Shai Reshef
Shai Reshef wants to democratize higher education. At University of the People, he runs a tuition-free online school that offers tuition-free college-level studies to students across the globe, offering bachelor's and associate's degrees in two specialized areas where the jobs are:…
President Obama welcomes leaders from across the African continent to the Nation’s Capital for a three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the first such event of its kind. This Summit, the largest event any U.S. President has held with African heads of state and…
This week several young and promising leaders were assembled in Washington DC for President Obama's Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). Hastings Mkandawire is one of the nine Young African Leaders’ Initiative (YALI) fellows from Malawi now in Washington, DC, participating in the…
In front of 500 exceptional young leaders, President Obama announced the renaming of the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders in honor of Nelson Mandela. He also announced that the United States intends to double the number of annual participants in the Mandela Washington Fellowship to…
The People of Africa v. Their Western Saviors
In American media and pop culture, Africans remain objects of our pity or moral outrage or fascination. The images are deeply disturbing, even enthralling, but they aren’t really about Africans; they’re about us. FRAMED…
Uganda aims to start producing its first car the Kiira EV SMACK by 2018. Production of the vehicle is expected to start at a goal of 300 a month. The car will be a combination of a conventional internal combustion engine and an…
HARARE, Jul 10 2014 (IPS) - For 22-year-old Moselyn Muchena, a final year computer science student at the University of Zimbabwe, it seemed obvious to create a mobile application offering easy access to services in the local catering industry, largely because of the huge…
Everyday that we use our cellphones, laptop computers and tablets we should ask ourselves how every African child is preparing for a future driven by these technologies. In this increasingly global and more technology driven society it is imperative that African students…
Patrick Ngowi is the New Face of Africa, an entrepreneur who has lighted up rural Kenya by providing solar power, protecting the environment and making a living as well as creating jobs and uplifting the standard of living of those around him.
Ngowi got…
Reports coming out of Zimbabwe are that the Mugabe regime is back in the business of abductions and opposition party intimidation. In times past the party subjected to these brutal tactics was the Movement for Democratic Change which has grown more media…