I am pleased to announce that I have joined a group of international donors, who are participating in a $350m Scholarship program, called the Schwarzman Scholars, started by the founder of Blackstone, Mr Stephen Schwarzman. Blackstone is one of the biggest financial organisations in the world. The program aims to send up to 200 students ...
When I was seventeen years old I was traveling between the Zambian city of Lusaka and Kitwe on the Copperbelt, by bus. As we travelled out of the city it became very clear that the country was on high alert as there were military checkpoints everywhere. About 100km into our journey and after numerous checkpoints ...
There are well-documented problems about access to education. The Africa Learning Barometer at the US-based Center for Universal Education at Brookings says of the continent's nearly 128 million school-aged children, 17 million will never attend school.