Promoting Africa
Refilwe Ledwaba is a South African woman of many hats, hats that she wears with grace. In what has been traditionally a patriarchal society, the opportunities available for women to pursue their interest and excel have been greatly diminished. Some women have defied the odds stacked against them and gone on to excel in fields…
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Among the sustainable development goals (SDGs), goal number three is to promote and ensure good health and well being of people of all ages by promoting preventive and curative or generally provision and access to universal healthcare. In line with this SDG, focusing on health, actions are encouraged to foster public health, including different actions,…
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Increased pressures on the environment, more particularly, the natural resources, has necessitated efforts at research and development, and innovations with an objective of ensuring the sustainable utilization of non-renewable resources and responsible exploitation or use of renewable resources. A focus area, particularly in Africa, in an endeavor to foster sustainability, has been the harvesting or…
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On Thursday, October 24, 2019, evening, through a press release signed by the Chairman of the board, the board of directors of Safaricom PLC confirmed that it had settled for Mr. Peter Ndegwa, a technocrat with more than 25 years’ experience in various business areas, as the CEO to take office from April 1, 2020.…
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In the days leading up to the Ineos 159 challenge in Vienna, the social media was awash with scientific demonstrations of how it was virtually impossible for one Eliud Kipchoge, the man who set the World Marathon record in Berlin at 2:01:39 in the 2018 Berlin Marathon, to run a sub-two hour marathon. The arguments…
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The challenges faced in African countries, are unique to Africa. Africa, cognizant of this fact, has over the years, strived to develop home-grown or made solutions, working with development partners from not only within the continent, but from other parts of the world as well. Who better to bear witness to the strides made in…
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“Mom, where do babies come from?” An inquisitive young one would ask. In their own infinite wisdom, parents in African societies, where sex conversations were virtually considered a taboo, would have varying escapism responses to this big questions. One of the most difficult conversations for parents in most African societies to have with their children…
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