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You have to love your people to lead them
Too often, leadership is seduced by power. The allure of authority, prestige and influence can slowly overwhelm the original motivation to serve people. What begins as a…
OPINION | Global warming is here, it is no longer a thing of the future
South Africa needs to improve its resilience against climate related catastrophes such as floods, locust swarms and increasing temperatures
‘Break vicious cycle that deters girls in science’
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, who served as the first female president of Mauritius from 2015- to 2018, has also had success in higher education, winning top awards in science
New dictionary provides nuanced insights into the language of African politics
A dictionary of African politics reveals the witty and insightful political terminology that people in different African countries use.
Ma Africa leads the way
Graça Machel is the example of someone reaching out to other women and lifting them up
Kenya bids farewell to ‘green Nobel’ Maathai
Hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai at a park in central Nairobi.
Seeds of ‘the acacia’ take root
Nobel-winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai’s legacy was to provide shelter for the withering Earth.
Maathai ‘belongs in the league of Mandela’
South Africans paid tribute on Monday to late Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Muta Maathai, who died in a Nairobi hospital on Monday.
Nobel laureate Maathai dies in hospital
Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai has died in hospital where she was undergoing treatment for cancer.
Breaking South Sudan’s vicious cycle
Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai says South Sudan’s stability is threatened by ongoing conflict and the legacy of decades of civil war.
Maathai boosts Kenyan opposition to biofuels project
Kenya will regret its failure to protect the environment, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai said on Sunday.
Women face tougher impact from climate change
Climate change is harder on women in poor countries, where mothers stay in areas hit by drought, deforestation or crop failure as men move to literally greener pastures, a Nobel…
Kenya’s Wangari Maathai sees war on the horizon
Kenya’s political rivals are haggling over a settlement to the crisis sparked by disputed elections, but if the squabbling doesn’t bear fruit, the ordinarily stable East African…
Kibaki in close fight to keep power in Kenya
Early forecasts showed Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki in a close fight on Friday with his main challenger after an election diplomats praised as smooth, despite sporadic violence…