Promoting Africa
"Educate a girl and you educate the whole area... You educate the world", a direct quote from Theresa Kachindamoto. Theresa is chief of Dedza district (Malawi). During her 15 year reign as chief, she is responsible for terminating over 2600 child-marriages in Malawi. Child-marriage has been a major concern in this small landlocked country. How…
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I do not have the answer to every political question that shapes our society. That is the steady reason why I keep writing political essays. I am in the quest for those political answers. In this article that I am writing about, I want to address a particular issue on African constitutional politics. Indeed, As…
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Kareem Olamilekan, also known as Kareem Waris, is a young Nigerian artist who amazes both by his talent and his young age. At 11, he does not have the same occupations as his peers. When his friends certainly play football, he expresses his artistic genius through drawing and painting. Kareem himself says that he does…
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Richard Appiah Akoto, a teacher in Ghana, has used his imagination to teach his students the secrets of Microsoft Word. With just a blackboard and a talent for drawing, he drew the computer application on his blackboard. Teaching kids how to use a computer is hard enough already, but doing it without any computers is…
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South Africa will introduce free tertiary education for students from homes where the combined annual income is 350,000 rand ($27,600) or less annually. The program will be officially launched in 2018, and will take about 5 years to be fully implemented. "This is a drastic and a welcome decision that is long overdue, and provides…
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Ashesi University, which won the Wise Prize for Education, offers its students a way of teaching like no other: invest collectively on projects, to solve the issues of their country. Patrick Awuah, former Ghanaian manager of the US giant Microsoft, and recipient of the Wise Prize for Education 2017, in 2002, landed in the small…
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The rule of Law by definition is the legal principle that should govern a nation, as opposed to being govern by arbitrary power. In the Dark Continent (Africa), the rule of law is slowly but surely growing in our developing nations, and there is much more to be done in order to ensure that it…
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