Africa
The problem with “trickle-down techonomics”
By Jon Gosier, Investor, data scientist, entrepreneur. For TED Hooray for technology! It makes everything better for everyone!! Right? Well, no. When a new technology, like ebooks or health trackers, is only available to some people, it has unintended consequences…
Breaking the Silence
Human Wrongs Watch Meet Suzan, one of 40 young volunteers working to protect South Sudanese women and girls at a refugee settlement in northern Uganda. By Lucy Beck* 6 March 2015 – At Nyumanzi refugee settlement in northern Uganda, where the…
Marginalised African languages getting stifled and snuffed out
South Africa – International Mother Language Day has come and gone, but to South African language activists it was just a show, formalising the good statute book of 11 official languages of the country, whereby some of these languages are…
Pee Power: the many uses of urine generated energy
Some media are awash with news of this remarkable technology that promises to provide energy for lighting in refugee camps and make hydrogen-powered engines more efficient. It may even go to Mars. “Urinal at University of the West of England…
World Wildlife Day and South Africa’s rhinos
Kruger National Park- They are innocent wild animals, born free without a sin. They cannot tell whether today is Sunday or Monday, to them all is well. From a distance they cannot say whether this is a friend or an…
South Africa: plight of creches in rural areas
South Africa – Early Child Development sector is an important income earning sector in South Africa, particularly to those rural women who are zero rated. These are women who live in townships and rural villages earning a living by raising…
Telephone shutdown in R.D. Congo puts women in danger
Words and photos by LolaMora Productions Between the 20th of January and the 8th of February, Gislaine’s income dropped by 50 dollars a day – usually she takes between 70 and 90 dollars – from her business recharging mobile phones.…
Swaziland – fit (only) for a king
Mbabane, Swaziland – Swaziland is as poor as a church mouse, and from the standpoint of size, just as small. The country is very close to South Africa in every way, and some people in South Africa at one stage…
South Africa still hit by load shedding
South Africa – The giant electricity supplier of South Africa Eskom is switching off the lights left and right to households and businesses. This process of load shedding hits both private and public sectors, and occurs at specific time schedules per…
Lesotho elections to end political tensions
Maseru, Lesotho – The current government of national unity in Lesotho will come to an end later this month February 2015. The mountain kingdom of Lesotho is a small country under the leadership of His Majesty King Letsie ‘The Third’…
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