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, […]