Nigeria: Hobbling the Entrepreneuerial Spirit
In today’s economy, it is vital that young people learn to fish for themselves rather than wait to be handed fish by their guardians or society. Yet it is even [...]
Region africa
New Horizons: Malian Women move beyond the Home
In the conservative Muslim culture of Mali, women fulfill their traditional gender roles of raising children, tending the home and working on the family farm. However, increasing internal and external [...]
What Lost Identity?: The Diaspora and Globalization
Most of the 5 million Palestinians are refugees. More than two million live in Western Europe and North America. They left Palestine and the refugee camps where they were denied [...]
The Move Towards Diversification: New prospects in value offer
This article was originally drafted by the African Center for Economic Transformation for the newsletter “West Africa Trends” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. The [...]
Egypt: From Cosmopolitanism to Xenophobia
The focus this month in Future Challenges is on global citizens and migration, and how they are changing the faces of our cities every day. In today’s world travel is [...]
Egypt: Heaven or Hell for Syrian Refugees?
Out of the one and a half million Syrians living in Egypt, more than 300,000 have recently come here seeking a safe haven from the never ending shelling and bombing [...]
The tourism race in the region: More than macro events
This article was originally drafted by Pasko Kisic and the FORO Nacional Internacional as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. It has become usual for [...]
Notes on global migration from a small Slovak village
In the village where I’m living you can meet people from different nations. Mostly Slovaks and Hungarians. A few Czechs, Serbs, some Vietnamese and Chinese. Sometimes Gypsies. And also someone of [...]
The future is social but what of its future?
This article was originally drafted by Odoh Diego Okenyodo and the Centre for Democracy and Development for the newsletter “West Africa Insight” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. From [...]
Tropical Warmth Greets Migrants in Ghana
Migration brings new faces to our cities every day, and takes others away. Successful economies worldwide lure young job-seekers, while many social and economic factors keep (or drive) others home. [...]
Identity Trade-Offs Define Today’s Globalised Citizens
Consistently over the past few months, there have been a slew of Western media articles on what Al Jazeera calls an instance of ‘reverse migration’. Many people who used to [...]
How Innovators Want to Transform African Media
This article originally appeared on PBS.org and was excerpted by the South Africa Node of the Millennium Project as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. [...]
The Win-Win of Improving the Status of Women Employment in Egypt
Bella Abzug, a late feminist activist and American politician is famously quoted as having stated, regarding the equality of men and women in the workplace: “The test of whether or [...]
Refugee brides: the bounties of war
“There are many who don’t wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don’t wish to wake for the same fear.” (Richelle Goodrich) It’s two years [...]
The Politics of Water Sharing in the Nile Basin
The Nile: There Won’t Be Enough for Everybody Is the post-revolution change in Egyptian leadership bringing about a shift in foreign policy towards the nations of the Nile Basin? The [...]
The Challenges Women in Micro Entrepreneurship Face in Africa.
In a recent interview with Arthur Levi – former head of the World Bank’s private sector arm, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Europe. He stated: The key to development in Africa [...]
In Search of Humanitarian Action Plan: Combating Desertification in the Sahel Region of West Africa
This article was originally drafted by Chris Kwaja and the Centre for Democracy and Development for the newsletter “West Africa Insight” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click [...]
Egypt: Let’s play politics not the victim game!
Last Saturday, some Egyptian activists went to demonstrate at the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters. They demonstrated by drawing arrows on the street pointing to the headquarters and proclaiming, “here lies the [...]
Protecting Peace in ECOWAS – A Key Issue For West African States
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) established in 1975 was formed to to facilitate a common socio-economic space for the 15-member West African state which comprises: Republic of [...]
Quality, Sustainability and Resilience – A Must for African Women in Business
According to the Millennium Declaration of September 2000, governments committed to promoting gender equity and women empowerment to combat poverty, hunger and diseases. They also committed to stimulate sustainable development. [...]
The untold story: the disenchantment of women in the Arab World
Look at the timeline of events in the Arab Spring and you will see that women have played a huge role in its development. Yet the contribution women make to [...]
My New Chosen Career… To Be Very Rich
I made a decision this morning, and that is to be very rich. Mind you, I have always wanted to be rich, but this morning I decided on a new [...]
Sierra Leone Women To Boycott Polls Unless Given Right To Own Land
When the Future Challenges Team put out a call for local views on International Women’s Day, I thought long and hard. The first issues that came to mind were African [...]
Nelly Ali: Fighting for Cairo’s street children and mothers
Nelly Ali sometimes carries a magic wand in her bag. She uses Twitter to fundraise for clothes for those kids (Cairo street children and mothers). She’s a strong woman tirelessly [...]
Teen girl raped in Egypt speaks out, defies abuse
There she was, sitting in a sweltering sitting room in Cairo, her scarred face haloed by her Islamic headscarf, her pregnant belly pushing out a bit, her 18-year-old hands resting lightly in her lap. Her name is Ghada, and she is one of the bravest women I have ever met.
