Livinguard Germ-Destroying Facemasks Launches Across Kenya
One of the world’s newest technologies has launched into Kenya with the roll-out of the award-winning Livinguard face mask. The mask destroys 99.9 percent of viruses and bacterial infections on contact, including SARS-COV-2 and variants of the virus responsible for COVID 19. The virus-destroying masks remain effective throughout six months of washing and wearing. The […]
Why Reskilling Will Matter For South Africa’s Success
South Africans have faced difficult circumstances in recent years. And with unemployment at a record 34.9 percent, the highest level since 2008, many South Africans are understandably tired and disillusioned. While there is little doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic, which is now in its fourth wave, contributed to the surge in unemployment, South Africa’s skills […]
Congolese Dance Gets the Recognition it Deserves
Congolese rumba is among at least nine new entries on UNESCO’s “representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity.” The Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Congo jointly bid for UNESCO to recognize the music and dance, which helped energize people in those countries to shake off colonial rule by Belgium and […]
How Vending Machines Changed the Way Kenyans Do their Groceries
In recent years, vending machines have been popping up across Nairobi’s numerous informal settlements – selling milk, cooking oil, clean renewable cooking fuel and sanitary pads. Although operating vending machines in deprived areas of Africa comes with challenges. Often, shop owners can only afford the very cheapest machines, which might not be suitable for food. […]
Calling Africa’s Climate Change Entrepreneurs
Applications have opened in Africa and Asia for the Adaptation SME Accelerator Project (ASAP), a programme for SMEs and startups that are scaling market-based and contextualised solutions to critical climate adaptation and resilience challenges. Run by Village Capital and The Lightsmith Group, ASAP will accelerate 16 SMEs and startups that are scaling climate adaptation and […]
What Namibia and Germany Need to Do to Heal
In May this year, the German government formally acknowledged responsibility for the colonial-era genocide against Namibia’s Herero and Nama peoples more than 100 years ago. It was the first such atrocity of the 20th century, committed between 1904 and 1908 in the name of Imperial Germany in the territory known then as German South West […]
Senegal Targets Same-sex Couples
A group of Senegalese lawmakers has drafted a law that would tighten already repressive laws against same-sex relations, lengthening potential jail terms for those convicted of LGBT+ activities The bill would lengthen prison terms to between five and 10 years and criminalize LGBT+ activities specifically. The current law targets anyone who commits an “act against […]
Tracing Oxford Professor’s Roots to Africa
The University of Oxford has made history by appointing Patricia Kingori to a full professorship, making the sociologist the youngest Black woman ever to receive tenure at Oxford or Cambridge. Kingori, born in Kenya to a Kenyan father and Caribbean mother, spent her childhood in St Kitts, before the family moved to the UK during […]
Giving Ivorian Youths Something to Fight For
Côte d’Ivoire’s government is trying to prevent young people, who are often unemployed, from being seduced by jihadists, who try to recruit them in exchange for money and motorbikes. At the end of November, during a tour of the northern part of the country, Mamadou Touré, the minister for the promotion of youth, professional integration […]
Zimbabwe is Losing its Frontline Workers Over Working Conditions
A huge exodus of health professionals amid the Covid-19 pandemic is hitting Zimbabwe hard with more than 2,200 leaving to take jobs in the US, UK, Australia, and neighbouring states. According to the government’s Health Service Board, this is more than double the number of doctors, nurses and pharmacists who left last year, and three […]
