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Britt Drögemöller and Galen Wright at the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience in South Africa in 2019. (Photo: David Twesigomwe)
Two new Canada Research Chairs awarded prestigious Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowships
March 16, 2021
UM Canada Research Chairs Dr. Galen Wright and Dr. Britt Drögemöller, faculty members in the Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, were recently awarded a pair of one-year fellowships that will allow them to collaborate on neurogenomics and precision medicine with Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship program, founded in 2013, is designed to develop long-term collaborations between universities in Africa and North America. The project is one of 56 through which the program will pair African-born scholars in North America with institution in Africa to collaborate on research, graduate training and mentoring activities in the coming months.
Career Path With National Oil General Manager Alex Magu
Alex Magu is the General Manager, Finance, Trade, and Treasury at National Oil Corporation of Kenya.
With over 20 years of experience in Financial and Treasury management, Mr Magu has held various senior positions in the financial sector including Chief Transformation Officer at Family Bank, Founder – Credit Sawa Limited, and the Head of Finance at Kenya Orient Insurance Limited.
The 45-year-old shared his career-path with
Sunday Nation.
“I am the eldest of three children and I took after my dad who was a Chief Accountant for over 20 years until his retirement. My mum was a Theatre Nurse. We were raised in a peri-rural setting though I went to a day school in Nairobi, a 30 minutes’ drive from where we lived.
For about four decades, one individual who has remained committed to keeping this conversation alive, notwithstanding the enormity of the task, broadening its scope to cater to the complication, is Toyin Falola. He has entered a golden era where no other African scholar can compete with him or match his talents, productivity, and profundity.
February 2021 will forever be remembered in the annals of African history as the month that Africa awarded its first academic D. Litt., presented by the University of Ibadan, Nigeria’s premier university, to the most deserving African scholar of our era, the pre-eminent and peerless scholar, Professor Toyin Falola, rated as the Number One Humanities scholar in Africa, with the most global presence in both the academic and policy world. No sooner was it announced than the news immediately spread to the corridors in the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), and UNESCO. It was
February 25, 2021
Ball State University’s Dr. Winnie Mucherah has once again earned a fellowship through the Institute of International Education (IIE) and its Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program.
Mucherah, a professor of Developmental Psychology for Ball State’s Teachers College, was also selected as a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow in 2015 and 2018. She is planning on traveling to Kenya from May 20 to August 10 to work alongside Daystar University’s Dr. Leah Komen. Mucherah’s travels will be dependent on the conditions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
While in Kenya, Mucherah will partner with Komen to host workshops to strengthen the capacity-responsive research skills of junior faculty members and students through active joint research opportunities. They’ll also mentor graduate students in writing and successfully completing theses and dissertations and preparing quality papers and proposals for conferences and publication in peer-reviewed journals.
FARMKENYA INITIATIVE
Benedetta Nangila has diversified into rabbits to sustain her fodder business during covid.
Throughout 2020 and the myriad challenges brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, supporting and working with young agribusiness entrepreneurs has been particularly pertinent.
To this end, the United States International University-Africa (USIU-A), through support provided by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research through their Cultivate Africa’s Future initiative, provides young agripreneurs, aged 18 to 35, with access to business training, finance and mentorship.
The programme, implemented by the USIU-A’s Global Agribusiness Management and Entrepreneurship (GAME) Centre, aims to enable youth develop and maintain resilient, job-creating enterprises.