"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
It’s good news for rice farmers in Cameroon! Their Yaoundé-based National Institute for Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD) has developed a post-harvest rice machine. The machine that mills rice, cleans it and separates the broken grains from the good one is one of the many scientific innovations developed by the institution to improve rice growing in the country.
Yaounde’ – With a wide smile Beatrice M.* says that she lives by the motto “life is short and beautiful — live it to the full.” The 20-year-old, HIV-positive mother refuses to be defeated by her new circumstances. Beatrice, a second year anthropology student at the University of Yaounde I, found out she was pregnant and HIV-positive when she was 18.
All of us are working hard to help the world be a better place.
Today, Johannesburg will host its annual Pride event with a march and other festivities. The 2013 event, titled, “c,” was rescheduled in September and moved to the well-heeled Sandton district of the city.
Can Africa follow China’s industrialisation path? The simple answer is “No”.
Harare – It is a common sight in Zimbabwe’s rural areas – dilapidated old cars making their way from one district to the next overloaded with chickens, maize, luggage and people.
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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