She Writes

PS has always been committed to amplifying the voices of the world’s leading thinkers – including the women, who all too often struggle to be heard. Now, we are offering a monthly newsletter dedicated to such women: She Writes.

Each issue highlights women whose ideas deserve wider attention, offers a curated selection of our most incisive women-authored commentaries from the previous month, and presents our latest woman-focused multimedia offerings. She Writes is thus an ideal resource for anyone seeking to discover new and noteworthy ideas – and the women who have them.

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Moky Makura and Jane Otai

Moky Makura is Executive Director of Africa No Filter, a donor collaborative that is working to change the narrative about Africa. She previously worked as a field reporter and news anchor in South Africa, and served as Deputy Director of Communications for Africa at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Makura has published a number of non-fiction books, such as Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs, under her own imprint, MME Media.

Makura created Nollybooks, a series of fiction titles aimed at getting young Africans to read, which were subsequently adapted for South African television.

How to Sell Climate Action to Africa

Makura advocates replacing the current disaster narrative with one focusing on economic opportunity.

Jane Otai, a development worker in Kenya, leads the Empowered Girls Initiative, which advocates for adolescent mothers’ rights to education, health care, and employment. She is also a senior program adviser for Jhpiego, a non-profit global health affiliate of Johns Hopkins University that focuses on delivering quality health care to women and their families. Otai is an Aspen New Voices fellow.

Having grown up in a slum herself, Otai has dedicated her career to helping women living in urban informal settlements in Africa access everything from family planning to HIV testing to immunizations and sanitation.

Africa’s Domestic-Violence Epidemic

Otai and Tijani Salami call attention to a widespread but underreported problem that demands a whole-of-society response.

Say More

An Interview with Antara Haldar on Partygate, the US Supreme Court, Homo Economicus, and more

Antara Haldar highlights a potential institutional advantage of developing countries, shows how the hesitation to appeal to voters’ emotions is putting progressives at a disadvantage, considers where the economics discipline is headed, and more.

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In “What the Ukraine War Means for Africa,” Aïchatou Mindaoudou shows how the continent can mitigate the heightened challenges arising from the conflict. Read more.

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