Anonymous's blog A mother knows. “This child is brilliant,” Harriet Okaka says about her one-year-old son, Abraham. She isn’t bragging, just observing. “I can tell, just by looking at him,” she says, “the way he plays, the way he is.” Harriet, 33, ...
Anonymous's blog Roger Thurow’s next book will tell the story of the vital importance of proper nutrition and health care in the 1,000 days window from the beginning of a woman’s pregnancy to her child’s second birthday. “The 1,000 days period is the ...
Anonymous's blog In a report launched today – a valuable yardstick called, A Growing Opportunity: Measuring Investments in African Agriculture – ONE reviews the past decade and finds some notable successes in terms of mustering money and political ...
Anonymous's blog As the ballots were being counted in the recent Kenya election, I saw photos of people displaying the encouraging message: Give Peace a Chance. So far, that sentiment seems to be holding. Equally important for the future of the coun ...
Anonymous's blog Kabuchai, Kenya There’s a building boom going on in this western Kenya village. The blueprint for Zipporah and Sanet Biketi’s new house is coming to life. The walls, made of some 4,000 bricks formed by Sanet’s hands, are standing ta ...
Anonymous's blog Kimilili, Kenya The young man from the farm was looking smart in an olive green suit, salmon tie and cufflinks. His black shoes were a bit scuffed, but his English was polished. “We are moving forward,” he said. “Forward ever, bac ...
Nearly 55 years after shedding its colonial ties to Great Britain, many view Nigeria as a bundle of contradictions. It is Africa’s largest economy, yet the majority of its people live on less than a dollar a day. It spends rigorously on security operations ...
In his book, The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change, Chicago Council Senior Fellow Roger Thurow tells the story of a community of Kenyan farmers working to transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger, and illumina ...
When Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Albie Sachs returned to South Africa to help write the country’s new constitution. His role as one of the principal architects of the non-racial, non-sexist constitution was a central moment in a life and caree ...
Child soldiers rarely join a war because they want to fight – they are usually kidnapped and forced. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of child soldiers fighting in at least 25 countries. Ishmael Beah, stolen into Sierra Leone’s civil war, experienced ...
