedy Odede is the president and CEO of Shining Hope for Communities, a nonprofit organization that fights gender inequality and extreme poverty in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He is a 2013 New Voices Fellow at the Aspen Institute. (CNN) — I had many conversations with Nelson Mandela, although I had not …

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Youth in Africa can Innovate

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June 6, 2013

SPEED READ An entrepreneur in Ghana believes young people can transform Africa through technological innovation Her company is developing web and mobile-based educational tools to train young innovators It also targets the disadvantaged, such as the deaf community, that social networks ignore Nairobi — Young people in Africa can develop technologies to help tackle challenges …