"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
African music legend and UNICEF ambassador, Angélique Kidjo is in London to discuss her new book: Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music. The book details the life and career journeys of the Benin-born musician.
As the Ebola nightmare continues in Liberia and as we battle to contain the epidemic, it is important to look beyond the immediate crisis. Many more lives will be lost before this dreadful outbreak is beaten, but to properly honor the memory of the victims we need to ask how it happened in the first place and, more pressingly, how we can prevent it from happening again, writes Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
‘Children just need to be allowed to grow to their full potential and good things will follow’, write Noel Marie Zagre, UNICEF’s Regional Nutrition Adviser for Eastern & Southern Africa, and Gary Quince, Head of the European Union Delegation to the African Union.
Cape Town – A family’s adoption story is made into a music video campaign to help children.
Nigeria acts to reduce HIV/AIDS transmission from mothers to babies, as it accounts for one third of new infections amongst children in sub-Saharan Africa’s twenty worst-hit countries.
Harare – Young girls given greater opportunities to develop technological skills and pursue careers in the fields of science, mathematics and technology.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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