Tag: anticorruption

1+1+1+1 = 3

I am not good in numbers but the equation was right this time: there are four Fairplay winner bands, and together they will make three (yes, THREE!) songs…

Technology-Heavy Days in Nairobi

Who can deny the importance of technology in the digital era now? This is the time when we might smile more in front of our gadget screens instead…

Mission Nairobi

When people say time flies, they really mean it. I still can vividly remember the Global Youth Anticorruption Forum (GYAC) held in Brussels last May… and suddenly here…

When Life Is The Price of Integrity

Natalia Nikolaeva Magnitskaya never expected to lose her son, a corporate lawyer from Russia, Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky. She always hoped that Sergei will be a great man and…

Empowering Empowerment

When you’re having a conference of more than 1000 participants, like the conference we’ve got here, you cannot expect real dialogues inside the sessions. Most of it will…

Counting the Perception

 In a few days the Transparency International is going to publish the newest Corruption Perceptions Index. It’s an index which, simply said, measures people’s perceptions about the corruption…

Towards A Corruption-Free Kupang (and Indonesia)

Hendrik Bera, a 16 years student from Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, fell silent in his chair in the seminar room of Komunitas Salihara. The young man had just…

Aye Mama, Mafilika!

Kuli dziko lam’ntendere kutsidya ilo lanyanja ndikokulitu m’ntendele (there is a peaceful land on the other side of the lake and there is freedom) Ukokulibe nkhondo kulibe usiwa…

Education Institutions Should NOT Be An Incubator for Corruption

It is a fact that schools produce not only scholars, but corruptors as well. In many countries, we find that educational institutions seem to be filled by corrupt…

Embracing Youths to Fight Against Corruption

“Sir, I think the Sunshine Principle can be used to prevent corruption,” said a student in a class. The sun has the power to kill germs, he said….

What Is Artivism?

It’s a new noun. Activism paired with art. And the one who’s doing artivism is of course called an artivist. (I’m borrowing the phrase from Ndungi Githuku of…