Rural Reporters

Mensah Charles

Charles Mensah is an avid writer and blogger and a final year Economics and Geography student who is based in Accra. He writes about business development for Konnect Africa. He is passionate about Africa's development. He writes on entrepreneurship, business, economics and social issues. He is also the Branding and Media head of "1 Billion Africa". Charles is also a Future Challenges blogger. Follow him on twitter @mensah_charles

COMMUNITY CHAMPION: How Diana Agbenyo is Building Student’s Leadership Capacity in Ashaiman Community

by Mensah Charles - Jun 28, 2016

Diana Setsofia Agbenyo lives in Ashaiman, a community (suburb of Tema, Ghana) which has a low rate of education coupled with increasingly low performance in most public schools in the community. Her passion for education...
Leveraging Communication Technology To Boost Healthcare In Rural Africa

by Mensah Charles - Jul 13, 2015

By Charles Mensah I came across an article by Ruth Aine on innovative healthcare platforms like the TMCG in Uganda that one can take advantage of irrespective of the person’s location. With the use of the...
GLOBALISATION: INTERCONNECTEDNESS AND THE DIGITAL MEDIA REVOLUTION

by Mensah Charles - Mar 18, 2015

By Mensah Charles Globalisation in my view has to do with the way the advent of technology has reshaped the world in smaller way. Some school of thought posits that, globalisation has impacted Africans and other...
SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING; CAN IT PROPEL AFRICAN ECONOMIES?

by Mensah Charles - Jan 27, 2015

By Mensah Charles Impact investing, which seeks to provide funding for social enterprises and organisations established for social impact cannot be underestimated as far as the development of the sub-region is concerned. Since its inception in...
GHANA: THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS ENDS IN 2015, WHERE DO WE STAND?

by Mensah Charles - Jan 27, 2015

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) comprise of the eight (8) international developmental goals set by the United Nations and the world’s leading institutions to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS, end global poverty and achieve universal education...