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    Are UK banks aiding & abetting corruption in Africa?

    January 15, 2019

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    Mari-Anne Chiromo

    As a follow up to my post about Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's talk, I wanted to focus on one area she touched on, i.e. the nervousness around doing business in Africa because of the perceived corruption all over the continent.  

    As she rightly points out, Africa is a conti...

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    Who runs the world? Well girls of course!

    November 15, 2018

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    John-Paul Iwuoha (title by Mari-Anne Chiromo)

    According to the #MasterCard Index, #Africa has the world’s highest rate of women entrepreneurs at 27%. In fact, two African countries, #Uganda (34.8%) and #Botswana (34.6%), have the highest percentage of women #entrepreneurs in the world.

    There is also a rise in the...

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    10 years and still the same tune...

    July 5, 2017

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    Mari-Anne Chiromo

    I watched a fascinating Ted Talk a couple of days ago which is a 10 year old talk from all the way back in 2007.  It was absolutely brilliant and I hadn't even realised till the end how old it was!  It was fascinating, and I found myself reflecting on whether the messa...

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    Diaspora Challenge: Unleashing Africa’s secret weapon…

    June 23, 2017

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    Mari-Anne Chiromo

    There's SO MUCH creativity in Africa and among the diasporan community that left the continent.  What was termed the 'brain drain' saw many of the continent's brightest leave because of various reasons from lack of opportunity to perception of better opportunities.  Th...

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    Paying it forward...or is it back homeward?

    May 18, 2017

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    Mari-Anne Chiromo

    Johns Hopkins grad from Nigeria wants to help hospitals in West Africa go digital.  OneMedical, founded by WSE alum Adegoke Olubusi, is among 15 finalists in Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge

    For so many reasons, I just LOVE this!  There is so much power and benef...

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    To meet Moses is to understand Positive Afritude

    November 29, 2016

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    Gina Wilson

    Meet Moses. Moses has a spirit larger than life and a personality that shines like sunbeams. Moses is what Africa is all about. Entrepreneurship, persistence, effervescence!
     

    Disabled by polio at 8,  Moses is a tailor who worked in a factory for many years in South Afr...

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    {he}ART of Africa... Stretching the canvas between the UK & Africa!

    October 11, 2016

    "With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas; thought by thought, choice by choice" Oprah Winfrey.
     

    Banksy... Willi Dorner... Gogo Mahlangu... IYASA... What do their styles have in common? Absolutely nothing. That's the beauty of art!! It's personal a...

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    Impossible is NOTHING: here's my plan to change the world.

    July 16, 2015

     When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother what I would be... No I didn't.  The whole "que sera, sera - whatever will be, will be" thing didn't work for me.  I was and still am more of an "it will be what you make it" type of person.  I actually always had the p...

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    The thing about African Aid: When help is decidedly unhelpful

    June 25, 2015

    “And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same”

     

    A very apt quote from Nelson Mandela which resonated strongly as I contemplated this article.

     

    Around 600 million Africans still don't have electricity in their homes. SIX....