Interviews

Yacine Djibo is the executive director of Speak Up Africa, a policy and advocacy action tank dedicated to catalyzing leadership, enabling policy change, and increasing awareness for sustainable development in Africa     Newspage: Tell us what Speak Up Africa is about? Djibo: Speak Up Africa is a nonprofit policy…

Aya Chebbi of Tunisia is the first-ever youth envoy of the African Union. Her appointment in November 2018 boosts the AU’s efforts to include the talents and skills of the continent’s bulging youth population in achieving its Agenda 2063, a framework for Africa’s socioeconomic transformation. Ms. Chebbi is expected to promote,…

Basirat Nahibi-Niasse is the founder of Women Advancement for Economic and Leadership Foundation in Africa (WAELE Africa), a non-profit focused on empowering African women, economically and politically as well as ensuring their participation in peace and conflict transformation across 52 countries on the continent.   AN: The Women Advancement for…

Lawalley Cole is the Executive Director of the Coalition on Media and Education for Development Africa Forum (CAFOR) committed to ensuring that education systems in Africa are relevant to looked-for skills by young Africans and correspond with what obtains on the continent’s labour market    AN: How did the Coalition…

Professor Michel Kazatchkine, who was at the South Africa Science Forum 2018 in Pretoria, is a former executive director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; a partnership between governments, civil society, private sector, and people affected by the diseases aimed at accelerating the global fight against…

Abdulrazak Ibrahim is the capacity development officer of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), African Union’s apex organization responsible for coordinating and advocating for agricultural research for development (AR4D)   What is the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) is all about? The Forum for Agricultural Research…

  Namhla Mniki-Mangaliso is the co- chair of the Africa CSO Working Group on SDGs and executive director of the African Monitor, a nonprofit working with youth movements across 10 African countries to produce citizen-generated data on the progress being made in achieving the SDGs Namhla Mniki-Mangaliso, co- chair of …

  Kijala Shako, who was at the recently held African Youth SDGs Summit in Accra, is the active citizenship and engagement advisor  for the Pan Africa Programme (PAP); Oxfam’s advocacy, campaigns and influencing agency engaging citizens and institutions in the realization of an Africa that is self-reliant, democratic, peaceful  …

Diakhoumba Gassama, who was at therecently held African Youth SDGs Summit in Accra, Ghana, is the Africa regionalactivism and youths coordinator for Amnesty International. She speaks about howthe goals of the Summit align with that of Amnesty as well as the absence ofthe African Union at the Summit    …

Azna Fall Ndiaye is the Senegal country representative of New Faces New Voices (NFNV), a network of African women entrepreneurs under the Graca Machel Trust aimed at bridging funding gap for women-owned businesses in Africa     By Adam Alqali and Abdullahi Tsanni   The NFNV Senegal Chapter was established…