MSc in Agriculture for Sustainable Development 2020
South East, England
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The Kennedy Center Before trumps jealousy ruined it for everyone
Carole King watching Aretha Franklin perform
The event was the 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors, which took place on Dec 6, 2015
America was happier, rich in honor, the arts & community - Obama was President
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Here’s Russian pianist, Elisey Mysin playing Mozart at just 6 years of age. This is absolutely mind blowing.
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🔸This is hands down the most beautiful thing you’ll see on the timeline today.
#FambaRopaFamba #TeamZimbabwe🇿🇼
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“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.”
| Paulo Coelho
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🇷🇼 RWANDA, THIS IS OUR MOMENT! 🇷🇼
We are proud to announce that @RwikazaGentil our Executive Director, has been selected as one of the 7 finalists for Youth Changemaker of the Year at the EMY Africa Awards 2026, representing Rwanda 🇷🇼 on the continental stage.
This recognition reflects his commitment to advancing children’s rights, empowering teen mothers, promoting education, and strengthening peaceful families and communities.
🗳️ Support Rwanda’s Youth Changemaker!
Vote for our Executive Director at emyafrica.com by clicking the Poll button and selecting the Youth Changemaker of the Year category.
✅ Voting is FREE.
📅 Deadline: 30 October 2026.
🤝 This category is powered by @PeaceFirstOrg
Let us unite to celebrate youth leadership and make Rwanda proud! 🇷🇼
@jnabdallah @JosephRyarasa @Bayaseseb @A_sebutege @oswaki @harerimana_tito @MBatamuliza
#EMYAfricaAwards #YouthChangemaker #Rwanda #YouthLeadership #PeaceFirst
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Every human being has equal value. Every single one.
At the United Nations General Assembly, I challenged a world that still decides whose lives deserve protection and whose suffering can be ignored.
No race is superior. No people are disposable. Until we honour that truth, "everywhere is war" remains a warning we have failed to heed.
What the world needs now is love, with the courage to confront injustice and defend our shared humanity.
Love and a little kindness. For everyone.
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In 1951, the Sorbonne rejected Cheikh Anta Diop's doctoral thesis for arguing that ancient Egypt was a Black African civilization. Nine years later, he walked back in and forced them to accept it.
Diop didn't soften the argument to make it easier to swallow. He spent the next nine years building more evidence, while the original rejected thesis got published anyway in 1954 as Nations nègres et culture and made him one of the most talked-about historians in Francophone Africa. In 1960 he defended the reworked thesis and was finally awarded his doctorate.
He didn't stop at winning an academic argument. Diop went back to Senegal and built Africa's first radiocarbon dating laboratory, so African historical claims would never again have to travel through a European lab to be considered credible. He also developed a melanin dosage test, a method for determining skin pigmentation from preserved tissue, and used it on Egyptian mummy skin samples held in Paris after Egyptian authorities spent over a year refusing to send him access to the royal mummies in Cairo.
In 1974, he presented his findings at a UNESCO symposium in Cairo, in front of roughly twenty of the world's leading Egyptologists. Nobody reached consensus on his full thesis that day. But UNESCO's own record of the symposium admitted something important: Diop had exposed real inconsistencies in how African data had been handled in the field up to that point.
Diop was never actually trying to win over that room. He was building a lab, a method, and an evidence trail so that the next African historian wouldn't have to ask anyone's permission to study their own continent's past.
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🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Sadio Mané has invested £15 MILLION into a huge new project in his hometown of Bambali, Senegal. 🇸🇳❤️
The project, called SM10 Agro, will create 1,000 jobs and includes a 500-hectare mango plantation, processing factories and an agricultural college.
Around 78,000 mango trees will be planted, with the first harvest expected in three years.
🗣️ Mané: “I want the young people and women of my region to have real opportunities for education.”
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Liverpool academy graduate Isaac Mabaya has been called up to the Zimbabwe senior squad for their upcoming AFCON qualifiers.
Mabaya, who previously represented England at youth level up to U19s, has now chosen to represent Zimbabwe at senior international level.
Previous efforts had been made to involve the 21-year-old with Zimbabwe, but this call-up could see the Liverpool man make his senior international debut and earn his first cap.
The decision comes during a pivotal season for Mabaya, who turns 22 later this month.
The attacking full-back has also been registered in Liverpool’s first-team squad for both the Premier League and Champions League, qualifying as homegrown and club trained.
A new international chapter begins for Mabaya.
@nextgenzim
#Zimbabwe #lfc #Liverpool #afcon #Zimfootbalk
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Together, we are creating a better future for children and their mothers.
#TumurereYizeProgram
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Yesterday at Helping Heart Family Rwanda – Gitega ECD Center, located in Mwiri Sector, @KayonzaDistrict , we shared a beautiful moment with our children. We played, shared smiles, and enjoyed a meal together.
We are proud to see the children growing healthier and the progress made in reducing stunting. Most importantly, children of teen mothers now have a safe place to learn, play, and grow while their mothers return to school.
Together, we are creating brighter futures for children and their mothers.
#TumurereYizeProgram
#HHFRGitegaECDCenter #EveryChildMatters
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Today, we celebrate a beautiful and courageous girl, Mushimiyemana Françoise, who has successfully completed her Primary National Examination and achieved 63.00%.
For some, 63% may look like just a number. But for Mushimiyemana, it represents a journey from the street back to school, from uncertainty to hope, and from vulnerability to a brighter future. 1/4
@A_sebutege @JosephRyarasa @oswaki @harerimana_tito
#TumurereYizeProgram
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My girl ❤️, I will never forget you coming to me with one broken shoe in your hand. We never knew then how beautifully God had planned your journey. Today, my heart is full of joy and pride. 🥹❤️ You kept your promise! Congratulations, my girl! 🎓 We will always walk with you. 🙏🏾
Today is a very special and emotional day for Helping Heart Family Rwanda (HHFR). We are celebrating and congratulating our beloved girl, UMURERWA Clemence, for an outstanding performance in the S6 National Examination, where she achieved an incredible 85.80%! 👏🏾
But what makes today even more special is that Clemence is no longer only a child we once supported. Today, she is becoming part of the change. 1/4
@HuyeDistrict @A_sebutege @JosephRyarasa @harerimana_tito @PeaceFirstOrg
#TumurereYizeProgram
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🇿🇼 SOMETHING HAPPENED ON THE ZIMBABWEAN HIGHVELD - AND WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT IT.
Centuries ago, its people built Great Zimbabwe - the 1,000 year ancient stone city state in deep Sub-Saharan Africa.
Then in 1935, in colonial Rhodesia, Christopher Chetsanga was born in Murewa - Black, rural and on the wrong side of a racial system built to ration African opportunity.
Think about the improbability of what followed.
This was an era when racial hierarchy shaped who got the best schools, who had access to resources, who advanced - and whose intellectual potential colonial society expected to matter.
Yet the boy from rural Murewa kept going.
Murewa → University of Toronto PhD → Harvard postdoctoral research → Professor at the University of Michigan.
And he wasn't doing peripheral science.
🧬 Chetsanga was investigating DNA damage and the molecular machinery cells use to repair their genetic code - work relevant to some of biology's deepest questions about mutation, genome stability and cancer.
The international scientific establishment noticed.
🏅 Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
🏅 Member, African Academy of Sciences
🏅 President’s Award for Distinguished Contribution to Science & Technology
Then came another extraordinary decision:
He came home.
He helped build Zimbabwean scientific capacity through UZ, became inaugural Director-General of SIRDC and led the Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences.
Pause on the scale of that achievement.
A system structured to restrict Black advancement produced a boy from rural Murewa who crossed oceans, entered Harvard laboratories, became a professor at a major American research university and investigated the molecular machinery protecting the code of life.
That is not merely resilience.
That is intellectual audacity.
There is no straight line from Great Zimbabwe to Chetsanga.
But the question is irresistible:
What is it about this small patch of African highveld that keeps producing people audacious enough to build and discover at this level?
From mastering stone to investigating how life repairs its own genetic code.
🇿🇼 Different centuries. Different tools. Same Zimbabwean audacity.
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Tom Mboya was lucid, pragmatic, and eloquent. His concerns still ring true to this day. If these ideas were implemented, Kenya would easily take off economically.
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MUREWA RDC AT THE 2026 HARARE AGRICULTURAL SHOW!
Council is proud to exhibit at the Harare Agricultural Show 2026, running from the 24th to 29th of August 2026, showcasing the vast investment, agricultural, tourism, infrastructure, and community development opportunities available in Murewa District. Pass Through Our Stand and engage with our team. We are located in the Nelson Mandela Hall on the Mezzanine Floor on stands 86 & 87.
