How Social Media is helping Female Consumers hold Corporations Accountable.
What do Always sanitary products, X-pression braids, Thinx period-proof underwear, and DevaCurl have in common? While the uses of these products are as different from each other as day is…
“Everything is sex… Except sex; which is power, and power is just sex” -Janelle Monae.
Inspired by Janelle Monae’s song Screwed from the album Dirty Computer. Let's start this off with a Gender inequality. A report by the World Economic Forum estimates that at the…
COVID-19 and Renewable Energy Transition In Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Source Since the inception of COVID-19, mankind have witnessed the unleashing of an unprecedented global economic dilemma, resulting in a terra incognita for countries and most sectors, but few more…
The Voice Inside Your Head
How it used to be Remember when you were a child? When you were so excited to paint, not because you "knew how" to paint but because there was nothing…
Lockdown vs. No Lockdown: What’s the Effective Solution to Combat COVID 19 in Africa?
As we all know about this global pandemic called COVID 19 (coronavirus), it is affecting both, the rich and the poor, black and whites, Asians, Europeans, Australian and Africans, it…
What’s Up With the African Continental Free Trade Area?
(2019) INTRODUCTION The beauty of the African continent lies in the economic, social, innovative, and cultural diversity of its people. The African man or woman is so unique that deep…
The evolution of technology: we are left to use implanted microchips.
(Stevens L, 2017) Implanted microchips As our technology era evolves, our electronic devices still grow smaller and extra compact. People were used to big computers in the early 90s, and…
How to Make Teaching more Effective?
PUSEY. S, 2019 Education is an enlightening experience. It brings an integrating permanent change in one's thinking and capacity to do things. According to Bell Hooks, “education was about the…
Queer Ecological Feminism; my perspective.
Through watching Queer Eye on Netflix, I took notice of the role intersectionality plays - how a minority group combine effort to help uplift people's lives. The show's concept demonstrates the interconnectedness…
The Tipping Point: Is there a point of no return in Climate Change?
Dominoes tipping over. Image from (Lewis, 2019) If like me you've been wondering if the recent floodings in Kenya (Al-Jazeera, 2020), Rwanda (TRT, 2020), and the DRC (VoA news, 2020),…
“Recycling technologies the highway to an Eco-friendly Africa.”
Africa Today Africa has been undergoing the fastest rate of urbanization for the past two decades at per cent a year. African countries experiencing economic growth, rapid urbanization and increased…
Queer Lives in Africa during Covid-19
In many countries across Africa, even in “normal” everyday life, the queer community lives in fear and is subjected to violence and discrimination on basis of their sexuality. NGO groups…
What do you know about graphic design?
Is it this? Source: (Word Stream, 2019) An advert Or this? Source: (Mdundo,2016) A meme of a photoshop fail. whatever guess you had you are probably right. Graphic design under…
Where Climate and queerness Intersect; Human Rights.
In the contemporary societal disposition of capitalistic states, markets and way of life, there has been an emergence of climatic changes; changes that have moved against the nuance of what…
What is Virtual Reality and how can it Revolutionize Rwanda’s Education System in 2020.
source: Virtual Reality() can be defined as a computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or atmosphere which will be interacted using special equipment, like a helmet with a screen within…
Sex Education : Why it matters
Past couple of days on 13th February, Rwanda joined the rest of the world to celebrate the international day of condom. Watching the news with parents, there is an uncomfortable…
”Why we need to go back and review existing approaches for women’s full inclusion.”
2019 Global Gender Summit held in Kigali, Image 2019 One cannot overlook how the last decade was marked by the championship of equality, among which was women's full inclusion in…
How Twitter became a Resistance Enclave for Kenyan Women.
Image by Lulu Kitololo Counting Dead Women Kenya (@deadwomen_ke) is not your ordinary Twitter account. Instead of regular musings, this twitter account documents and draws attention to news about women…
Social media is the “new Parent”. Are we doomed?
The advent of the Third Industrial Revolution has disrupted relationships between people, making the world a ‘planetary village’. Nowadays, thanks to social media, interactions in the four corners of the…