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By Walter Marwizi, Bird Story Agency Zimbabwe: When Tavuya Manungo, 29, returned to his home town in Shamva in north-eastern Zimbabwe, he did so with a master's degree in finance and investment, and no desire for corporate employment. He also brought with him his brother Mako, 27, who holds a degree
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By Njdozeka Danhatu, bird story agency Cameroon: As Julius Shegna Tcheshie tells it, the typical experience of a power user in the town of Nwa, where he spent five years as a physics teacher, is one of frustration. "It is 7.30 pm and I'm about to watch the evening news, but I'm
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By Elizabeth Ngigi Juja, Kenya - Bernice Wambui, 11 years old is a chess champion who has represented Kenya in various prestigious chess competitions both locally and internationally. Bernice says her interest in chess started growing when she joined her current School. Her progress shot even higher during the covid-19 Pandemic when
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By Laura Otieno Kisumu, Kenya - When the covid19 pandemic struck, a lot of physical business spaces including markets were shut down as part of efforts to contain the spread of the virus. In Kisumu, Kibuye, arguably the largest open-air market in the Western region serving businesses as far as Uganda
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By Betty Luke Isiolo, Kenya - Ms. Faith Kinanu, the only female taxi driver in Isiolo thrives in a male-dominated sector two years after her fruit vending business collapsed following the hard economic times occasioned by the pandemic. Working in a pastoral county where a majority of the communities are patriarchal, she
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By Laura Otieno Kisumu, Kenya - A rusty workshop standing on a lowly piece of land welcomes you when you visit the Wathorego site in Kisumu, Kenya. Heaps of used synthetic hair paint an aura of destitution and gives the impression of unmanaged waste. However, the heap is a pile of
Read MoreBy Zainab Mohammed Nanyuki - Andrea Heltcher, a hotel owner in Nanyuki has been running a free sanitary pad campaign in her hotel for more than five years as a way of fighting period poverty. According to the Kenya Demographic Health Survey of 2014, roughly 1 million girls in Kenya miss out
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By Laura Otieno, Kisumu - When the day breaks, a queue forms at the homestead of 65-year-old Sylvia Atieno. At the heart of Korowe village in Kisumu, Sylvia has coined a name for herself as the heroine of expectant mothers, by the skill of her hands. “Nyamrerwa”, as she is often
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Hello Africa, Happy New Year from all of us at Mobile Journalism Africa. We are also honored to inform you that Mobile Journalism Africa turns 4 today. We are grateful for all the support, and the belief that you have had for and in us respectively. For everyone who has let us into
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