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Ugandan Women On The Move
A Ugandan woman at the door of her house. Credit: Jennifer Wilmore. (CC BY-NC 2.0) World over, women have always worked. But most of their work has been unrewarded. Yet, women too contribute to...
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Sierra Leone Women To Boycott Polls Unless Given Right To Own Land
Women from Sierra Leone. Credit: Mehtap Keles (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) 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...
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My New Chosen Career… To Be Very Rich
Chioma Chuka behind a radio console. Credit: chiomachuka.com 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...
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Quality, Sustainability and Resilience – A Must for African Women in Business
A woman selling cowpea in a market in Uganda. Credit: IITA Image Library. (CC BY-NC 2.0) According to the Millennium Declaration of September 2000, governments committed to promoting gender equity and...
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The Challenges Women in Micro Entrepreneurship Face in Africa.
Acting Chief for USAID Africa, Sharon Cromer, Amelia and her employees in the background. Credit: USAID Southern Africa. (CC BY-NC 2.0) In a recent interview with Arthur Levi - former head of the World...
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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...
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Uganda’s Lost Generation
Children at the Kawempe Youth Centre in Uganda. Credit: Book Aid International (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Victoria Masika can hardly speak her mother tongue. If Victoria attempts to speak her parents’ native...
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Identity Trade-Offs Define Today’s Globalised Citizens
Cultural Diversity by b4ddy CC BY-SA 3.0 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...
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Tropical Warmth Greets Migrants in Ghana
Women in a harm reduction project in Tanzania by Doctors of the World. Credit – Doctors of the World UK. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Migration brings new faces to our cities every day, and takes others away....
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Women’s Entrepreneurship : Tailored Dreams of Success in Ghana
“Excuse me is your name Felicia?” I asked as I walked up to a young lady sitting at the entrance of the cramped workspace converted from a former shipping container. “No, Felicia is inside” she...
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Egypt: International Benefits – Local Bane
A woman carrying bread from a bakery in Cairo, Egypt. Credit: Nasser Nouri (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) It’s no secret that the economic situation is Egypt has been in constant decline since the January 25th...
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Rising fuel prices don’t dampen the survivor spirit in Ghana
An overloaded taxi cab in Kumasi, Ghana. Credit: Thom Wisdom (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) “Good afternoon, I want to go to Osu, how much?” “GHS 10.00,” says the taxi driver.” “But that’s almost double the...
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Preventing Uganda’s Looming Climate Catastrophe
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013 to accompany a session on “Cooperation Game – Preventing a Climate Catastrophe.” Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/....
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Conflict in the DR Congo
Fearing for the future, weeping for the past A future without fear: is there hope for the DRC? Endre Vestvik via Flickr If civil-society struggles persist, the DRC will continue to fall short of its...
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Are the Benefits of Trade Really Possible in Uganda?
Getting markets working again in Gulu, Nothern Uganda. Credit: DFID-UK (CC BY 2.0) In this day and age, no economy can afford to stand as an island. This is even truer when it comes to economic...
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Are Coup d’etats the new method of conflict resolution in Africa?
Army Truck with Soldiers in Tahrir Square, Cairo. Egypt. Credit: Ramy Raoof (CC BY 2.0) The recent events in Egypt caused me to take a closer look at Future Challenges article on International Day of...
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African Innovation Hubs Promoting Innovation & Technology on the Continent
Innovation Hubs in Africa Concept – Credit: iHub Nairobi Africa is a massive yet diverse continent, with diversity not only in ethnic cultures but also in geographic regions, which offer a variety of...
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Fat Cat Politicians: The madness of the wages of Nigerian Lawmakers
Nigerian legislators in session in the capital Abuja, October 10, 2012. Credit: Afolabi Sotunde/REUTERS When I started my first job after graduation in 2008 at a federal owned radio and television...
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Empowering Women Entrepreneurs with Technology in Ghana
Linda Naa Quartey (M) – Ghana Innovation Heroine soon after her award in Accra. Photo Credit: Ganyobi Naa’s Blog The under-development of the Ghanaian economy can possibly account for the...
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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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