Mobiles Against Malaria – is a community building effort in one of the very poor outskirts of the Malian capital Bamako, Yirimadjo. Dutch agency IICD is helping a local association [...]
According to the World Economic Forum; Africa is on the brink of a major transformation. Over the last decade, the continent was home to six of the world’s 10 fastest [...]
Modern urbanization in most Sub-Saharan African countries has been dominated by the growth of a single primate city, the political and commercial center of the nation; its emergence was, more [...]
The Malian government had its hands full with the Sahel food crisis. Unable to deal with the concurrent civil unrest in the north, a coup has ensured now that it’s hands are empty. Is Mali’s democracy ruined forever?
I recently got featured on the Christian Science Monitor’s “Thirty ideas from people under 30: The Social Media Stars” blog and was also interviewed for the ONE Blog on “Peering [...]
A mass literacy campaign was started in 1951 as part of an overall community development program in Ghana. The primary aim was to teach [...]
From the recent riots in Angola , Uganda, and South Africa and to fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria, youth unemployment and under-employment is increasingly recognized as a potential trigger for [...]
This morning on the local radio I listened to a program about how China is becoming the single biggest landowner on the African continent in terms of farmland. A couple [...]
Africa is too often used as a blunt weapon to score points in debates about hopeless poverty or desperate need. Many countries have learned from their past mistakes and are [...]
Floods, droughts, desertification, coastal storms and famine are just a few of the impacts of climate change in Africa. Climate change is endangering the lives and livelihoods of millions of [...]
