Blogs & Updates
Promising Cameroonian Entrepreneurs
It is about time that Cameroon be placed on the world stage. This year I was blessed to travel back to Cameroon after 9 years. I was amazed, beyond my expectations, about the entrepreneurial movement amongst the youths and young adults in Cameroon. It was such a...
Personal Stocktaking
Article written by Likeleli M. Monyamane. What does "take stock" mean: During an audit project we would periodically have "taking stock meetings" during which each person would give an update on what they are busy with, what challenges/findings they had made and what...
Growing Old in Sudan
By Reem Gaafar The young lady delicately adjusted her multicoloured tob and dabbed at her multicoloured face, looked down at her notes, and cleared her throat. ‘These days, doctora,’ she chirped at her middle-aged scholarly guest, ‘we bear witness to a certain...
Esther Kalenzi: Beauty In Giving
By Kye Makyeli “Be the change that you would wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi. Esther Kalenzi is the brain behind the 40 days over 40 smiles Foundation. From fundraising for the construction of a dormitory to ‘pimping’ a children’s playground, Kalenzi and a...
Africa and The Abused Woman Complex
Article is by C.J Npowa Doesn't it just amaze you that women who have been abused but only to come out about it decades later, whether they were abused by a family member, a friend or a community leader. Doesn't it just amaze you that people always cross examine the...
Ebola: Diaspora Needs To Act
In my previous article, I talked about how the African Diaspora is failing in responding to Ebola. While we are hopeful about Liberia, we are seeing a rise of cases in Sierra Leone- a country that we thought was out of the red. Frustratingly so, the zeal we saw in...
Cultural Appropriation: Nothing But Blurred Lines
By Attiya Karodia The topic of Cultural Appropriation is touchy to say the least, but the more I encounter what would be deemed by the masses as unacceptable, the more confused I become about the more subtle offences that slip by, and furthermore, whether there are...
African Women to Watch on Bloomberg TV Africa
This is not a new list made by Forbes, keep calm and breathe! Rather, it is a very interesting monthly show on Bloomberg TV Africa. If you are in the Banking industry, you know all about Bloomberg, which is a privately held financial software, data and media company...
Ebola: We Are Failing Our Fellow Africans
“Do You Know its Christmas?” When Bob Geldof announced that he was coming out with the Band Aid 30 song to raise funds for Ebola, it was like seating in a theater and watching history repeat itself. It was not surprising that #bandaid30 brought in a shrew of critics...