Africa Student View
ZIMBABWE
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Kudzai Mashininga
A range of factors influences African students to study abroad. However, the question of whether to return to their home countries after completing their studies, in most cases, still remains to be answered. Some reasons are purely academic, others economic, and others political.
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TUNISIA
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Elizia Volkmann
Students from Sub-Saharan African countries say that they are being discriminated against in Tunisia’s banks and post offices, preventing them from receiving international money transfers to pay for essentials. This comes in the aftermath of President Kais Saied’s call in February for “urgent measures” to counter “hordes” of Sub-Saharan migrants.
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SOUTH AFRICA
Kudzai Mashininga
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SOUTH AFRICA
Kudzai Mashininga
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NIGERIA
Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman Akanbi
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SOUTH AFRICA
Matthew Hattingh
Student leaders are being recruited to roll out an online entrepreneurship training programme to their fellows. The programme, which uses the Telegram instant messaging app to deliver coursework, has already been piloted among a limited number of students at universities of technology in South Africa.
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CAMEROON
Paul Njie
The government of Cameroon has introduced a student entrepreneur programme to promote entrepreneurship in its higher education system, including public and private higher institutions. The project aims, among other things, to strengthen the practical training of students to function in a business environment.
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ALGERIA
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Azzeddine Bensouiah
Algerian students from the Université Djillali Liabes have successfully invented a revolutionary process in the exploitation of renewable energy at a time when solar power has become one of the much-needed alternatives to fossil fuel-generated electric energy. The technology they developed focuses on the maintenance of solar panels.
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KENYA
Scovian Lillian
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SOUTH AFRICA
Stacey Francis and Brian Khoza
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SOUTH AFRICA
Scovian Lillian
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ZIMBABWE
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Kudzai Mashininga
Child marriage is one of the most widespread forms of violence against children in Zimbabwe. A total of 5% of girls are married before the age of 15, according to UNICEF. Dr Julieth Gudo, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cape Town, who was pressured into child marriage at the age of 13, fought back.
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RWANDA
Alice Tembasi
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ZIMBABWE
Kudzai Mashininga
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KENYA
Felister Makau
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SOUTH AFRICA
Winnie Chirwa
A 25-year-old student from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa has been channelling her love of science into nearby communities where she is raising awareness about careers for women in science and is providing girls with information about the scope of science qualifications they can pursue.
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AFRICA
Kudzai Mashininga
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, a network of six centres of excellence which are based in South Africa, Senegal, Ghana, Cameroon, Tanzania and Rwanda, has been nurturing innovative, critical thinkers who can drive the continent’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, agenda.
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CAMEROON
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Paul Njie
A young Cameroonian university student has won multiple awards for an app that provides secondary school students with examination resources. Felix Fomengia, a masters student at the University of Buea, a tech entrepreneur and innovator, is now focusing on the tertiary education sector.
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KENYA
Enock Rugut
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ZIMBABWE-ZAMBIA
Prince Gora
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ZAMBIA
Kudzai Mashininga
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ZIMBABWE
Kudzai Mashininga
After noticing several suicides on campus every year and little mental health support from the university authorities, a student at Zimbabwe’s National University of Science and Technology, Lancelot Matange Jnr, decided in 2019 to take action to prevent the unnecessary loss of lives. Now in his final year, Matange is using a YouTube channel to reach his peers.
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RWANDA
Alice Tembasi
A group of final-year students at the University of Rwanda’s College of Education have clashed with the institution’s administrators because they have to repeat their last academic year after missing a crucial deadline. Students have blamed poor communication and connectivity, but administrators say they were negligent.
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GLOBAL
Nathan M Greenfield
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SOUTH AFRICA-GLOBAL
Orla Quinlan
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SOUTH AFRICA
Mhlonipheni Ntshangase with Brian Khoza
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SOUTH AFRICA
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Khanyisile Mahlangu
Breaking generational curses is not easy. It comes with battles no one ever prepares you to fight. That is why graduating was my proudest moment, because everything that had worked against me had failed, writes a student who, earlier, became the first in her family to obtain a university degree.
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AFRICA
Eve Ruwoko
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RWANDA
Alice Tembasi
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AFRICA
Zachariah Mushawatu
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RWANDA
Alice Tembasi
Government-sponsored students in Rwanda have called for an increase in their living allowance following a sharp increase in the market price of almost every commodity that has left many Rwandans struggling. The students who receive support under the Ubudehe programme come from poor families.
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KENYA
Wilson Odhiambo
When the boat that students Joseph Nguthiru and Charles Kinyua were travelling on got stuck in water hyacinth during a field trip on Kenya’s Lake Naivasha in June 2021, little did they know it would set them on the path to becoming global engineering award winners.
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BURUNDI
Prime Mugabonihera
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Sponsored Article
Ferris State University staff
Around the globe, university students with big ideas for making their communities and the world better and helping solve some of today’s biggest problems – pollution, hunger, waste, and more – are applying for Wege Prize, an international design competition with a prize pool of US$65,000.
Promoted by Ferris State University.
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Sponsored Article
Stellenbosch University staff
Stellenbosch University’s vision to be a systemically sustainable institution addressing continental and global sustainable development challenges is beginning to bear fruit. Not only is it educating future leaders, policy-makers and professionals in this space, but it is also finding solutions through research, training and development.
Promoted by Stellenbosch University.
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Sponsored Article
ABET staff
ABET, the global accreditor of science, computing, engineering and technology programmes, is supporting Pride Month and prioritising equality, diversity and inclusion. It believes collaboration between a diverse pool of talent is a vital contributor to finding the best solutions to the world’s problems.
Promoted by ABET.
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Sponsored Article
UAE University staff
As water scarcity reaches critical levels globally, a research team at the United Arab Emirates University seeks to revolutionise seawater desalination practices, offering a path to mitigate water scarcity while championing environmental preservation.
Promoted by the United Arab Emirates University.
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