Agricultural experts in vouch for improved seed varieties to raise millet yields in western Kenya
Millet farmers led by Marygoret Omodia expressed joy how their yields have improved after using the improved variety and using the correct ways of planting.
Becoming a Maasai warrior: How modernity is reshaping cultural resilience training for world-famous Kenyan, Tanzanian nomadic tribe
Traditionally, transitioning from child to warrior as a Maasai involved taking part in a one-year warrior camp. Maasai youths would be secluded and learn survival skills, bushcraft – and, if the opportunity arises, how to kill a lion. All that has changed. Although “Enkipaata” – the official rite of passage that includes warrior training – s has been declared a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, it has been modernised.
Pope Francis death rekindles memories of mediaeval pope Benedict IX, who was a thief, overthrew three other popes
Benedict IX took office in 1032, while practically a teenager. “At that time, the papacy was the legal centre of the Western world,” Weiss recalls on camera.
Nearly 250,000 mourners at People’s Pope’ funeral mass as world bids Pope Francis farewell
Applause rang out as Francis’ coffin, inlaid with a large cross, was brought out of the basilica and into the sun-filled square by 14 white-gloved pallbearers at the start of the Mass. The Vatican estimated more than 250,000 people attended the ceremony, cramming the square and the roads around.
New knowledge cultures in Africa: Centrality of criticality in academic, intellectual, educational, ideological, AI and public discourses.
God is the source of all knowledge, wisdom, understanding and insight. He desires that leaders (religious and non-religious) and rulers lead and govern his people with love, justice, mercy, wisdom, understanding and insight towards change for the better.
Study in Sweden reveals sexual harassment is still a taboo subject even in gender-equality hotspots
The Lund findings echo those of a 2022 study2 of gender-based violence and sexual harassment in European research settings, which found that the prevalence of gender-based violence was fairly uniform across 15 nations.
Top scientists flee US following Trump’s research funding cuts; the academics prefer to work in Europe, Asia – even Africa!
More than 200 federal grants for research related to HIV and AIDS were abruptly terminated last month. Cuts to grants from the US National Institutes of Health for Covid-19 research were revealed, and the government began a $400-million reduction in research grants at Columbia University in New York City, because of campus protests supporting Palestinians in the conflict with Israel.
Doomsday beckons: Fears religious cultism making strong rebound in Kenya as extreme poverty pushes people into the abyss
The Shakahola Forest incident involved a religious cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, founder of Good News International Ministries, an apocalyptic Christian group. It came to light in March 2023 after a man raised the alarm after his wife and daughter, who had travelled from the capital Nairobi to join Paul Nthenge Mackenzie’s remote Good News International Ministries in Kilifi County vanished.
WHO recommends social and psychological support for school girls to address adolescent pregnancy
Reasons for early pregnancy vary, but are interrelated including gender inequities, poverty, lack of opportunity and inability to access sexual and reproductive health services, with also a strong correlation with child marriage; and in low- and middle-income countries.
Poor Pope and People’s Pope: While John Paul I was a paragon of tenacity and courage, Pope Francis was citadel of theological learning
Pop John Paul I: We have no temporal goods to exchange, no economic interests to discuss. Our possibilities for intervention are specific and limited and of a special character. They do not interfere with the purely temporal, technical and political affairs, which are matters of your government.
