Profile

Safiyya Daba, a Nigerian amateur photographer cum techie, was one of the winners at the recently held Agenda 2063 Africa Photojournalism Awards, an initiative of African Women in Media (AWiM), in collaboration with African Union and German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ/GmbH)     By Adam Alqali   When Safiyya…

The appointment of twenty-three-year-old Emma Theofelus as Member of Parliament and deputy minister for Information and Communications Technology in the Republic of Namibia made her the country’s youngest MP cum Africa’s youngest minister.     On March 23, Emma Theofelus, the 23-year-old Namibian lawyer and social justice activist, was appointed…

After seven rounds of voting characterized by intense diplomatic battle, at the last AU Summit, South Africa’s Wamkele Mene emerged the first-ever Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) secretariat, to be headquartered in Accra, Ghana     Forty-two-year-old Wamkele Mene is a top trade diplomat, who until…

“Today, in a site where deforestation has taken place for my 26 week of #FridayForFuture  To draw my leader’s [leaders’] attention to this issues. You are not too old to standup for our planet-earth, you can still make a difference because our earth needs you while you are alive,” tweeted…