Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Africa'
You Either Work or You Die: Mob 'Justice' in Uganda
by Jemma Williams -Australia- It was Christmas day in Fort Portal, Uganda. A large group of people had gathered by the roadside and were all moving in one direction. At the front were the younger men. Many of them carried...
Kheliwe's Story: Male Polygamy and HIV Infection in Malawi
by Lerato Manyozo -Malawi- Even before we begin talking, Kheliwe* has tears in her eyes. She is HIV positive and still battling to come to terms with the fact that her husband, now deceased, infected her on her matrimonial bed....
Women Leaders: Africa’s Available Yet Underutilized Resource
by Susan Enuogbope Majekodunmi -USA- My maternal grandfather’s mantra was, “Educate a woman, and you feed and educate her family.” He educated his daughters when Nigerian fathers rarely did. My grandfather was also very interested in my education and often...
“Informal Settlement” Status Discriminates Against Residents in Africa’s Largest Slum
by Liz McGinn -UK- Every year the BBC runs a huge televised fundraising event called Comic Relief. Its aim is to raise as much money as possible for worthwhile causes in the UK and Africa. The fundraising, undertaken by both...
In the Sinai Desert, Radio Sharm is Live and Well
by Victoria Aitken -UK- The Sinai desert has a new underground radio station - the only one to escape a ban on live radio transmissions - and it is breaking records for a radio station of its size. Radio Sharm’s...
Tapestries of Hope: Director Michealene Cristini Risley on the Tenacity and Optimism of Zimbabwe’s Rape Survivors
by Jessica Mosby - USA - The most striking element of the new documentary Tapestries of Hope is not the hell that the young rape survivors profiled have lived through, but their unbreakable spirit. The film is a vibrant international...
Gender Parity Report Finds Zambia’s Media Houses Lagging
by Delphine Zulu - Zambia - One of the key challenges facing Zambian female journalists is sexual harassment. “There are very few female Zambian journalists who have not experienced sexual harassment at the hands of male counterparts, [but] few [cases]...
Ethiopia: The “Cradle of Civilization” Struggles for Survival
Photoessay by Tammy Law - Australia - One of the oldest countries in the world, Ethiopia is often referred to as “the cradle of civilization” – a country with a tumultuous past, present and future, and yet at the same...
Refusing Silence, Rejecting Simplification:
Kenyan Activist Philo Ikonya Battles Corruption
by Shailja Patel - Kenya - And they asked him: Why do you sing? And he answered, as they seized him: I sing because I sing And they searched his chest But could only find his heart And they searched...
Africa Steps Up the Fight Against Maternal and Child Deaths
by Pilirani Semu-Banda - Malawi - The very survival of women and children in Africa may depend on the newly-launched Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA). According to latest estimates by the African Union (AU), over...
E-waste: America's Electronics Feed the Global Digital Dump
by Michelle Chen - USA - The landscape of Guiyu, a remote town in China’s Guangdong province, embodies a collision between past and future. Amid acidic plumes of smoke and vast mountains of trash, migrants scour for valuable scraps using...
Pray the Devil Back to Hell: Liberian Women Bring Peace to their War-Torn Country
by Jessica Mosby - USA - The recent history of Liberia is bloody. Valuable natural resources, corrupt leaders, ethnic conflicts, and thousands of displaced people led to 8 years of conflict during Liberia’s two civil wars (1989-1993 and 1999-2003). Many...
The Gorée Gazette Tackles the Realities of Economic Migration from Africa
by Blaire Dessent - France - For the 2008 Dak’Art Biennial, an international art exhibition held in Dakar, Senegal, a group of artists and thinkers associated with the Action Lab project of the Brooklyn-based freeDimensional (fD), collaborated on the production...
The Harsh Economics of the Global Water Crisis: “water is the oil of this century”
by Julie Chowdhury - Sweden - Every morning when you wake up and perform what you may perceive as insignificant chores, you might not realize that for 2.6 billion people around the world, your morning shower or just one flush...
Poor Kenyans Still Grapple with Jigger Infestation
by Joyce J. Wangui - Kenya - Young Kamau carries a heavy bucket of water on his head. Clad in tattered clothes that barely conceal his ill-nourished body, the young boy is aware that the cameras are focused not on...
Skin Bleaching Thrives Despite Ugandan Government Ban on Dangerous Cosmetics
by Halima Abdallah Kisule - Uganda - Scores of Ugandans continue to bleach their skin despite a government ban on the sale of several lotions, creams, gels and soaps which are largely used to whiten, even and tone the skin....
How to Solve the Food Crisis: Cut trade barriers and start a Green Revolution in Africa, says Jeffrey Sachs
by Eva Sohlman - Sweden - In Haiti people eat cakes baked with mud for lack of flour. In Bangladesh, Indonesia and across Africa, riots are spreading among the hungry. And in the world’s richest country, the United States, the...
Saving Mothers, Saving Children: The 2008 Mother’s Report
by Marianne Taflinger - USA - In Sweden, a doctor delivers Sari, and her family celebrates what will be the beginning of a long life, probably 83 years or more. She’ll attend at least 17 years of school and if...
Kenya’s Kazuri Bead Factory Allows Women from Kibera Slum to Build New Lives
by Sarah Wyatt - USA - Years of hardship and backbreaking labor in the riot-stricken slums of Kibera in south Kenya have worn 18 year old Eshe Koome to the bone. A single mother of two, she walked out on...
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
by Jessica Mosby - USA - “Rape has always been used as a weapon of war” is the opening line of the new documentary film The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. For 76 minutes the film exposes the incredibly...
Obstetric Fistula: A Medical Nightmare for Malawian Women
by Pilirani Semu-Banda - Malawi - Veronica Yakobe has been living a nightmare for more than two decades. Twenty-three years ago, during a prolonged labor when giving birth to her fifth child, the unborn baby was pressed so tightly in...
Corruption Reduces the Basic Need for Water and Adequate Sanitation to an Elusive Dream for Billions
by Tess Raposas - Philippines - In coastal communities all over the Philippines, it is ironic that seawater is abundant everywhere but effectively, there’s not a drop of clean water to drink. But the problem exists throughout the country, and...
Angels in the Dust: A Glimmer of Hope in HIV/AIDS Epidemic
by Jessica Mosby USA 100 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa will have been infected with HIV/AIDS by the year 2010. Another 26 million children will be orphaned by the virus. The idea that two ordinary people could affect, much less...
4th Annual International AIDS Society Conference Addresses Successes and Failures in the Global Fight Against the Virus
by Imelda V. Abaño Philippines • Opening session of the conference. Photograph courtesy of AIS 2007 •The AIDS epidemic remains a global crisis; its impact will be felt for decades to come. Today, as when it was officially first recognized...
Film Review - The Devil Came on Horseback: A US Marine Is Witness to Slaughter in Darfur
by Jessica Mosby USA • Image courtesy of IFC •The United Nations defines genocide as “acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” To date, some 200,000 people have...
Defiant Cont Mhlanga’s Latest Play Banned But He Vows To Continue with Protest Theater
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - Hopefully, readers may remember the piece I wrote for The WIP in May 2007 about prominent Zimbabwean playwright Cont Mhlanga, and the premiere of his most recent and controversial play yet, “The Good President.”...
HIV/AIDS Epidemic Raging Among Men Having Sex with Men (MSM): amFAR Announces New Initiative in Sydney to Address the Crisis
by Imelda V. Abaño & Esther Nakkazi Philippines/Uganda Reporting from Sydney, Australia One of the greatest public health failures in the fight against AIDS is the world’s inability to prevent widespread HIV infection among Men who have Sex with Men...
Local African Designs Speak the Language of Youth
by Rosemary Okello Kenya Walking through Mefa Creations, a local organization specializing in African designs and located along Ngong Road in Nairobi, you are greeted with bold African colors, local jewelry and clothing made from African fabrics. • Evelyn Odongo...
Even As Traditional Art in Malawi Begins to Prosper, Its Future Is Threatened
by Pilirani Semu-Banda Malawi Over 65 percent of Malawi's 12 million people live below the poverty line of less than $1 a day, while an additional 22 percent are categorized as “ultra-poor.” The average annual income of Malawi is only...
Orphaned by AIDS, Millions of Children in Asia Face an Uncertain Future
by Imelda V. Abaño Philippines Helena, from Hyderabad, India, lost her father when she was 13 and her mother when she was 15, both from AIDS-related illnesses. And now at age 18, she is the head of the household, looking...
Riveting New Play, The Good President, Boldly Satirizes a Government That Victimizes Its Own People
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - Zimbabwean theatre lovers have had something to talk about for the past two weeks. Cont Mhlanga's riveting new play, The Good President, premiered here in Harare, Zimbabwe, on April 12. This politically charged satire,...
Francophonie Offers Platform for Cultural Exchange
by Glory Mushinge Zambia The past week saw some of Lusaka’s top members of the diplomatic community from Francophone embassies in Zambia, get carried away with festivities for ten straight days and nights, between the 15th to the 25th of...
PMTCT: Uganda's Effort to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of AIDS
By Esther Nakkazi Uganda The number of pregnant women in Uganda accessing Nevirapine, the drug that stops mothers from passing HIV to their newborn babies, is rapidly growing with all districts in the country now offering the service. Health officials...
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