Did you know that by the end of 2020, sub-Saharan region of Africa had up to 495 million mobile service subscribers? That’s 46% of the region’s population, and is an increase of almost 20 million from 2019. And children under the age of 15, who account for 40% of the region’s population, are using mobile technology to connect with others and have conversations in real-time. So how does this connect to our work? Well, we’re going mobile. ONE in Africa has...
Aya Chebbi is an activist and AU Youth Envoy. We interviewed her as part of our #PassTheMic campaign. Here’s some of what she had to say. The COVID-19 pandemic is taking over the world, causing a worldwide impact on education. School and university closures are disrupting the education of over 1.53 billion learners, 743 million of whom are girls. School and university students around the world have had to adapt to e-learning. Lockdowns, quarantines, curfews, isolation, and social distancing that you...
Nigeria’s tech sector accounts for almost 10% of the nation’s GDP today. That’s up from less than 1% of GDP in 2001. Nigeria is Africa’s biggest technology market and accounts for 24% of internet users in Africa, with 123 million people online in June 2019. Nigeria’s tech sector has often found creative solutions to fill gaps left by the state. For example, large firms are delivering services in healthcare, agriculture and finance. Smaller firms are providing e-commerce platforms and other...
Growing up with her grandparents on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, Lisa Michael Jones has witnessed the hardships of Tanzanian farmers. She remembers the time in 2016 when her grandfather invested in a large portion of land to start production of watermelons, just to see the harvest fail and return home empty-handed. “After that loss, I haven’t seen my grandpa cultivate a large piece of land again. Now he just farms at a small plot close to our house,”...
African Women have been instrumental in shaping African society and are a vital force for development - as leaders, mothers, entrepreneurs, consumers, employers and employees. This year ONE joins the New African Woman Forum (NAWF) bringing together female leaders from business, academia and civil society, as well as key decision-makers from the public and private sectors. The aim is to find innovative solutions and strategies to enable a sustainable transformative growth in Africa. The Forum invited our amazing ONE Champions from...