We interview Judy Ngina, a Kenyan junior researcher who is enthusiastic about exploring topics at the nexus between gender and development. Her research, at the University of Nairobi, explores how existing gender dynamics in agriculture affect the uptake of new technologies and methodologies. Judy is also a Child Protection Officer at Dadaab Refugee Camp.

It is with great excitement that I announce my new role as the Acting CEO at Mawazo Institute. This announcement comes as we mark five years since Mawazo Institute was founded. I am stepping into the position previously held by…

In February, we formally launched the 2021/22 MLEx Fellowship Programme whose cohort is made up of 42 inspiring MLEx Fellows that represent 8 different countries and are some of the best and brightest young African women at the forefront of exciting and innovative research projects in East Africa. Meet Rogia Gomez and Njeri Njau in this blog.

In this third installment of our series on rare diseases, we look at the efforts being made to address some of the issues highlighted in our first blog, such as lack of a local registry, lack of scientific and medical knowledge by local practitioners, and scarce treatment options. We also explore possible solutions to these challenges.

Martha, the Founder of Queengineers, an online publication that celebrates Kenyan women in engineering, tends to face obstacles head-on. From when she was quite young, Martha always wanted to know why things worked the way they did. In school, she gravitated towards physics and saw the example of her father’s own career as an engineer as inspiration for how she could marry all her favourite subjects together when it came time to forge her own path.