8B Education Investments has signed up more than 54,000 Ugandan students onto its Community, comprising both university and high school A Level students. The student signups in Uganda are part of a wider campaign to reach and sign up as many...
8B Education Investments Signs Up Students in Ghanaian Universities and High Schools
8B Education Investments reached out to Ghanaian universities and high schools as part of ongoing student sign up campaigns. Beginning in October, the 8B team in Ghana managed to organize informational and signup events with various learning...
8B Education Investments Announces $111.6 Million Initiative at the 2022 Clinton Global Initiative
At the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in September 2022, 8B Education Investments announced a $111.6 million initiative to finance African students in global universities. With this initiative, under the commitment to Accelerate African Access to...
Advice to Africans: We need to retire the idea of brain drain
Dr. Lydiah Kemunto Bosire argues that those who oppose African student mobility on account of brain drain should retire the term: it is patronizing,...
The World of Work in a Post-Pandemic Era
GTS convenes thousands of strategists, key opinion leaders, and relevant stakeholders to shape the future of talent through education, innovation,...
Tertiary Education in Crisis: Implications for African Stakeholders
Higher education is facing a crisis. Universities are grappling with the optimum way to blend online and offline education system. There is a...
How Africa Can Lead on Global Racial Justice
Dr. Lydiah Kemunto Bosire explains why Africa can lead the global movement for racial justice and the UN should give an official role to nations...
How to Make Society’s Risk Capital Riskier
Philanthropy must hire outside the box, write the first check, and take unsolicited applications. Rob Reich has argued that philanthropic...
The African Union Needs a COVID-19 Think-And-Do Tank
As the trajectory of the COVID-19 crisis continues to evolve, the African Union must activate Africa’s global human capital in a think-and-do tank...
Fit-For-Purpose Priorities for a Pandemic-Threatened Future
Whatever else we do, we need to revamp focus on our prevention and response capacities: make the pivotal, proven investments that can strengthen the...
Future of Edtech in post COVID African Markets
Aubrey Hruby and Gyude Moore are joined by Sim Shagaya, Femi Longe, and Lydiah Kemunto Bosire to discuss how COVID-19 will affect Edtech across...
Finance & Sustainability Colloquium
This lecture hosted by Cornell University’s SC Johnson School of Business and the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise discussed the impact of...
Talent of the Future Panel
In this “Talent of the Future” panel at the Georgetown Africa Business Conference, Dr. Lydiah Kemunto Bosire spoke along with Jake Obeng-Bediako,...
Mobilizing Private Capital for African Higher Education
In the Ford Foundation’s Inequality Series, Dr. Lydiah Kemunto Bosire, Founder & CEO of 8B Education Investments, talks about the importance of...
