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Dr. Sekagja - A conventional medic turned herbalist

Friday, 01 August 2008 07:34 Duncan Mboyah

From time immemorial herbalists have been treated more with suspicion than a healthy respect and recognition by the people from the western world despite hundreds and even thousands of years of time-tested knowledge in Africa and Asia.

African people too have continued to misunderstand herbalists and at times interpret them to mean witchdoctors and occultists, hence causing fear amongst would be clients who are in dire need of effective but affordable treatment.

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Profile: Fidel Rutayisire

Wednesday, 28 May 2008 11:15 Rosemary Okello

{styleboxjp echo=no}Fidel Rutayisire, the Rwanda Man who rallied the world to sign the petition against Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Kenya during the post election violence{/styleboxjp}

The sight of Kenya burning on the television screen was enough to propel Fidel Rutayisire running looking for anything to help. In the words of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, “When a snake enters the house you look for the nearest stick to kill it.”

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Prof. Alfred Opubor; the first man to get his PHD in Media and Communication in Africa

Wednesday, 28 May 2008 07:06 Rosemary Okello

Being the first man in Africa to get a PHD in communication is not a mean feat for Prof Alfred Opubor a man who has shaped the way communication and evelopment is taught in the continent for the last four decades.

For him he atributes his achievement in acedeminc world of media and communication on what he calls; “ What my grandmother taught me about communication."

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