Category: Interview
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Anas Aremayew Anas – Why I Name, Shame and Jail
Anas Aremeyaw Anas is a Ghanaian investigative journalist whose motto is “Name, Shame and Jail” and is famous for utilizing his anonymity as a tool in his investigative armory, his work focuses on issues of human rights and anti-corruption in Ghana and throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Anas’s work has earned him rave reviews on the continent…
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Akon Lighting Africa – Transforming Africa through Energy
Akon Lighting Africa Akon and Thione Niang, the co-founders of Akon Lighting Africa with Samba Bathily, both grew up in Kaolack, Senegal, a town without electricity. It is their childhood memories and personal experience of a “life without light” that fuels their commitment to lighting Africa. The two began discussing what they could do to…
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Tap Speaks with Jennifer Makumbi
Jennifer is a Ugandan woman writer who currently resides in Britain after 10 to 13 years of study. She writes prose, short stories but mainly novels. Her work is focused on bringing the Ugandan experience to the attention of international readership, but mainly to engage Ugandans in looking at themselves from a writer’s point of…
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Tsitsi Ndangarembga – A cannon of African and feminist literature
A cannon of African and feminist literature Tsitsi Dangarembga is one of Africa’s most recognized authors, filmmakers and cultural activists. While she first garnered international recognition for her novel, Nervous Conditions, which won the Commonwealth Literature Prize in 1989, she has since gained recognition as a film writer, director and producer and has worked on over…
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Obesity Among Kenyan and Canadian Children-By Dr Stella Muthuri
Dr. Stella Muthuri research aimed at investigating the prevalence of, and factors associated with physical activity and overweight/obesity among school aged children in Kenya and Canada. This research involved examining the influence of social determinants of health such as school environments, neighborhoods, and home environments, and their effects on youth in relation to physical activity…
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Interview with Dr. Richard Sezibera, EAC Secretary General
Interview with Dr. Richard Sezibera, EAC Secretary General Meet Dr. Richard Sezibera: East African Community (EAC) is one of the most vibrant regional blocks today! After long periods of skepticism and negativity this integration project has taken a turn. Currently, people in other African union ‘building blocks’ such as those in the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS) and the ones that belong…
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Exclusive Interview With East Africa’s HipHop Sensation “VoodooSeller”
How many African Hip Hop artists do you know? Could you name five? Of those five, who is your favourite? While hiphop in America has slowly lost its cutting edge, or if your Nas “dead”! In Africa its the opposite. Hip-Hop is on the up and up, It is slowly replacing RnB, it is, the…
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Meet Alicios Theluji – East Africa’s singing sensation
Born Alice Zeluji (Zeluji is the same as Theluji; except that Zeluji is with a Congolese Swahili accent) in the Democratic republic of Congo, Kivu Province, Alicios has quickly claimed the respect of her peers, fans, music executives, industry producers with her first signle. It is safe to say that she’s now the really deal…