Stanford Social Innovation Review August 2018 Harriet Nakalyango sells water and farms a small plot of land to make a living on the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda’s capital. After she married at age 16 […]
NPR June 15, 2018 Jean Marie Rukundo did not accompany his wife to the clinic the first two times she gave birth. Here in rural Rwanda, that was considered the […]
AFRICA is home to what may be the world’s oldest counting tools. The Ishango bone from the Democratic Republic of Congo (both sides of which are pictured above) and the […]
New York Times International November 9, 2017 KEUR SIMBARA, Senegal — Demba Diawara is an unlikely advocate for women’s rights. The imam, now in his 80s, has lived all his […]
NPR July 24, 2017 AMY YEE Pat Wilkins didn’t plan to live in Ghana. But the former New Yorker is now so much a part of the society that, as […]
Christian Science Monitor July 20, 2017 Molly Melching founded the nonprofit Tostan, which operates in a number of African countries. It’s known globally for alleviating poverty, as well as for […]
Foreign Policy May 9, 2016 Kenya is trying its best to deter illegal poachers, but revenge killings by farmers and herdsmen can be the bigger problem. NEAR AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK, […]
May 4, 2016 Minority families often miss out on treatment or get left out of research — an ethical failure. New projects are illuminating autism’s diverse shades. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/05/autism-research-overlooked-racial-bias/481314/ Each Tuesday […]
Christian Science Monitor July 12, 2015 DHAKA, BANGLADESH — Students like Eidia Zaman grew up knowing about the threat of cyclones and floods to her coastal country. Now a pilot […]
NPR July 06, 2015 This weekend the monsoon started pouring down on the hilly streets of Dharamsala in northern India. But the rain held off on Monday as thousands of […]
