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2017 Team Blogs
Recent Team Blogposts
Each SAWIP team member writes their own personal blog to capture their experience. Read the most recent team blog entries below, or browse by team member by selecting their name from the menu. And please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments!
Reflection on African leadership,the past,present and the future
Leadership is the engine that moves every country or groups of people forward in different spaces of life. Leadership in itself can be defined in different ways by different people. I interpret leadership as the ability to identify the ideal situation for your...
Read moreOn African Leadership: Past, Present and Future
“A chief is a chief by the grace of his people” - Chief Mohlomi The story of post-colonial African political leadership, while varied and complicated, has been, in so many ways, tragic. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana, led the first state in Africa...
Read moreHuman Rights Start Close To Home
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. … Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action...
Read moreHuman trafficking
When we were tasked during Human Rights Learning Training Program from the American Friends Service Committee to identify a problem in our communities that relates to or violates human rights, I instantly knew what I wanted to share about my home town, Kempton Park in...
Read moreA Letter to My Nephew
Two weeks ago, we visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the experience was an exceptionally profound, yet haunting one. At the museum, I bought James Baldwin’s book, The Fire Next Time, and he opens it with a letter to his...
Read moreWaves of Change
60% of Africa’s population is under 35 years of age, but in our political office, there has been no space for the youth to make a political footprint. In an article by David E Kiwuwa he says, “[Africa’s] five longest presidencies stretch between 29 and 36 years,...
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