By Nadeige

Essays

On Philanthropy & African-Led Change

The Wheel

A man dies in prison on the day he's set to walk free, and the conference down the street continues. On the three actors turning the same wheel — the West, the East, and the ones who should know better.

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Fighting for a Safe Home

On Rebecca Cheptegei, Agnes Jebet Tirop, and Damaris Muthee Mutua — and the uncomfortable truth at the center of women's economic empowerment work: you cannot change the woman without changing the system around her.

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Elsewhere

Fighting For A Safe Home

Written during my time as Major Gifts Officer at Grameen Foundation. A program-focused companion to the personal essay above — on Intrahousehold Dialogues, the Male Champion Initiative, and what it takes to get men to the table.

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Director of Major Gifts Visits Nakivale Refugee Settlement

A field dispatch from Nakivale, Africa's oldest refugee settlement — on Uganda's refugee policy, a VSLA group of mothers raising children with disabilities, and what it meant to visit the kind of settlement my own family passed through.

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