Esethu Cenga, a 27-year old native of South Africa, has won 1.19 million rands for Rewoven, the textile recycling startup she co-founded in 2018 with Lonwabo Mgoduso and Tshepo Bhengu. The South African development economics graduate and Mandela Rhodes Scholar is the first-ever recipient of the Äänit Prize, The Mandela
Water is an essential part of human life. Just like air, humans need water to survive. However, water scarcity affects many societies. In Sub-Saharan Africa alone, more than 300 of the 800 million people in the continent live in water-scarce regions. While many people in these areas travel great distances
While scrolling through my social media, a peculiar hashtag- #SootInPortHarcourt- caught my interest. I was intrigued mainly because of two things. Firstly, I know soot to be a deep black powdery or flaky substance made up of amorphous carbon, produced by the incomplete burning of organic matter. In other words,
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