Maziwa Makuu Project, HR & Digital Consultancy

By: Wallace Mauggo Africa is in the headlines again about numerous areas suffering climate change-induced food shortages, and usually the critical ingredient is cereals, with the species or variety, depending on local culture, usage and market factors. For many years experts have compared food policies in different African countries to lessons on what works, what doesn’t work and why. It can’t be said that any generalized were reached that were accepted by experts of various viewpoints, as each case study used has it drawbacks, and as Shakespeare reflected, some happy, some sad. It is rather easy to draw a list of African countries on the basis of success and failures in their aggro-interventionist or subsidy policies, usually the lynchpin of suggestions on what to do about in agriculture generally, or food crops in that sense. The Maputo Declaration of the African Union set out in 2010 is reputed to have brought African countries to commit about 10% of ann...

Different Routes to the Top of Mount Kilimanjaro Dear readers, It is a common thing nowadays, reading newspapers, magazines, listening to radios, watching TVs, and browsing through all Digital Channels to hear that, ‘’Mount Kilimanjaro’’ is in Kenya. Such announcements are repeatedly uttered by a particular group of persons from Kenya and their agents abroad. A recent post on the Tumblr blog by the name of ‘’Yet Another Plat’’, dishonestly and publicly declared that Mt. Kilimanjaro is in Kenya. This is a total lie to me, you and everybody reading this article, unless one gives concrete reasons to believe otherwise. With that notion of people with crooked minds distorting reality about Mountain Kilimanjaro being in Tanzania, came up with an idea of creating a powerful hash- tag, and ultimately A #TwitterChat. The chat will be a starting point for like minded people to discuss all about the mountain and other factual data complementing its importance...