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Are Africa’s women on the rise?
This was the question question recently explored by Malawian women’s rights campaigner Jessie Kabwila for the BBC’s Africa Debate programme last week. There have been
What we’re reading: £500million UK aid spent on private sector contracts; Andrew Mitchell throws class-based wobbly; development jargon sucks; how much water do we eat; why study development?
Many of the larger chunks of UK aid spending are channelled through big multilateral organisations and British firms. Last year alone, £500m was spent by
What’s in a …Blog?
As someone who remembers what it means to ‘put pen to paper’, being asked to write for a blog at first drew a total blank.
The Story of Change: why citizens (not shoppers) hold the key to a better world
Can shopping save the world? The Story of Change is a new short movie that urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start
When aid is ‘debated’
Image: Plantu (France). See our cartoon library for more Mention ‘Africa’, the ‘Developing World’ or ‘Poverty’ and sure enough, it’s yet another debate on ‘aid’,
Rings (of inequality) around the world
The honour bestowed in carrying the flame, kindled by eleven women using the light of the Sun, its rays concentrated by a parabolic mirror in
How to teach … slavery
Today’s blog was originally posted in the Guardian’s Education section, in their series ‘How to Teach…’ – which covers everything from teaching about tax, tennis and
The True Size of Africa
Are you prone to ‘immappancy? Do you get easily confused by the actual size of countries and how they relate to each other by how
The Games have begun, an opportunity missed
It was an amazing opening ceremony. Danny Boyle and his team had the opportunity at the outset, to challenge some of the more dominant, ugly
School Immersion: Vacation or Education?
“I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.” – Confucius, Chinese philosopher and political theorist, 551-479 BC Immersion programmes are growing