Disparate Youth: What Young Academics Have to Say
The Season 7 finale features a compelling roundtable with young academics, Chebet Koske and Dorcas Mwigereri, discussing the realities of na...
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Nairobi Ideas Podcast
The Nairobi Ideas Podcast gives a public platform to the Kenyans changing the world with their big ideas. It is brought to you by the Mawazo Institute, a Nairobi-based research institute foc...
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Research in the Age of “Gen Z”
How are youth shaping and influencing the African research ecosystem and its future? As the youngest generation in the field, they bring wit...
Is the African Academy Broken? (BONUS)
If the African academy is broken, how can it be reimagined? In this bonus episode with Prof. Wandia Njoya, we pick up our conversation on ho...
Brain Drain and the Impact on the African Knowledge Economy
Can we reimagine education and create alternatives, or is the African university under siege? With Prof. Wandia Njoya, an Associate Professo...
Bridging Policy and Research to Advance Governance in Africa
We sit down with Dr. Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili, senior economic policy expert, former Nigerian Minister and Vice President for the World Ban...
Reframing Youth in Academia: Age vs. Experience
What does it means to be a “young” researcher in Africa? In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Elizabeth Mutua, a computer science lecturer...
Research in the Shadow of Conflict
In this Sixth and Final Episode of the Mawazo Ideas Podcast Season Six, scholars explore the impact of conflict on African women researchers...
A Fellowship of Funders: Finding Financial Support for Your PhD
The team explores how African women scholars fund their doctoral studies in this fifth episode of Season Six of the Mawazo Ideas Podcast. Th...
A Woman's Journey into the Research Realm
This season of the Mawazo Ideas Podcast, we are exploring the Realities of African Women in Research. Join us as we dive into what it truly...
Rising from the Research Fringe: A PhD Saga
In this fourth episode of season 6 of the Mawazo Ideas Podcast, the team explores how women scholars pioneer, research, and generally exist...
May The Force Be With You: Community in a Scholarly Quest
In this third episode of season 6 of the Mawazo Ideas Podcast, the team explores the role of community in the PhD journey. Scholars communic...
A New Frontier: PhD Journeys into the Unknown
In this second episode, we delve into the topic of Research Mobility among African women scholars. According to Momeni et al. (2020), academ...
A Science Quiz Night: The Future of African Cities
In 28 years, African cities are projected to be home to 950 million people and by the end of this century, 2100, Africa is projected to be t...
It's Getting Hot in Here: A Science Quiz Night about Climate Change
Mawazo builds platforms to help scientists communicate on the issues of our time. To unpack what the climate change looks like for the Afric...
How To: The investment pathway between ideas and impact for researchers
The research to commercialisation pipeline is plagued with a lot of unknowns and many researchers don’t know where to start when thinking ab...
How To: Fixing chronic food insecurity in Kenya’s ‘Bread Basket’
Dr. Jacqueline Kariithi is a trailblazing environmental scientist working in the Mt. Elgon region of Kenya, which makes up part of the count...
How Co-Visioning can Reshape Research in Africa
What might the future of education look like for Africa? In this episode, we share a discussion with Julia Jenjezwa, a Zimbabwean product de...
Season 5 Trailer: African Futures
How are African ideas being used to build the future of the African continent? Season 5 of the Nairobi Ideas Podcast returns September 15th...
The Threat of Climate Change to our Oceans & African Statehood
Our oceans are becoming "hot, sour, and breathless," says Dr. David Obura, a marine biologist supporting coral reef research and conservatio...
Impacts of Climate Change on Women and Girls in Malawi
What is gender based violence and how is it impacted by Climate change? It is estimated that one in three women will experience sexual or ph...