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How Uganda’s agricultural sector is coping with climate change

April 25, 2019

I joined CNBC Africa host Makeda on her Power Lunch program to discuss the on-going drought and how it’s affecting the region. The delayed rains put quit the damper on the start of our production year. We normally start harvests at the end of March. But because sustained rains didn’t return until last week, we’ve been delayed by about a month. Those kinds of delays can have a huge impact on your…

Serena Williams’ “secret” venture capital portfolio includes one of Africa’s best-known startups
April 23, 2019 investment technology

Alongside Andela, Serena Ventures has also backed Coinbase, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, Masterclass, the online learning platform and Wave, a remittance service that’s available in five African countries. I’ve been a user of Wave’s brilliantly…
The Cognitive Dissonance over Jumia’s German Identity
April 23, 2019 technology

It’s been a week since Rocket Internet’s Jumia debuted on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The stock (so far) has been met with the type bullish exuberance only Wall Street can muster, sending the stock…
Tiny Spark: What Can We Do About The White Savior Complex?
April 20, 2019 Appearances International Development

My second appearance on the Tiny Spark podcast is probably my favorite, only because I only found out after the episode was published that the entire episode was full of some of my favorite people. I…
Dear Africa, Louise Linton Is On Us
July 8, 2016 Appearances International Development Zambia

I spent a couple of days thinking about the Louise Linton debacle and I published the below piece on Medium for The Development Set. It usually starts with a trickle. Then a steady stream. Then a torrent…
What White America Fails to See – The New York Times
July 8, 2016 Americana

This is a very powerful, cogent —albeit painful—read in light of the events of the last five days. Professor Michael Eric Dyson in the New York Times: You cannot know what terror we live in. You make…
The future of online discourse in Uganda: Are we free to disagree?
May 26, 2016 technology Uganda

The US Embassy Mission in Kampala this afternoon facilitated, in partnership with ICTAU, an open dialog on Net Freedom in Uganda. In attendance were the usual suspects one can find at such brain gatherings in the…
JadedAid T-Shirts are now available
May 23, 2016 International Development

If you’ve been paying attention, then you already know I am the Educated Angry African co-founder of JadedAid, a card game to save humanitarians. This past week, we launched a SWAG section on our online store.…
Your White Savior Complex is detrimental to my development
March 21, 2016 International Development

Last week, I got an email question from a colleague (we’ll call her ‘Amy’). I asked Amy for permission to answer her question in a more public forum, because this is a question I get quite often. And…
Dear Quartz, it’s too early to make a call on the success of mobile money in Africa
March 17, 2016 technology Uganda

Tom Jackson, writing for Quartz Africa: The impact of mobile money, for one, has not been uniform across the continent. M-Pesa has been a resounding success in Kenya, where over half of adult consumers have an…

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