Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the cost of higher education continues to rise, many families are finding it difficult to pay for their children’s university education. The financial burden can be even greater for working families. However, with a tuition loan, families can provide their children with the education …
Read More »African women leaders in business and tech
Businesses have an important role to play in re-addressing the role of both men and women in all spheres COMMENT | Sinit Zeru & Ebere Okereke | While there are increasingly more African women in leadership roles, they are still significantly under-represented but there are a number of things businesses can do …
Read More »Want gender justice?
Investing in women lawyers counters the limited aid and philanthropy and pushes gender equality forward COMMENT | Sabrina Mahtani | One of my mentors, human rights lawyer Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff of Sierra Leone, once told me: “Individuals can be broken, they can be silenced. But it is very hard to kill an organisation …
Read More »Reimagining global integration
Despite recent globalisation in retreat narratives, worldwide supply flows suggest it is here to stay COMMENT | Olivia White & Jonathan Woetzel | Global trade still conjures images of giant container ships. But our world has changed. The transport of physical goods across borders is no longer the only, or even the …
Read More »The culture-war trap
What is interesting, however, is how much left-wing and right-wing intolerance have in common COMMENT | Ian Buruma | The United States is in the midst of a book-banning frenzy. According to PEN America, 1,648 books were prohibited in public schools across the country between July 2021 and June 2022. That number …
Read More »Digitizing women financing to drive inclusion
The majority of financially excluded women are in the informal sector and hard-to-reach areas, which requires innovative financing solutions to reach out to them – innovations in digital financial inclusion with a special focus on women is, therefore, necessary to improve the financial inclusion standing of the women COMMENT | …
Read More »COMMENT: Is MTN Uganda on the verge of becoming a bank?
COMMENT | MOSES KAKETO | Imagine waking up one day to find MTN Uganda operating electric purses, issuing debit cards and prepaid cards, taking fixed deposits, and investing some of the money they get in bonds and securities. Industry experts apparently believe this to be a fairly accurate dream. The road to the …
Read More »John Nagenda; Why the press hates and loves him big too
FROM THE ARCHIVES | ANDREW MWENDA | I wrote this article about John Nagenda in THE MONITOR in 1996. If I was to write an eulogy of him today, I would still write the same. ******* By Andrew M. Mwenda ( The Monitor 1996) Presidential Advisor on the Media and …
Read More »Ecology as New Enlightenment
Experience suggests the 18th century Enlightenment vision of individuals emancipated of nature was flawed COMMENT | Corine Pelluchon | Enlightenment ideas of scientific rationalism and technological domination have led us to the edge of an abyss. Unless we embrace a new Enlightenment one that places ecology and care at its core we …
Read More »The dark side of neutrality
It is obscene to blame Ukraine for Russian acts of destruction or its resistance as a rejection of peace COMMENT | Slavoj Žižek | Last May, before being newly re-elected as president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, bear …
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