Twenty years ago, a young man from the slums of Yaoundé founded a local waste collection service. Tam Tam Mobile is a community initiative founded in Melen. Like most informal settlements, this residential area is not connected to the city’s public garbage disposal system. So the slum dwellers had to improvise. The Tam Tam Mobile […]
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Read How Dr. Weyinmi and her NGO, CMADI are Solving the Challenges of the Niger Delta Region
Ides Ofune 24th July 2019 0 COMMENTSOur Desert Bloomer for this week is Oritseweyinmi Erikowa-Orighoye working with CMADI (Coastal and Marine Areas Development Initiative), an NGO that promotes environmental sustainability and conservation for peace, unity and economic empowerment. As a fellow PhD student, I was deeply interested in her work as a researcher and what her NGO does in the Niger […]
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Nigerian Author Lesley Nneka Wins Prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing
admin 9th July 2019 0 COMMENTSNigerian author Lesley Nneka Arimah has won the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story ‘Skinned’. She was awarded $12,500 for winning this prize. Nneka told the BBC that a conversation she had with her friend inspired her to write the story. Her friend is “quite strange and her strangeness was something […]
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Jekoniya Chitereka, a PhD Student from Zimbabwe at the University of Leeds says to Prospective Students, Funding Follows Ideas. Read more of his Advice
Ides Ofune 13th June 2019 0 COMMENTSJekoniya Chitereka is a Researcher and Demographer with over 10 years of experience in Zimbabwe. His experience in research management, coordination covers community development, sexual and reproductive health including HIV and AIDS. He has worked with multilateral agencies such as UNFPA, UNICEF and UNDP. He is currently a Researcher at the University of Leeds where […]
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NGO commemorates 2019 Africa Day by Inspiring Young Africans to Explore Science and Technology
admin 11th June 2019 0 COMMENTSSomething big has begun brewing up for Africa. On the 25th May, 2019, the STEMi Makers Africa launched the “STEMing for Africa” to commemorate the Africa Day 2019. On this day, while it was great to reflect and celebrate the journey of Africa through colonization and war, it was also a day to discuss how […]
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STEMi Makers Africa Organises Training for Educators and Students to Promote STEM Education in Schools and Underserved Communities
Ides Ofune 10th June 2019 0 COMMENTSSTEMi Makers Africa is an organisation dedicated to promoting STEM education in Africa. It works to ensure that STEM innovation and education is developed and inculcated in underserved communities. This year, the vision was to reach out to students from ages 5- 13. This is because, a research survey carried out in the Ojo Local […]
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Meet Ayodele Sipasi, a Young Nigerian Agriculturist Fighting to Eliminate Extreme Poverty in West Africa
Ides Ofune 2nd June 2019 0 COMMENTSOur Desert Bloomer for the week is Sipasi Olalekan Ayodele. He is a Carrington 2017 Fellow, a 2017 ONE Champion, a Fellow of Thinking School Africa. He is the 2016 Winner of the African Youth Award in Agriculture and a winner of The Future Awards Africa for Agriculture. He is the co-founder of ProtectOzone Sustainable […]
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Meet Nehemiah Attigah, the Co-founder of Odekro, an organisation dedicated to promoting transparency and accountability in Ghana
Ides Ofune 21st May 2019 0 COMMENTSAfrica is in need of credible civil society organisations that can provide accurate data to spark up debates in order for its citizens to make informed decisions. Many decisions made by government, its agencies and parliaments are hidden from the public making elected officials go unpunished from inefficiencies and corruption. That’s why civil society organisations […]
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The Odekro Story: Empowering Ghanaians with Accurate Information on Parliament
admin 19th May 2019 0 COMMENTSIn the Akan chieftaincy hierarchy, the Odekro is the sub-divisional chief responsible for ruling a town and making sure the citizens are taken care of. Members of Parliament (MPs) are elected to serve constituencies and this intervention, Odekro, monitors them. Odekro PMO Foundation founded in 2015 is a non-profit, non-partisan, parliamentary monitoring organization based in […]
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Yetunde Sanni, Co-Founder of Tech in Pink shares her experience of becoming a Google Techmaker Scholar
Ides Ofune 14th May 2019 0 COMMENTSOur Desert Bloomer for this week is Oluwatoyin Yetunde Sanni. She is the co-founder of Tech in Pink, an organisation dedicated to promoting and empowering women in Technology. She is currently a post graduate student and recently became a Google EMEA Women Techmakers scholar. Yetunde is a very passionate about women in technology and you […]
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