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Mawazo Breaks Own Graduation Records in 2025!!!!

In 2025, the Mawazo institute grew our network to 152 African women researchers as we welcomed 60 new Fellows and broke our own record for...

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A Snapshot of Women Leading Change in Science & Society 

On Thursday 13th November, the Mawazo Institute joined the Schlumberger Foundation in launching their latest Faculty for the Future Impact Survey and co-hosting a breakfast...

Meet the STEM Motivator: Championing Girls for Greatness!

I went to a remote high school in Makueni County, which had a single computer lab with six computers. Many girls in the school stayed...

One GBV case is one too many: Women and Girls Should feel Safe and Protected

About 480 km from Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, is the Dadaab Refugee Complex. A young researcher, Mawazo Alumna Judy Ngina, is giving hope to victims...

After Six Years in the Nest, Mawazo Takes Flight

Rose spoke about her passion for using academic research to inform government policy in her job at the DOE, but also wondered if she could...

How do we make agriculture attractive for young people?

For these reasons, “the agricultural value-chain seems like a good place to be for a young entrepreneur,” but this is often not the reality. Many...

Curiosity Driven Science – Africa’s Space Scientists Look to the Stars

More than 20 years later, in 1999, South Africa launched Africa’s first satellite, SunSat. Constructed by students at Stellenbosch University, over ten years, the construction...

A Look at Kenya’s Law Eliminating Harmful Practices in Marketing of Baby Bottles and Formula

This act’s primary goal, despite initial fears stoked by inaccurate media reporting in Kenya, is to protect parents and caregivers against aggressive advertising on breast-feeding...

Meet the New CEO of Mawazo Institute

This announcement comes just after celebrating five years since the Mawazo Institute was founded, and just under a year since Mawazo embarked on a transitional...

The ‘African Futures’ Campaign – African Ideas Building Africa’s Future

Despite the constraints African researchers face in terms of a shortage of adequate mentorship, training, and research funding (Beaudry et al., 2018) as well as...