Where are our leaders? We are tired, I am tired. We are angry, I am angry. We just want to live comfortably. by Similoluwa Ifedayo When overwhelmed, I disconnect from people, from places, from events, from social media, from the news, and the most relevant one to this article, my country, Nigeria. It is not …

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by Lilian Elochukwu Terna-Ayua The 5th of February saw the expiration of the New START treaty between the United States and Russia. For the first time in decades, there are no legally binding caps on the world’s two largest nuclear powers, and no formal verification process ensuring transparency between the two countries. The icon of …

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by Joyce Wachau Chege The community is paying the price every day. For a town so small that everyone knows everyone, news travels fast whenever tragedy strikes. For a town bustling with so much energy and life, it has a tendency of growing on you. The allure is definitely there and one cannot help but …

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G Sai Prashanth India’s Information Technology (IT) sector contributes significantly to the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Something that was once the most important and most profound sector in the country now undergoes “Metamorphosis,” if I can call it that. Constant change and adaptation to the evolving new policies, reforms, and changes have resulted in …

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by Joyce Wachau Chege I just turned a year older on February 12. This Latin phrase has, for me, been an apt reflection that I will either find a way or make one. I have been repeating it to myself for quite some time, not only as a mantra of bravado that I show the …

Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam: No Backing Down. Read More »

by Joyce Wachau Chege There are days I leave work tired and all I want is to catch a sunset. So, I go to the rooftop of the building where I live and stare into the horizon, my bag still on my right shoulder, and take some photos of the sunset. To my far right, …

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by: Hadia Khan As the 16 DaysofActivism campaign against gender-based violence comes to an end, we must go UNMUTED. We are at a critical juncture where decades of hard-won progress in gender justice are threatened by a new, rapidly intensifying frontier of abuse: digital violence. This form of harm is spreading at an alarming speed, …

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