Long overdue, I have figured out the mechanics of #substack, where I intend to share long sentences on Africa-facing development and investment initiatives, and ideas on what we need to question and design (including new institutional forms!) in order to change the status quo. My first post is on the delight of returning to University […]
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8B Education Investments, in partnership with UNCF’s Institute for Capacity Building (ICB), invites you to an important webinar exploring how Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) can design and scale pathways that support African student success, from recruitment and admission to funding and graduation. 🗓 Friday, October 17 | 10:00 AM ESTTopic: Partnerships to Support
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Excited to be speaking today at the Africa Universities’ Day Celebration 2025, hosted by the Association of African Universities (AAU). With over 450 members, AAU has represented the collective voice of African universities for 58 years, working to align African higher education with the aspirations of Africa’s youth. 🟡Together with colleagues at the UNCF Institute
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What an honor to emcee the first African Digital Futures Summit 2025 on the margins of hashtag#UNGA80 in New York! Organized by ServiceNow , Africa House (where I am a Senior Advisor), and the G20 South African Presidency, the summit brought together policymakers, founders, investors, and creatives to discuss Africa’s digital destiny. It was truly
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On Thursday, 25 September, I was delighted to be invited to moderate “Kenya – The Next Frontier of Exceptional Return” at the Bullish Kenya 2025 event in New York, at the margins of hashtag#UNGA80. There is something really exciting about being a hashtag#Kenyan (and hashtag#African) at this time in history, where change is everywhere, and
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I am delighted to be joining the Africa House as a Senior Advisor, including leading the charge on how African youth can be transformed into the global STEM and innovation workforce of the 21st century. It is estimated that by 2030 there will be more young people under the age of 35 on the African
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I was invited by The Economist to speak on a panel at the Inaugural Sustainability Week Africa event, on a panel on “equipping young Africans to prioritise sustainability.”My point: The Green Industrial Revolution needs human capital. Millions of jobs will be produced by this revolution, and young Africa will also need to be at the
Echoing Green is one of the world’s most prestigious social impact fellowships. The fellowship brings together an amazing global community of founders working on the widest range of urgent social, environmental, political, and economic challenges facing communities around the world. Its fellowship ranks include the late Paul Farmer of Partners in Health, Van Jones, and
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Below are a few excerpts from my NewsOne oped on my reflections on one of the panels of the 2024 meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. “Damon, who co-founded Water.org with engineer Gary White in 2007, initially thought they would focus on drilling wells. But nearly two decades later, the nonprofit is leveraging donor dollars
At the 2024 Annual meeting, I was invited to speak on a panel titled, “Investing in Africa’s Next Generation.”What I focused on, in summary: We have pioneered a scalable financial instrument that democratizes access to global education and upskilling by African students and learners. Given global demographic dynamics, this work of accelerating brain circulation from
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