Achenyo Idachaba-Obaro harvested the reedy stems of the water hyacinth from a dam near Ibadan with a particular mission in mind. With deceptively beautiful blue flowers, water hyacinths are a blight in the water channels of the West African country. Fast-growing, choking, they keep fishers from their traditional livelihoods. But Idachaba-Obaro, an entrepreneur, was noodling […]
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How A Startup Born At MIT Built A COVID-19 Mass Testing Site In Nigeria
Genevieve Barnard Oni realized the scope of the pandemic and the extent of her power to help as she was sending messages to China. She hit send. A woman in China would respond, with mundane but important information: Order numbers for test kits. Delivery dates. “She would respond sometimes to me at 3 a.m.,” Genevieve […]
