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Ese Emerhi

Conference Report Ese Emerhi 26 October 2023

Transform philanthropy to transform the world

The journey to host this year’s WINGS Forum in Nairobi, Kenya began in Mexico in 2017, the last in-person forum of WINGS where it was announced that the 2020 Forum would be held in Africa. …

Conference Report Ese Emerhi 19 September 2023

Conference Report: 4th Annual African Philanthropy Conference

This year’s 4th Annual African Philanthropy Conference in Saly, Senegal in August 2023, was hosted by TrustAfrica, African Philanthropy Forum (APF), Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investments (CAPSI), African Philanthropy Network (APN), East African …

Interview Ese Emerhi 19 September 2023

Interview: Mamadou Biteye, Executive Secretary of the African Capacity Building Foundation

I met Mamadou in July 2022 in Italy at the first convening of the Global South Impact Community (GSIC). The community is comprised of senior leaders from public, private, and philanthropic institutions across the Global …

Conference reports Ese Emerhi 16 May 2023

Solutions in Africa must be home-grown: Reporting from the Trialogue Business in Society Conference

For the past four years, the Trialogue Business in Society Conference has been held in South Africa (2023, 2022 and 2021 in-person and hybrid; 2020 virtual; and 2019 in-person) showcasing important developments across the corporate …

Analysis 3 Ese Emerhi and Chinedu Nwagu 13 March 2023

Finding the middle ground between form and function for community philanthropy in Nigeria

In Nigeria, the realities on the ground don’t always match up with the way funders operate. What would it look like if there was a system that supported small and local groups doing direct action? …

Interview 1 Ese Emerhi 28 February 2023

Sarah Mukasa on African philanthropy and why trust matters

I was lucky enough to catch up with Sarah Mukasa, Division Director, Women’s Rights at Open Society-Africa, in Entebbe, Uganda, after her plenary session ‘Strengthening an Infrastructure for African Philanthropy’ at the most recent African …

Conference reports Ese Emerhi and Tarisai Jangara 16 December 2022

Driving change: A new moment for African Philanthropy at the African Philanthropy Network Assembly 2022

The African Philanthropy Network (APN) Assembly in 2022 (co-hosted by the East Africa Philanthropy Network (EAPN), CivSource, and Uganda National NGO Forum (UNNGOF)) was the first assembly since the 2018 Assembly in Mauritius. The Covid-19 …

Opinion 1 Eshban Kwesiga and Ese Emerhi 15 September 2021

Trust is the currency of life – and the accelerator for community-led change

This article is part of a series of articles about Community-Led Philanthropy, co-hosted by GlobalGiving. The conversation explores the ways philanthropy can support community-led change.  There is an African proverb that goes ‘he who does not …

Opinion Nkasi Wodu and Ese Emerhi 9 June 2020

Bad philanthropy: The rinsing of toxic money

Last weekend, Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol, England, toppled a statue of Edward Colston, an English merchant who made his money off the slave trade. Colston was also ‘Bristol’s most famous philanthropist’, according to …