Podcasting has brought audio conversations to the digital age. The podcast boom in the MENA region is especially exciting for Egyptian women right at the centre of it. When Egyptian audiophiles and creatives started looking at podcasting as a powerful tool, they had to think of just how to stand out. The Egyptian Streets Podcast…
In a recent interview with the South African freelance photojournalist Sumaya Hisham, she said to me: “As a freelancer, it feels like my job is more full-time than it is freelance.” As soon as she finishes shooting and editing, she is back on the hunt for the next job, pitching stories, travelling, and doing the…
Many of Morocco’s most marginalised girls have modest ambitions and limited resources. Even just getting through secondary school can be difficult with financial and family pressures. That’s why the help nonprofits offer can be transformative. The most empowering organisations strive to provide more than just the bare necessities. They succeed by ensuring communities are heard…
Jacqueline Mwakyambiki talks to Fadhila Sadala of AWiM News about why she decided to establish Mbeya’s most popular media outlet and platform. Growing up in Mbeya, located in the Southern West of Tanzania, Jacqueline Mwakyambiki always wanted to be a businessperson. However, she had a passion to be a mass communicator to reach a lot…
Makumi Matano* is a 10- year-old, Standard Three pupil at Amani Primary School in the Mwanza Region of Tanzania. Her academic performance dropped as a result of her parents overworking her thus denying her time to study. I spend much time doing household chores and performing small businesses. I don’t have any time to concentrate…
Witnessing a seemingly peaceful gathering turn into chaos, people getting shot dead right before her eyes, sights of restless parents waiting for their abducted family members to return home, listening to agonising tales of traumatized victims tell their experiences, seeing emancipated underage children who have just been released by bandits or escaping being raped or…
With the rising cases of sexual assault, one Nigerian woman lawyer decided to come up with a mobile app to put this to a stop. Moved by her personal experience as well as that of her childhood best friend who was raped and compelled not to speak up for fear of stigmatization, Omowumi Ogunrotimi, a…
From Minna, a not-so-famous city in Niger State, Nigeria, the story of a young female journalist with a burning desire to make an impact in the world through her little means began and has since blossomed into full bloom. Justina Ashishana began her journalism career as an intern at The Nation newspaper in 2011 upon…
MAFETENG – In the rural district of Mafeteng, Lesotho, lies a small village called Motsekuoa in which the Convent of the Handmaids of Christ the Priest is located. This convent is home to 58-year-old Sister Julia ‘Masina Mafike, H.C.P, a nun who is making strides in conserving biodiversity through beekeeping. The United Nations Environment Programme …
Kerawa It is one of those hot mornings in the Kerawa Refugee Camp in Cameroon’s arid Far North region. So hot that by 8 AM, temperatures are soaring up to 47 degrees Celcius. A good number of the women and children displaced by the recent intercommunal clashes are up and about. At one end of…
Matebeleland Meryline Ncube wakes up in the wee hours of the day, she heads to the Kasibo Garden which is a result of a protected wetland. At this garden, she is expecting buyers from the nearby Hwange mining town to come for vegetables for resale. In her tattered wrapping cloth, she energetically grades the vegetables…
Chikwawa Twenty-eight-year-old Bertha Malefula dreads any sign of rain. Malefula who hails from Traditional Authority (T/A) Maseya in the flood-prone district of Chikwawa in Southern Malawi, had experienced two devastating flood disasters in her life. In January this year, the mother of three watched everything she had worked so hard for vanish due to the…
