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Banking on Mobiles: Africa leading the way
The rise of telecommunications in Africa is causing a revolution in mobile banking RINGING IN THE CHANGES: Comparing two mobilephones and their mobile banking potential; The Reboot via Flickr Some...
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A Poor Woman’s Life in Kampala
Woman in Uganda at the door of her house. Credit: Jennifer Wilmore. (CC BY-NC 2.0) Agnes Namagembe is one of 4.2 million Ugandans living in urban areas. Like the majority of Uganda’s urban dwellers,...
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Fracking’s role in South African economic development
Fracking operations. Image courtesy of Joshua Doubek. Just 19 years into democracy, ‘development’ and ‘transformation’ continue to be buzzwords in South Africa. Both terms fit equally well into the...
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Empowering Young Women in South Africa’s Townships
Women’s Day protests in 2008. Photo courtesy of K. Kendall Poverty and unemployment are chronic ailments that afflict much of South Africa’s scattered township population. These townships, known as...
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On my first day at the GES I had the pleasure of kicking off the GES interviews by sitting down with Jan Rieländer, an economist with the OECD and a specialist in one of the topics that are really dear...
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Bamboo no longer just for Pandas!
A giant panda enjoying some bamboo. Credit: Tim Evanson (CC BY-SA 2.0) In October 2012, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published the World Economic Outlook (WEO), a forecast for more than 180...
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Poor women in cities: The journey called migration
Women with arranged mounds of tomatoes and peppers for sale. Credits: Grassroots Women Empowerment through ICT GWEIT (Women in Technology Blog) The first thing she notices are the streetlights; they...
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Inclusive Growth and Apartheid’s Shadow
Mist over the CBD in Cape Town. Photo Courtesy of Andy B South Africa is soon to enter its twentieth year as a democratic nation. Looking back over the 19 years of its existence up to this point, it is...
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The Mobile Revolution in South Africa
A mobile phone store in Joe Slovo Park township, South Africa. Photo courtesy of Iuthu Tshambo Numerous rapid online developments since the birth of Web 2.0 have undeniably played a major role in the...
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A Transatlantic Partnership with Ripples Across the Oceans: What Does Africa...
Abstract: The Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) – currently known as Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – may be negotiated in Brussels and Washington, but the ripples will be felt...
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A befitting price of nature
Uganda’s nature is priceless. But, can we attach a monetary value on nature? Yes and no. If I conserve forests, pay me per tree planted or per river bank protected so that I can buy my essential needs...
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Rwanda: Never Again
I believe some of you have heard about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. This April the people of Rwanda are marking 20 years since the genocide was stopped by a rag tag rebel group of the Rwandan...
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Address Uganda’s Inequality in Education
How do we help everyone in the world to become equal? Is that possible? Yes, but we need to have ambition. Ambition, the desire to change the world, desire to be a better person etc. is not something...
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Inequality is Uganda’s Social Challenge
Inequality is a social challenge that exists in every society. There is always inequality among the poor and among the rich. Even in same family if the children are born of rich parents, the children...
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Africa’s Revolution: The Inaccuracy of Labels
This post was inspired by a session I listened to called “Revolution postponed: The Arab Spring and Africa” at the just concluded Global Media Forum hosted by Deutsche Welle. Who provides the worldwide...
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The BRICS Development Bank: Does the Rise of the Rest Mean the Decline of the...
The “decline of the West” has become an increasingly ubiquitous phrase in recent years. Depending on your perspective, you may cringe or express glee at the thought of the Western world going into...
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Ghana: How Far Can the Ebola Crisis Go?
Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and parts of Nigeria are literally in the Ebola hemorrhagic fever lock-down. For months, these West African countries have been battling the contagious Ebola virus disease...
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What’s Hot in Ghana: Remembering Nkrumah’s Legacy Through Volunteerism
Kwame NkrumahCredit: en.wikipedia.org Sarah Bernhardt once said, ”legends remain victorious in spite of history”. She couldn’t have said it better. In fact, legends still remain with us even today....
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Electricity Outages Causing Ripple Effects in Ghana’s Economy
Ghana is currently facing its longest power crisis ever. Despite Ghana Government’s promise to fix this problem by offering alternative sources of power, the country is still experiencing frequent...
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Nigeria Has Decided
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, elected a former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari as its new president. Mr. Buhari defeated the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan in a tightly contested March...
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In This Digital Age Not Even a Tweet is Taken for Granted
You fancy yourself as a fair and sensitive commentator, always sure to consider the isms that may blight an otherwise thoughtful opinion. You often call out racism and sexism in articles, essays and...
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New Media is Revolutionising Foreign Relations
The advent of the new media has altered virtually every facet of our society. And, foreign policy has not been left behind either. We have become used to receiving news and commentary from new sources...
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Empowering or Exploiting? Africa’s digital story
Panelists for the Africa Online workshop Credit: www.flickr.com/deutschewelle The debate on what international social media platforms get from the African continent can continue over and over but the...
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The Defenders of Freedom of Expression in Uganda
The 2016 DW Global Media Forum ended on June 15. One statement that will always remain fresh in my mind was made by Peter Limbourg, the DW Director General; ““The end of the freedom of expression is...
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Tackling Nigeria’s Beast of Child Marriages
In March, social media woke up to a really startling story: a young girl, a 13-year-old child that had been kidnapped from Bayelsa, taken to Kano state, rechristened Aisha in an apparent conversion to...
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