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“A girl without education is nothing in the world”
By the time she was 13 years old, Vumilia had supported herself through primary school by collecting and selling firewood. Now she faced an even greater challenge. After weeks of anxiety, Vumilia left...
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'The Iron Lady' and the paradox of treating anaemia
There’s a strange paradox when it comes to iron deficiency anaemia. We’ve been able to treat the condition for almost two centuries, ever since French physician Blaud of Beaucaire introduced ‘A Readily...
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Cambridge-Africa Programme: 58 institutions, 26 countries, and growing
Having the chance to contribute to the pool of human knowledge depends a great deal on where you live in the world. Opportunities are skewed in favour of those who are better resourced and in favour of...
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Keeping the lights on in Ghana
In Ghana, ‘Dumsor’ is a part of life. An annoyance, a risk, an impediment to be sure, but a part of life all the same.The half-joking, half-serious term, which roughly translates to ‘off-and-on’,...
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The Bible as a weapon of war
In 2012, one of the world’s most wanted war criminals, Joseph Kony, became one of the most repeated names on the planet thanks to a YouTube documentary (Kony 2012) and a call to action that sought to...
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A sewage system that ‘digests’ and ‘cooks’ human waste
We are surrounded by friendly and welcoming people, but the language barrier makes communication monumentally challenging. We feel far from the immaculate lawns and gleaming stone of King’s Parade on a...
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Of cabbages and cows: increasing agricultural yields in Africa
The humble cabbage, universally despised by British schoolchildren, has found unexpected popularity on another continent. But just as the people of Ghana have developed an appetite – and a market – for...
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When ideas of peace meet politics of conflict
Burundi has experienced cycles of violence, civil war and even genocide since achieving independence from Belgium in 1962. So, when this small central African country finally held democratic multiparty...
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Graduate, get a job … make a difference #6
Kathryn Savage (Trinity College), BA Modern & Medieval Languages (2016) I graduated last year and now work in Uganda with Pepal Foundation, a small UK-based NGO partnered with a large Ugandan NGO,...
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Under pressure: the battle to have a baby in Africa
As a young doctor in Uganda a few years ago, Dr Annettee Nakimuli was told that nothing could be done about a complication of pregnancy that was putting thousands of pregnant women a year at risk of...
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Sharpening our knowledge of prehistory on East Africa’s bone harpoons
East Africa is the epicentre of human evolution and its archaeological remains offer the potential to fill gaps in our understanding of early modern humans from their earliest origins, around 200,000...
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Multiplier effect: the African PhD students who will grow African research
“Africa needs a million new PhD researchers over the next decade.” It’s a huge figure. Professor David Dunne uses it to explain the scale of need in Africa for a new generation of scholars who will...
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Carol Ibe: Making training for African researchers affordable
Carol Ibe, a Gates Cambridge Scholar who was born in the USA but grew up in Nigeria, is not only doing a PhD in Plant Sciences, but is also running her own non-profit organisation to help train future...
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Opinion: How years of IMF prescriptions have hurt West African health systems
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) provides financial assistance to countries in economic trouble. But its policy proposals don’t always yield positive results for the countries it purports to...
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The Monuments Men of Libya
True heroes, generous hearts: these are the Libyan archaeologists who, with Daesh at their heels, have accomplished the feat of completing the excavation of the Haua Fteah cave in Cyrenaica, one of the...
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Celebrating Black Cantabs
Gloria Claire Carpenter was probably the first black woman at the University of Cambridge. A Jamaican, she studied law at Girton College in 1945 and became a prominent social reformer, playing an...
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Meeting local needs: how the Fens can learn from research in Africa
When Dr Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi first arrived in Africa in 2003, the situation regarding HIV – her specialism – was “just awful”, she says. We’re all familiar with the devastating images of emaciated...
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Museum archive reconnects a London-based Congolese community with its heritage
The community is a London-based group called the Congo Great Lakes Initiative (CGLI). Its members aim to help people with Congolese and African heritage, some of whom are victims of post-conflict...
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Opinion: The ICC can’t live with Africa, but it can’t live without it either
On the first of February, 2017, the African Union issued a resolution encouraging member states to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Whatever comes of it, the reported plan is the...
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Opinion: Aid workers get a bad rap – but too often they’re thrown in at the...
Acute famine in the Horn of Africa, an impending food crisis in Yemen and ongoing civil war in Syria are among the main causes of today’s global refugee crisis. Currently there are more than 65.3m...
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