Social Media Ideas for Martin Kalungu-Banda

Malawi: From Seaweed to Sanitary Pads - Malawian Scientist Pushes to Build Solutions in Africa

[allAfrica] "You can have a brilliant solution and still struggle to get it in front of the right people."

Zambia: 'I Became Protective' - A Cancer Survivor's Fight to Fix Zambia's Health System

[allAfrica] "Once you go through something as traumatic as a cancer diagnosis, you automatically become protective of the next person," said Karen Nakawala, a Zambian broadcaster a...

Africa: A Network That Never Asks for Money Moved $100 Million Last Year

[RootsToFoods Capital Series] In a RootsToFoods Capital Series interview continuing Wave 2 of the series, Michael Meehan, founder of the Forum for Impact and former chief executive...

Forget the Live Aid image, Africa is only a broken continent in the minds of the west | Moky Makura

Innovators and business leaders are driving progress across the continent-wide, but the ‘visibility gap’ prevents the rest of the world from truly seeing itThirty years ago, shortl...

Martin Lloyd

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Public Health Begins With Listening: Lessons From Zambia and Malawi on Reducing Maternal Mortality

In the Zambian districts where it operated, the five-year Saving Mothers, Giving Life initiative helped reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 41 percent. Its success relied not on...

Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda, former attorney general of Malawi

This week, The PIE sat down with former Attorney General of Malawi Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda, himself a former international student. We discussed why UK universities continue to attr...

Marketing here, events there and all of Paul Atwine everywhere

He trained as a lawyer, hoping to follow in his father’s footsteps. But then life had him teaching himself digital marketing.

 Let’s shatter silence to save young lives – Marowa

PROGRAMMES manager of Shamwari Yemwanasikana, Funuel Marowa, says deeply rooted cultural traditions and crippling economic disadvantages continue to trap young girls in vulnerable...

Africa: Climate's Most Catalytic Capital Knows Exactly Where to Go - Africa's Rainforest Basins

[RootsToFoods Capital Series] In a RootsToFoods Capital Series interview opening Wave 2 of the series, Randall Kempner -- Executive Director of the Climate Philanthropy Catalyst Co...

The Catch-22 that keeps the world's poorest countries, like Malawi, mired in poverty – Susan Dalgety

Malawi struggles to fund increased access to higher education, but without a better educated workforce its economy will remain fragile

Machakaire advocates responsible digital engagement

BRANDON JOSPHAT THE minister of Youth, Tino Machakaire, has urged global leaders to equip young people with ethical digital skills for peacebuilding. Speaking during the Opening Se...

What kind of ancestor will you become?, By Martin Kalungu-Banda

Ajadi ends where he began, facing forward. “Afrilition”, he writes, is the light towards a twenty first century African civilisation, a platform for intergenerational awakening. Th...

Marek Fuchs: The musical journey with Sauti Sol

Unlike the products and services businesses he had previously worked in, talent management required a different kind of commitment.

Pamoja 2027 - Baba Deserves the Bigger Chicken

[Daily News] Africa -- LET me declare an interest. I am African, a proud African, not only by complexion, but by heart, soul and spirit. Most interestingly, I am East African.

Malawi: Mumba's Charity for Poor Students Hit By Registration Hold-Up

[Nyasa Times] A charitable foundation set up by Malawian MP Vitumbiko Mumba to help vulnerable college and university students is at risk of missing its planned launch date after o...

When African Smallholders Access Finance, They’ll Show You What’s Possible

NAIROBI, Kenya, September 24 (IPS) - I was born in Rwanda, but my family soon became refugees in Uganda during the conflict and unrest on the cusp of independence. My father was a...

Why real development means changing lives, not just finishing projects

Permanent Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office responsible for Policy, Parliament, Coordination and Persons with Disabilities, Dr Jim Yonazi, said the government needed evidenc...

I’m emotionally affected, but I’ll rally behind Banda – Shakafuswa

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 “Hands were shaking”: What a social media workshop taught us about Managalas

A four-day social media workshop in Papua New Guinea’s Managalas Conservation Area revealed challenges with smartphone access, internet connectivity and digital confidence. The pos...

Q&A: Marsh Naidoo on Disability Rights for Rural Families 

When the Donor Walks Away

  This week, African leaders gathered in New York with a message that sounded both bold and overdue: Africa must take greater control of its own health systems. Ghanaian President...

Tanzania academic explores how tech impacts African lives

When most people throw away an old mobile phone, laptop or circuit board, they rarely think about where it goes next.

Poverty stricken Malawian teen starts uni thanks to former First Minister's charity programme

The ex-first minister's McConnell International Foundation is raising money for its scheme to keep poverty stricken girls in school.