“Does the weaker sex really have the upper hand?”
UBC MCF Alumna, Maureen Gitata, was one of four panelists on the Kenyan Television Show, Victoria’s Lounge. The topic was representative of International Women’s Day and asked the question “Does the weaker sex really have the upper hand?” – Check it out here.
Educating the Next Generation of African Leaders at UBC
“My year at UBC has defined me and transformed my way of thinking,” says Jonathan Abagre, a scholarship student from Ghana. Abagre and classmate Patrice Meteunou, from Cameroon, are the first two graduates of UBC’s MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program, a 10-year global initiative aiming to educate the next generation of African leaders. Read more here…
Mastercard Foundation Graduate Scholar Highlights Ghana’s Forestry Conservation Efforts in Association of BC Forest Professionals Magazine
UBC MCF Graduate Scholar in Forestry, Alesia Ofori, shares Ghana’s Forestry practices in article featured in the Association of BC Professionals Magazine, Read more here…
Mastercard Foundation Graduate Scholar Radio Interview
MasterCard Foundation Graduate Scholar Patrice Meteunou was recently interviewed by Radio Canada. Read more here……
Five Scholars Leading Change in Human Rights, Education and Business
MasterCard Foundation recently featured five scholars that are making change in the areas of social entrepreneurship, environment and human rights. Our very own Blooming Soyinka was featured. Read more here…
Africa Trip Report
This post is by UBC MasterCard Foundation Graduate Scholar, Isaac Jonas. Read Isaac’s bio and the bios of all the UBC MasterCard Foundation Scholars online. As I disembarked from the airplane at Abidjan Felix Houphouet Boigny airport in Côte d’Ivoire I quickly realized that it was going to be a busy week ahead by the huge […]
UBC MCF Graduate Scholar Attends Skoll World Forum
This post is by UBC MasterCard Foundation Graduate Scholar, Isaac Jonas. Read Isaac’s bio and the bios of all the UBC MasterCard Foundation Scholars online. On the 12th of April I went to England to attend the Skoll World Forum (SWF). My experience at the Skoll World Forum can be summed up as a rare […]
Made in Africa: The Beauty Africa Brings to the World
This post is by UBC MasterCard Foundation Scholar, Blooming Soyinka, and was originally published on the MasterCard Foundation’s blog. I remember the day the dean of the University of British Columbia called to tell that I had won the scholarship, and the tears of joy, not just on my face but on my mom’s face. […]
Dinner with Dr Jay Naidoo: The experience by Isaac Jonas
On August 21, 2014, the group, Young Pan African Dialogue (YPAD), organized a dinner with Dr.Jay Naidoo. Dr. Naidoo was an instrumental force in organising and forming the largest and arguably most organised trade union organisation on the African continent in the form of Congress for South African Trade Unions (COSATU). Today, among other things, […]