Go into any rural African village and one of the major status symbols is a radio. An exciting soccer game might be playing on a hazy black and white TV set complete with rabbit ears and powered by a ...

SAN DIEGO — A nonprofit that started here in San Diego, helping people on the other side of the world, has grown tremendously since its start in 1987. In fact, Village Enterprise is leading the ...

Ngwato' is not just a queer depiction on-screen, but a story about the relationship breakdown between sons and fathers.

BUSHENYI, Uganda--Laban Rutagumirwa charges his mobile phone with a car battery because his dirt-floor home deep in the remote, banana-covered hills of western Uganda does not have electricity. When ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Four years ago, Ghana launched a ...

This blog post was written by Mpho MacChambers, ONE Strong Girl Ambassador. There is an old African proverb that says ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. In my experience, it takes a village to ...

Sazini will bring a wealth of global development and nonprofit expertise to lead Village Enterprise's efforts in lifting families out of extreme poverty through entrepreneurship NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan.

In 2012, when Moses Aloo inherited a plot from his grandfather, his neighbourhood in Kisumu, western Kenya, had plenty of farmland. But over the past decade, as Kisumu has grown, Nyamasaria has become ...

Four years ago, Ghana launched a campaign to welcome people from the African diaspora back to the continent of their ancestors. The country has even created a settlement offering free land to ...