• Uganda: Farmer Profits By Branching Out Into Selling Sweet Potato Vines

    Perpetua Okao pulls a ringing mobile phone out of her pocket. She responds to the caller, “Yes, I may still have some vines. How many do you need?” Mrs. Okao tucks the phone back into her pocket. She explains: “I’m the chairperson of Atego Farmers Women’s Group. We’re not only women farmers. We also have…


  • Tanzania: Radio’s young, aspiring reporters

    Daudi Frank enters Radio 5’s Arusha studios wearing a baggy turtleneck sweater. His trousers are stained with dirt, his plastic sandals caked with mud. The sixteen-year-old squeezes in his thin frame beside other young people from the youth outreach group Mkombozi [Saviour]. Linus Kilembu is the host of the radio program Mlango wa watoto [Children’s…


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