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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...

Responses to the Challenges in Diagnosing Rare Diseases in Kenya

In this piece, we will look at the efforts being made to address some of the issues highlighted in our first blog, such as lack...

How one Engineer is Challenging the Lack of Representation in her Industry

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,...

Insights from a Postdoctoral Scientist and Rare Disease Advocate, Dr. Mendi J. Muthinja

Dr. Mendi is a scientist whose background is in molecular parasitology, genetics and biophysics. Her Alma mater is Heidelberg University, in Germany, where she pursued...

The Challenge in Diagnosing Rare Diseases in Kenya

On 28th February 2020, Rare Disorders Kenya, a community of people, and their support networks, with rare diseases in Kenya, invited the public to join...

How one Migration Expert is “Becoming a Better Researcher”; Q & A with Jacqueline Owigo

Jacqueline’s experience is backed by findings that show a shortage of professional development opportunities for African researchers. In a 2018 study on young scientists in...

Q & A with Dr. Angeline Wairegi, an E-Learning Specialist, on the Mawazo Learning Exchange

Dr. Wairegi is a Physical Chemist, proficient in developing, executing, and evaluating educational programmes. In our conversation, she emphasized the importance of African researchers having...

We Need to Talk About Mental Health in Academia

While attending the March 2018 DAAD Higher Education conference, we heard Gladys Mosomtai, a L’oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa Fellow, speak about her...

Teaching Researchers How to Communicate their Work with Non-Experts

One of our partners in this work is The Conversation Africa, a platform providing an independent source of news and views from the academic and...