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Work for ALI Media Fellowship
28 January 2016
Job Advertisement: Closing Date: 5 February 2016 (17:00 South African time) Position: Programme Assistant, ALI Media Fellowship Programme Location: Johannesburg, South Africa with occasional travel to Kenya and Nigeria Reporti...
Farewell Mma-tshepo!
27 January 2016
It is with a very deep heart that I write to say that Mma-tshepo will be leaving us at the end of February. Mma-tshepo or Adetutu, as the Nigerian representatives in Class 1 call her, has been the calm, consistent, confident and c...
New photos added to our gallery: ALI Class 2, Seminar 1, Stellenbosch, South Africa 2015
15 January 2016
Our gallery has been updated with new and exciting photos from our time in Stellenbosch, South Africa 2015. A Brief Summary of Field Trips The Segway Tour was an exciting method of exploring the Spier farm. The tour took Fellows ...
Has the Shilling finally outsmarted the Rand?
13 January 2016
Original article by ROTTOK CHESAINA for Business Daily Monday, January 4. Kenyans living in South Africa all face one major frustration: the rand/shilling exchange rate – it is simply unpredictable. In the last 10 years R1 has b...
The ALI Media Fellowship programme is a true eye-opener
30 November 2015
ALI Media Fellowship: A flight to a new life experience By Akeem Mustapha, political scientist and Advert Manager at the Nigerian Daily Trust in Abuja. Original article published in the Sunday Trust on 22 November 2015 Earlier th...
Who is to fund refugee aid in Europe?
13 November 2015
Where will the funds come from to aid the sudden wave of refugees hitting Europe? Teldah Mawarire’s airs her opinion on diverting civil society funding of international development towards migrant aid. A tsunami of refugees has ...
New photos added to our gallery: ALI Seminar 2, Naivasha, Kenya 2015
6 November 2015
Our gallery has been updated with new and exciting photos from our time in Naivasha, Kenya 2015. A Brief Summary of Field Trips KEROCHE BREWERIES It started as a small family business in 1997 to fill a gap in the liquor marke...
Ory Okolloh explains why Africa can’t entrepreneur itself out of its basic problems.
23 October 2015
One of Kenya’s best known tech investors Ory Okolloh has thrown cold water on the push for entrepreneurship and innovation on the continent. “You can’t entrepreneur around bad leadership, we can’t entrepreneur around bad p...