No. Not permanently. Since our first post in early 2008, I’ve had this vision of what PD should be but I was never able to execute it properly. Over the last few years, I’ve known that…
March 2013
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Last month, my dear mother had the privilege of publishing her first global op-ed. My friends at UN Foundation contacted me while I was in Uganda and requested to get in touch with her. They wanted…
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My Q and A with @tmsruge: Hiring Locally for #socent Project Management in Africa | Voye’m
March 31, 2013 AppearancesTeddy’s was the voice that first challenged my perspective on building a business in Africa. Much of my model at Nakate has been created around his advice and the advice of his colleagues, both on the…
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(CNN) — Let’s give praise where praise is due. Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 viral video campaign has done what no other advocacy organization has been able to do until now: capture 29 minutes worth of attention…
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The “Kony 2012” campaign is a different kind of beast. Here, the voice of the marginalized is minimized, and their agency to determine the course of their future is stripped. They become bit players in their…
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As early as 2007, my eyes began to witness the full potential of our impact through remittances. I remember wondering if there were other members of the Diaspora feeling the same pull to the continent that…
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Staying silent is a crime, so engage on climate change | Making our future sustainable
March 31, 2013 AppearancesSince climate change affects all of us, it seems appropriate that we all should have a voice at the decision-making table. All too often though, we only get to hear from the academics, the heads of…
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Africa’s gerontocracy isn’t going to last much longer – The Globe and Mail
March 31, 2013 AppearancesAt 68, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni is nearly five decades older than his country’s newly sworn-in MP Proscovia Alengot Oromait, who wasn’t even born when her head of state was first elected to office 26 years…
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Africa’s booming tech space will define the continent’s future – The Globe and Mail
March 31, 2013 AppearancesI posit that Africa’s tech space is positioning itself to offer a similar magical combination of factors that will allow Africa’s digerati to define themselves. In 2009, Africa’s population topped one billion for the first time…
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Was thrilled when Guardian asked me to pen a piece on social media and the African Diaspora: So long as our collective voice and our money continue to engage the continent, our political influence won’t be…
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