After Rufaro’s conversation with Tari, he is awarded the Joshua Nkomo scholarship and becomes a Higherlife foundation Joshualite. On completing his O-levels he applies to attend the Yale Young African Scholar’s programme and to his excitement, he gets accepted. Rufaro writes to his mother while away attending the YYAS program: Dear Mama, How are you? ...
In late May, Tariro walks home from a typical day in Form Two at Domboramwari High School and meets a boy who lives on the same road, named Rufaro. Rufaro, aged fifteen, attends ZRP High School and is preparing to write his O-levels. They strike up an interesting conversation on education. Tari: “So, Rufaro, what ...
Today we fast forward into Tariro’s future. She still stays with Babamukuru Sedekene, and his three daughters. She is now thirteen years old and is in her second term of form one at Domboramwari high school. Tari has been on the Capernaum Scholarship for six years now and has received some of the services Higherlife ...
Our story begins in the high-density area of Epworth, which is on the outskirts of Zimbabwe’s capital city, Harare. This is where we find streets bustling with market traders and vendors selling produce and parts, commuter omnibuses whizzing to and from the neighbourhood and the city centre. Amidst the fast-paced haste, we find a young ...
The past few years have seen a rise in the number of women-owned businesses in Africa. Be it in IT, oil, mining, or in the aviation sector, female entrepreneurs are breaking gender stereotypes and showing that what a man can do, a woman can also do, if not better. Bold and fearlessly ambitious, these are ...
Women are no strangers to the stereotypes that surround their often more detailed approach to getting tasks done. Too pedantic. Too fussy. We’ve heard them all. YOUNG WOMEN IN TECH Across industries companies are starting to wake up to the unique value which women bring to the workplace. ICT, in particular, is an industry ...
One of the keywords in Africa today is leapfrogging – that phenomenon that allows those to were behind to step ahead of those who were previously at the fore. Mobile phone networks are a classic example: most African countries have, by and large, skipped the wired era and embraced wireless. As a result, mobile phones ...
