Festus Kiplagat is a charismatic leader, advocate, agriforestry expert, and founder, but, he’s something more: He’s a grower from Kenya and very proud to be one. He wants youth around Africa to feel the same passion he has for the soil and to develop and nurture it in order to save the continent and the entire planet. If you talk …
Fill Your Mind With Namara: Feminist Spotlight on Nankondo Mnyone and Khadija Msumi
It’s women’s history month and we are celebrating the achievements females have made This month we are making the world focus on us (women and girls) as we are breaking the barriers caused by gender stereotypes and “choosing to challenge” as this year’s theme states. Nankondo Mnyone and Khadija Msumi are perfect examples of girls who are “choosing to challenge” …
Fill Your Mind with Namara: Meet Nancy Lazaro, UNSDG Advocate and Writer From Tanzania
“Passions,” a word I would relate to extreme contentment in one’s tasks, is a direction towards your God-given purpose on this earth. Negativity blocks the work that the passion would’ve done. So many of us have passions within us that the world shuns out and calls useless. Making your passion a reality creates a life that is characterized by joy. …
Fill Your Mind with Namara: What’s So Good About That?
Namara Lwansa is a young student from Tanzania whose speaking and writing talents have already started carving a leadership path for her in areas of Africa. The youngest Frontrunners League member is now the first African blogger in the new section of this magazine dedicated to African Influencers and Innovators. Fill Your Mind is Namara’s contribution in blog form, often accompanied by video interviews …
Feature: Saray Khumalo Climbs Peaks to Raise Education in South Africa
Saray Khumalo is a remarkable young woman mountaineer and adventurer who is on a mission to climb the world’s highest peaks in order to raise funds to build libraries and offer educational opportunities to areas of South African in need. She’s accomplishing that mission quite well, as the first black African woman to summit Mount Everest. That’s not the only …
Fill Your Mind With Namara: Human Trafficking Interview with Survivor Francisca Mbuli
Modern slavery: it exists, and that isn’t the only problem, a lot of us don’t know it…and that’s why I’m here. We will learn about it together. Now, many of us would be surprised by the fact that slavery still exists, especially after having an entire topic in our history classes dedicated to how it was abolished. But unfortunately, it …
After 2020 – A Poem By a Young African Influencer and Empowerment Advocate
Namara Lwansa is the youngest member of The Frontrunners League (global group of influencers, innovators, and advocates). An up-and-coming leader in Tanzania, Namara works hard at her studies and studies hard at what is becoming her “work.” Better said…her “impact.” Namara is the first young blogger to have her own spot here within Frontrunners Innovate. We hope you will encourage …
Dr. David Ajibade Uses Nutraceuticals to Effectively Treat Sickle Cell Anemia in Nigerian Youth
While in the United States sourcing funds for his government-approved study, Dr. David Ajibade, Executive Director of the Brain and Body Foundation of Nigeria, sat down for a conversation with Frontrunners Innovate Publisher, Mary Kurek, to talk about the study and how his work with nutraceuticals is impacting youth with sickle cell anemia. The study is an important first step …