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Nakate Expanded: What’s Next for me in East Africa.
I’ve been busy! We’re looking to expand this season, and I’m looking for a couple qualified, passionate individuals to help me do so on the ground in Uganda and Kenya. Here’s a little bit about my...
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Nile Gold, @echwalu and African Spirituality
If you aren’t spiritual, Africa will send you running to something bigger than yourself in an hour’s time. Just what you need, on time, when you need it the most – like your own baby miracle, on a...
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Jazi, Expansion and The Heart of the World Speaking
If I could give you a piece of Africa, I’d give you color. Great, big, popping bananas off the side of my veranda and searing blue sky – clear like Lake Tahoe. Except the African sky goes to straight...
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“Was that Joy?” On Moving Beyond Entrepreneurial Burnout.
I believe that the secret is joy. “Was that joy?” Zadie Smith asked us, months ago. I’ve read and reread her essay. I’ve spent time with children. I’ve ecstacied. I’ve danced. I’ve watched the sun rise...
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6 Ways to Be a Better Solo Entrepreneur
Freeman’s is full of taxidermy and a foreign accents on a Wednesday at 8 pm, but it was quiet when I walked in two hours ago. “It’s spicy,” the bartender said when he handed me a taste of his favorite...
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What’s a Living Wage in Uganda? My Initial 30 Day Cost Survey
In August, Florence and I set out to determine how much our average worker needed per month in order to accurately provide for her family. I can ballpark payment for a skilled worker – someone living...
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I Can Have it All, & 8 Other Things I’ve Been Told about Girls Like Me:
“I want to put everything in this place in my great, big mouth.” That’s what my sister said in Downtown Manhattan’s Economy Candy shop last spring. That’s how my heart felt when I chose a life that...
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What’s a Living Wage in Uganda? Post III: Entertainment, Clothing and Education
I’ve been calculating an accurate living wage in Uganda since the summer of 2013. The goal: To build out a manufacturing facility in Kampala that pays its workers a wage calculated based on cultural...
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Join me for #birthdaydrinks!
If you have read my recent work on determining a living wage in Uganda, then you know that I am working to launch a manufacturing social enterprise in Uganda. This will be my second social enterprise,...
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Why #BirthdayDrinks Matters to One Ugandan Photographer
My name is Onyait Odeke. I am a Ugandan documentary photographer and entrepreneur. I first met Shanley in 2011 via Twitter where we shared with each other what we do and why we did the things we do. A...
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