Scholars of history are a haunted bunch. They have spent years studying stuff from the past and have learned a few tough lessons from it. This is the case because history truly has a tendency to repeat itself. As the old Biblical saying goes: ‘There is nothing new under the sun’ Essentially historians exist in …
The income challenges faced by Local NGOs
By Sangwani Joseph Nkhwazi Last December, I had an interesting conversation with the director of a Non-governmental Organistion (NGO) in Malawi. It was before Christmas and as is usually the case with such a time of the year, most companies were preparing for the festive season, with Christmas parties aplenty and talk of presents for …
Pitch
Oshede is an online empowerment & support initiative to help people in developing regions with assistance towards paying for post-secondary education or towards developing a sustainable income via micro-enterprises. We do this by giving them a platform on which to crowdsource solutions for their challenges/ projects, be it via goodwill monetary contributions from members of …
Why Mentorship?
Sometimes funding interventions do not achieve all their outcomes because the funding is not enough. At other times it is because the funding is not utilised properly, or it has strings attached. Further still, at other times (and in the context of investment into a micro-enterprise), the failure can be down to a lack of …
Introducing Oshede
shede is a Yoruba word meaning escape. We only discovered this years after we had already coined the term. Interestingly “o shede” with a space between the o and the s means “he says” in Yoruba. Another accidental discovery… Also, Google Translate seems to think Oshede is a Danish word … although we’re not entirely …
