This week’s double Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) article is, well, not about FMCG but important in our series about the sector. The first part of this two-part article looks at education which is an investment opportunity that will support all growth in Africa, including FMCG. The second part will [...]
Simba Makarera and Martin Ganda, co-founders of Seeds of Africa Foundation, both grew up in Zimbabwe. Their childhoods were certainly different, but they had at least one thing in common, which was to get a good education – and that wasn’t an easy task.
“Education is the key to success.”" This is a quote that has been repeated in many parts of the world. But could this be true when uttered to a child in Mathare who sees not even a glimpse of light from the life ahead?”
Eugenia Lee of the Dignitas Project describes, in this first post of a series for Africa.com, her work to train teachers in the urban slum of Mathare, in Nairobi, Kenya.
“The most urgent priority is to ensure access to, and improve the quality of, education for girls and women, and to remove every obstacle that hampers their active participation.”
Most schools in Tanzania that do exist are overcrowded and lacking such basic resources as qualified teachers, books, desks and chairs, bathrooms, and more. Any available classroom spots rarely go to girls. In fact, less than one percent of girls in Tanzania ever complete secondary school.
Happy New Year from the Africa.com Editorial Staff! Announcing the winners of the 2010 Top 10 Contest.
McKinsey & Company recently produced a comprehensive study, How the World’s Most Improved School Systems Keep Getting Better.
“Why does a rainbow appear in the sky?”
“What is an eclipse?”
“Why are there crop failures?”
“What are these called in Mende?”
“What do our elders think are the reasons?”
“How does science explain them?”
Maps can really make us stop and say “wow!” When I was a child my social studies classroom had a map depicting Greenland and Africa as the same size. Was it really possible that a little country like Denmark could claim a territory as large as the continent of Africa? The answer of course was no, but only because the map turned out to be warped (literally) and grossly misleading.
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