Our WCW today is an activist from Zimbabwe. Talent Jumo describes herself as a dynamic and passionate feminist activist. She is the founder and Director of Katswe Sistahood, a young women’s organisation based in Harare, Zimbabwe. She has more than 13 years experience working on women and health programmes, particularly on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), HIV and AIDS.
South African music icon Brenda Fassie is one of the 30 women featured in a comic book anthology, Femme Magnifique, which salutes women who crack ceilings, female trailblazers of yesterday and today. The story is a biographical look at Fassie’s life and cultural legacy.
10-time Grammy Award winner, multi-platinum selling American artist John Legend will be returning to South Africa with his highly anticipated Darkness and Light Global tour. Legend’s latest album Darkness and Light has been a global smash hit with top 10 singles “Love Me Now” and “Penthouse Floor” featuring Chance the Rapper.
Today we meet, Thato Kgatlhanye (24) a young woman who is a goal getter and assured about what she wants. At the age of 18 she founded Rethaka, which produces recycled schoolbags that double up as solar-powered lights that children can use to study at night.
These four youths have their dreams anchored in Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria and Zimbabwe their home countries, but their daily realities are defined by America – by the immediate challenges in their MIT classrooms, as well as the larger social issues confronting the world outside of those classrooms.
Meet our MCM today, Malawian Mike Chilewe Jnr (27) the founder, and owner of a multimedia advertising firm, Innovertising, as well as Lala Limited, a holding company involved in various activities from manufacturing toilet paper to agricultural exports.
Stella Mwangi continues to outdo herself and establishing herself firmly as an African musician par excellence. Set it Off her latest offering has been picked as theatrical music score and trailer soundtrack on Hollywood film: A Bad Moms Christmas, which is set to premier in the USA on the 3rd November, 2017.
Bessie Head, an author, teacher and journalist was born to a white woman and black man on this day in 1937. Bessie and her husband, Harold Head were both anti-apartheid activists. In celebration of the birth of one of the finest female African writers on the continent we bring you our favourite quotes from her.
In May 2017, South African rapper Cassper Nyovest released his latest album, the 16-track Thuto. Uzoma Ihejirika says the album contains ruminations on the past, cheery predictions for the future, and a deep-seated appreciation for the present.
When Godfrey Magila was six years old, his relatives had to hide everything electronic from him as they would find it dismantled. For instance instead of watching the television, he would dismantle it. The 25 year-old Tanzanian, who is the founder of Magilatech a software development and security auditing firm is our Man Crush Monday for today.
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