africa
CPD Research Fellow Lindsay J. Benstead and her colleagues assess the impact of Western donor's advocacy on women's rights in Malawi.
Colin Maclay talked with Nicholas Cull about the media importance of the film.
The conference will mark the establishment of the African Centre for the Study of the United States.
Principal Investigator:
Zahid Shahab Ahmed, CPD Research Fellow 2017-19
According to Markos Kounalakis, without a defined foreign policy, the United States' influence in Africa is likely to decline.
Over two thousand women received training in e-marketing, bead-making, cloth weaving, soap, air freshener, shoe making, hair-do, waste-to-wealth and make-up, among other skills at this year’s 10th African Arts and Craft Expo in Abuja. The 22-day expo, which ended last Sunday, also provided free medical tests for blood sugar and Body Mass Index for about 1,120 Nigerians, who could not afford such exercises. Also, 200 Nigerians were given free eye glasses while 620 got free dental test.
It is well known that education is one of the most powerful tools to help people escape from poverty. [...] The problem is that, although governments in sub-Saharan Africa, for example, dedicate on average 18% of their public funds to education, a huge 43% of the region’s population are under the age of 15. This high percentage means that governments are all too often unable to keep up with demand for quality, affordable education.