No Comment: The Clock is Ticking
This video is courtesy ‘The Girl Effect’, a global movement which aims to empower adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves and the world.Filed under: Africa, Algeria, Americas, Asia, Australia,...
View ArticleReuters: Five themes to watch in Africa this year
Following are five big themes or events likely to make waves in emerging and frontier sub-Saharan Africa during 2012: Nigerian Economic Reforms - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan opened 2012 with a...
View ArticleNo Comment: “I’m so Happy”
Filed under: Africa, Americas, Asia, Britain, Climate Change, Colonialism, Debate Issues, Development, DR Congo, Economic Development, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Farming, Ghana, Ivory Coast,...
View ArticleJeffrey Sachs: Global health within our grasp, if we don’t give up
This is a reblog, courtesy of CNN International There is a hidden revolution at work that can transform the lives of a billion of the poorest people on the planet. The dream of health for all, even the...
View ArticlePhotography: 21st century farming in Ethiopia
These photos were taken by Tom Levitt for Getty images. Usually reserved for men, the career of herding livestock is slowly becoming available to women in Ethiopia. This shift is a direct consequence...
View ArticleFelicity Kendal: On World Africa Day Isn’t it Time We Start to See Africa...
This is a reblog from Huffington Post UK. Felicity Kendal is a British film, theatre and television actress. In a taxi somewhere on the streets of West London the cab driver turned to me and said “What...
View Article450 Households in Kenya now have clean water
It’s not often we get good news out of Sub-Saharan Africa, especially so soon after a period of severe droughts. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement announced on their Facebook page...
View ArticleGoverning Land for Men and Women
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) have just released their latest report, titled ‘Governing Land for Men and Women’, which is a technical guide to support the achievements of responsible...
View Article27 Myths about the Developing World
I found this article on Global Citizen and wanted to share it. There was a lot here that made me think, but many of these myths have been debunked by most academics and professionals in development....
View ArticleAfrican Myths, Busted
We’re all guilty of some stereotypes about Africa – I’ve never been there and I can assure you I have my own, mostly based on literature and my academic interests in development studies. That’s not the...
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