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 …
Jolyne Jelimo on Developing Youth Leaders in Education Cohorts Around the Globe
Jolyne Jelimo is the country head and Vice President of Global Goodwill Ambassadors (GGA) for Kenya. Her rise to this leadership position shows you exactly where her values lie as a rising influencer in her country, especially when it comes to impacting education, economic development, and youth mindset. The latter is more important than you may think, especially, within the …
Dr. Osita Aniemeka, Champion for Entrepreneurship in Africa
“African Education System has surprising outcomes. The smartest students pass with 1st Class and get admission to medical & engineering schools. The 2nd Class Students get MBAs and LLBs to manage the First Class Students. The 3rd Class Students enter politics, and rule both 1st and 2nd Class Students. The failures join the Army and control politicians who, if they …
Professor Princess, Rosemary Ogochukwu Igbo, PhD: National Academy of Education Nigeria
“To produce a great teacher that inspires, that stands tall and above the superior and the good teacher, first we create an effective classroom manager who makes students know what they are doing, while showing them why and how.” “As a practitioner who has committed the most to education in Africa, I want to see education achieve the best outcomes …
Lilian A. Onyegbulam: Agricultural Economist Nigeria
The challenge in Africa is that agriculture is seen by most government and development agencies as a social activity and not as an enterprise. The continent’s potential is enormous! There’s a large expanse of cultivable land, tropical weather for all-season production, a diversity of food, and cash crops sought after by many nations in the West. There are soil types …
Sonia Sachs is Creating an Intervention for Africa’s Community Health Workers
Sonia Sachs has been frustrated over several years of working in pediatrics and endocrinology as a public health specialist in Africa. But, she has been frustrated right into a solution. Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH is a pediatrician, an endocrinologist and public health specialist. She received a BA from Harvard University, an MD from the University of Maryland Medical School, …