Africa Growth Initiative

Residents walk along an alleyway with an open sewer at the Mukuru slum in Nairobi, Kenya July 19, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Learning from the people of Nairobi’s Mukuru slum

Angela R. Pashayan and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

A girl holds her chalkboard as she arrives to attend lessons at the evening school in Ouakam neighbourhood, Dakar, Senegal January 16, 2019. Picture taken January 16, 2019. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

How Sierra Leone is getting more girls into STEM

The Hon. Minister David Sengeh and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Faridat Bakare, 12, a student enrolled in a special STEM programme for children from poor families at the Knosk Secondary School, for which she pays 100 naira ($0.25) per day, attends a class in Kuje, Abuja, Nigeria February 18, 2022. Picture taken February 18, 2022. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Risks and opportunities of STEM education in Africa

Ruth Kagia and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Brighton Takawira uses the Mukuru remittance app which enables him to send money and groceries home to family in Zimbabwe from his home in Pinetown, South Africa, October 21, 2020. Picture taken October 21, 2020. REUTERS/Rogan Ward

How remittances and philanthropy meet development challenges in Africa

Una Osili and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Nigeria's President-elect Bola Tinubu sits at the International Centre waiting to receive his certificate of return by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja on March 1, 2023. (Photo by Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Was Nigeria’s presidential election fair?

Kasirim Nwuke and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Shamim Mwanaisha, a travel consultant and trainer, leads students in coding, aviation, space and climate change during a tutorial session at her home in Kitintale suburb of Kampala, Uganda August 28, 2021. Picture taken August 28, 2021. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa

In Uganda, opening political, economic, and social doors for women and girls

Winnie Kiiza and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Europium, internal transition metal forming part of the rare earth group (RHJPhtotos, Shutterstock)

Africa’s global opportunity in rare earth elements

Gracelin Baskaran and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Branded T-shirts, baseball caps and notebooks with images of Nigerian presidential candidates are displayed at a shopping center in Abuja, Nigeria February 2, 2023. REUTERS/Abraham Achirga

A successful election in Nigeria would send a powerful message

Joseph Siegle and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Women protest denouncing the violence that took place against them at an earlier protest against the military, in Omdurman, Sudan December 23, 2021. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig

Sudanese women advancing justice and equality since the 1920s

Rogaia Abusharaf and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture and Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Senegalese President Macky Sall participate in the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Closing Session on Promoting Food Security and Food Systems Resilience at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC on Dec. 15, 2022. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)No Use *** World Rights ***.

Did the US-Africa Leaders Summit meet its objectives?

Aloysius Uche Ordu and David Dollar

Monday, December 19, 2022