Tagged articles on Africa
The Politics of Hair
Image: Twitter Your hair is not just hair. Then what is it? You might wonder. Hair has always had a significance socially, culturally, and even religiously for hundreds of years…
Stateless Minorities in Madagascar: Everything you Absolutely Need to Know
What does it feel like to not belong? What does it feel like to grow up in a home where you are viewed as a stranger even though it is…
AFRIQUEERNACITY: Reimagining how we Write and Portray African queer stories
Can queerness be indigenised? Is homosexuality un-African? Image by Afriqueernacity: An unapologetic celebration of queer excellence with everything that locates us as an indigenised African queer community. “ Indigenizing my…
The Plight of Zimbabweans with Common Mental Disorders
The Global healthcare space has seen drastic changes in the last few decades as technology and human innovation continue to push the boundaries of discovery as the medical community strives…
The Lion That Doesn’t Bite
BEHIND THE CURTAINS OF GHANA'S WILDLIFE Close your eyes, picture the world without biodiversity, the world without wildlife, and the world without Nature. Reflect on what you have seen as…
Lessons from Rwanda’s Booming MICE sector
Rwanda’s current population is about 13 million, and if no measures are taken, the population will be about million by 2050 according to The New Times. (Frank, 2011) Twenty-six years…
In Africa, is Mental Health a Thing?
CREDIT BRITE My Story I grew up in a community where depression was thought to be for the rich. This mainly meant that it is not a disease, but maybe…
Future Class Norm #1: All Hands on Tech!
Students in Somalia ( @HelpYateem twitter, 2017) The conversations discussing digitization (part of the third industrial revolution), Artificial Intelligence (herein also referred to as AI), and other technologies referred to…
It is Rasta, Not Gangster
Be honest and tell me what you think when you see someone with dreadlocks? Especially when it is a guy? Before you even talk to him so that you know…
Why we need to empower refugees to be “Self-reliant”, and the resultant economic impact for Host Countries.
A group of people fleeing conflict in Goma in DR Congo with their belongings | ©Photo: Getty Images/ While many people choose to move from one country to another, continent-to-continent…