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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…

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…

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…

Since 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…

At 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…

I 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…

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…

(CNN) — While the developed nations drag their feet on inclusive trade agreements with emerging markets, Africa is busy redefining itself. Most of the continent’s countries — remnants of colonial rule — are barely 50 years…

For the past 6 months, I had the privilege of facilitating dialog between 25 global young leaders who were selected into the 2013 class of McGill Echenberg Fellowship. This week, we converged in frigid Montreal for…