Category Archives: This is Africa

Frame Changers #264: Private Wings

[Public hospitals are typically funded by the government. Many of them have private wings that are for-profit and present a conflict of interest for doctors.]

Frame Changers #263: Gone Farming!

[While government corruption is gradually decreasing in some countries, addressing hidden corruption (school teachers, doctors, social workers, and others on government payroll compromising work to further personal interests) is the next frontier.]

Frame Changers #259: Streetlight Solution

[Streetlights and a 24-hour economy with supermarkets open at all times are helping reduce crime in the central business districts of African cities.]

Frame Changers #254: Ripoff Religion

[The Prosperity Churches are booming in Nigeria, Kenya and other African countries…at the expense of poor people who give up their meager possessions to get rich overnight.]

Frame Changers #253: Backyard Bananas

[Fruits and vegetables grown in the backyards of subsistence farmers are often organic because they cannot afford pesticides and insecticides and often rely on composting and other indigenous organic methods of agriculture.]

Frame Changers #251: Lean Medicine

Frame Changers #250: Heaven Calls

[Coffins shaped like cell phones are becoming quite popular in Ghana and other countries. As are names like “Ringtone,” “Simsim,” or “Whatsapp”.]

Frame Changers #249: Preaching at Bars

[There are several bars in Nairobi (and other large cities) where there are late night sermons at bars. I guess, if the bar won’t come to god then god must go to the bar.]