Love Letter To Africa by Koleka Putuma.
#Malawi
Rachel Sibande is the founder of M-Hub, Malawi’s first technology hub. It is an incubator for technology startups with a special focus on building young tech entrepreneurs by offering them training, skills development and mentorship. The hub invests its profits in social good programs that build capacities of children, girls and youth in developing technology applications. Ultimately, M-Hub wants to be the prime software solution provider in the nation and beyond, employing skills of young Malawians, shares Sibande. [via Africa.com]
#SouthAfrica
Congratulations to Caster Semenya for smashing the 18-year old 400m national record at the 21st African Athletics Championships in Asaba, Nigeria!
Semenya stopped the clock in a national record of 49.96.
She now holds national records in the 400m, 800m, 1 000m and 1 500m events. Well done! [via M&G]
#SouthAfrica
Congratulations to Shireen Mentor, a 29-year-old PhD student from the University of Western Cape, who has been named one of the world’s top young scientists, earning a scholarship to study in the USA.
She was one of six South African female scientists nominated by the Academy of Science of South Africa to attend the event. She was chosen and set of earlier this month.
Her research has been focused on understanding addiction, a disease that is rife among the residents of the Cape Flats. It was this that led to her receiving an incredible opportunity to head to the USA. [via Good Things Guy]
#TheGambia
Five Gambians who graduated from The Gambia College have co-authored a book with the Academic of Fine Arts in the University of Helsinki, Finland titled: “Sand and Indigo.” The book has been launched and set to be used at the Department of Fine Arts in the Helsinki University. [via The Point]
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