"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
Information technology, long dominated by men, is taking on a feminine look. While the arguments over how to get a better gender balance in the tech space fly back and forth, there’s a small army of women who are making a mark in the tech world.
An academic article I wrote in the current issue of the journal Africa Today offers a new explanation for negative African reactions to the US Military Command in Africa (AFRICOM).
A new report from the US-based body, the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) and ATHENA Network’s Women’s HIV Prevention Tracking Project capturing perspectives of women from sub-Saharan Africa, calls for the cautious rollout of” medical male circumcision, MMC, and “recommends on how to programme its scale-up to ensure MMC is safe and beneficial to whole communities.”
NAIROBI – Pumwani Maternity Hospital, in the impoverished Nairobi neighbourhood of Eastlands, is the site of a trial project using mobile phones to help HIV-positive mothers avoid passing the virus on to their children.
NAIROBI – Ngara High School looks like many hard-scrabbled boarding schools in Nairobi; overcrowded. But the girl’s school is at the forefront of a new-styled secondareducation in Kenya. It is one of only ten schools that is focusing on empowering teenage girls and teaching them to say no to violence against women. A Video By a24media.com
‘Is China smartening up its environmental and social act in Africa? It certainly wants to be seen as doing just that’, writes Stephen Marks.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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