Why Tom Hanks Day Co-founder Continues His Support
Children living in Kakuma Refugee Camp fascinated with Kevin’s tattoos Guest post by Kevin Turk I never imagined a point in my life where I would have the ability to travel across the...
Farm Radio International Guest Blog: Farmers and Lifeplayer MP3s
By Steph Stroud, Farm Radio International At Farm Radio International, we understand the power of radio. We use radio broadcasts to inform, discuss, exchange ideas, investigate and learn. Radio is...
Why I Keep Giving to Lifeline Energy
Guest post by Kevin Turk If you told me on April Fool’s Day 2004 that a simple joke would result in me traveling to Zambia in Southern Africa, I would have said, “The joke’s on you pal”. But...
Voice of an Expert: Prime Radios and Sustainable Farming
by Filius Chalo Jere During the rainy season, most parts of the Luangwa Valley in eastern Zambia cannot be reached by government extension worker Luke Lungu. There are too many streams between the...
Why I Give to Lifeline Energy #WRD
by Linda Stevens When my mother died in 2006, she left me some money ̶ not a life-changing amount, but enough to think about. If you have enough money to stay afloat, I find the most fun you can...
Haile’s Story: What the Learn English Radio Project Means to Teachers?
By Tsion Issaya, Communications Manager, British Council Ethiopia. Meet 60 year old Haile Berhe. For more than half his life, he has worked as an English teacher. Born and raised in a small town in...
Why Kenya’s School Laptops Programme is Not the Answer
This blog originally appeared in ONE. The Kenyan government is delivering on an election promise and has awarded a supply contract for 1.2 million laptops to be given to first year primary school...
The Difference a Little Bit of Energy Makes
By Kathleen Buchholz in Lusaka “I don’t buy candles anymore; I use the light to study more than I did before.” This statement made by Wilbroad Banda, a teacher and student from the Garden compound...
Radio Without Broadcasting: Hope for the Unschooled
By Dr. Emile McAnany, Senior Research Advisor for the Center for Science Technology and Society, Santa Clara University. Zambia is one of the poorer countries in Africa, but it is a country with...
The Dark Side of Education
Phil Goodwin writes about the dark relationship between energy access and education.
A Response: From Nyamata to New York
By Frank Reidy, former Country Director of Refugee International Trust. This is a comment in response to Kristine Pearson’s blog about Rwandan head-of-household, Jonathan Macumi. Their faces...
The Tale of Zambian Trees
By Jack Bird. “Its just so…painful,” Boniface said as he pulled the motorcycle over on the side of the road. It was an understatement to say the least. Boniface, my agro-forestry mentor and...
Radio is Still Relevant
Hannah Fitt, Director of The SAFE Foundation, and Habbiba Mackintosh, a volunteer at SAFE, for World Radio Day, 2013 Back in 2010 we were working in India in the scrub jungle of Tamil Nadu. It ‘s a...
A Radio Station Lives on Because of their Dedicated Listeners
Karen du Toit, Afrikaans Archivist in the SABC Radio Archives, for World Radio Day, 2013 Springbok Radio, a former radio station of the South African Broadcasting Corporation in South Africa, closed...
Building an Open Platform for Radio Reporting in West Africa
Adam Thomas of Sourcefabric for World Radio Day, 2013 “There are conflicting accounts of the turn of events on the diplomatic front in the long-running Ivorian standoff, with reports that embattled...
The Many Sounds of Radio
Mary Myers for World Radio Day, 2013 My love of radio started in Mali in the early 1990’s in a small community station in Douentza in the arid Sahel, not far from Mopti. Radio Douentza was one of...
Video Didn’t Kill the Radio Star: Thoughts from an Irishman in Rwanda
Written by Frank Reidy, a radio journalist and former Irish Army Major, in honour of World Radio Day. Video certainly did not kill the radio star and the much vaunted demise of radio has just not...
The Power of Community Radio in the Internet Age
By Birgitte Jallov, founder of EMPOWERHOUSE. Cholera outbreaks were a recurring problem in Dondo, Central Mozambique, resulting in 200 painful deaths each year. Once the community radio station...
