Bridge Africa Foundation (B.A.F) believes in the power of education to secure a better future for Africa. Education is a one shot, if not done properly, will result in a shortage skilled innovative leaders to lead, our infrastructure and drive our economic and political stability. Africa has a strong cultural belief in education, and a …
In our series of letters from African writers, media consultant and trainer Joseph Warungu writes about plans to build a huge museum in Ghana (so that Africans, rather than foreigners, control their history and heritage) to reflect the history and heritage of Africans. A new migration of Africans is about to happen. The Maasai of …
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The First Lady of Rwanda, Jeannette Kagame, spoke of the new challenges facing women across the world at the Commonwealth Women’s Forum taking place in the capital, Kigali. The Forum runs alongside the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting that opened on Monday and culminates with high-level meetings on Friday and Saturday. “From the disproportionate impact of climate change on women …
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A group of women seated with their babies are giving their full attention to Mama Elisabeth Muganwa in a large plastic tent in Kikumbe, an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp just 20 kilometres outside Kalémie, in the Tanganyika region of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. “Hello women,” Muganwa calls out, and the mothers respond …
Tackling child malnutrition in the DRC through cooking classes Read More »
A statement by the NRC’s secretary-general Jan Egeland said: “With the all-absorbing war in Europe’s Ukraine, I fear African suffering will be pushed further into the shadows.” According to the NGO, the countries most neglected are the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, South Sudan, Chad, Mali, Sudan, Nigeria, Burundi and Ethiopia. It is the first time …
NGO warns world’s ‘most neglected’ refugee crises are all in Africa Read More »
The UN World Food Programme, WFP, said on Monday that it will have no choice but to make further food ration cuts soon for refugees. The cause of the imminent cuts is multiplying humanitarian needs around the world and insufficient funding. “As global hunger soars way beyond the resources available to feed all the families …
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On the 14th of June 2022, Paul Modjadji’s directorial film The Deal premiered at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton. Starring two SAFTA lifetime award winners, Dr. Jerry Mofokeng wa Makgetha and Abigail Kubeka, The Deal premiere was hosted just two days before the commemoration of the 1976 June 16th youth uprising and during the …
MoU to support post-pandemic recovery of the tourism sector in Kenya Signature Kenyan destinations, experiences to be highlighted to Mastercard cardholders Global technology company, Mastercard, has announced the signing of a partnership with the Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) to help Kenya’s tourism sector rebound to its pre-pandemic level. The three-year collaboration is the first-of-its-kind for …
Mastercard Announces MoU With Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) To Help Boost Tourism Read More »
With a digital media platform that focuses on World Shapers, Afro-Futurism, Cultural Bridge Builders, and much more for 2022. Can you imagine the modern world without the influences of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, Idris Elba, Naomi Campbell, Lewis Hamilton, or Sade? When we look at science and inventions, the …
THE NSANJE AGRICULTURAL PROJECT MALAWI, SOUTHEAST AFRICA Life is incredibly difficult for a large segment of the population of the African nation of Malawi. Considered among the world’s least developed nations, poverty-stricken Malawi is a place in which: Every five seconds a child dies from hunger-related causes. Long periods of drought and frequent natural disasters …
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