Cookshop.biz
Cookshop.Biz is a food delivery service like UberEats, Deliveroo or GrubHub, but operating under much different business and market conditions in Liberia. It is the first company in Liberia to accept...
10 Apr 20174min
JPalm - changing the palm oil industry in Liberia
Mahmud Johnson, a 25 year old Liberian Dartmouth graduate, returned to Liberia to found JPalm. JPalm supplies farmers around Liberia with palm oil collection machines and then helps the farmers sell t...
27 Feb 201711min
African Rain - Changing the way Liberia gets its drinking water
Monrovia has one of the most consistent rainfalls in the world, and is also the 'wettest' capital city in the world. However, potable drinking water is a huge issue in the country. Joel Gordon and Ch...
31 Jan 201713min
Bombchel Factory- Empowering Liberian women one skirt at a time
Archel Bernard, founder of the Bombchel Factory, discusses how her clothing company in Monrovia empowers Liberian women who were affected by ebola or sexual assault. The Bombchels (as the women who wo...
26 Jan 20179min
A Catalyst for Change - Somali presidential candidate Fadumo Dayib
Somali presidential candidate Fadumo Q. Dayib talks with On the Map, Off the Radar about her choice to run for office in order to initiate social change, why the 4.5 clan system of choosing a leader i...
8 Nov 201619min
Animals as arteries: how animal nutrient movement is changing the environment
Earth system models to date operate in a world without animals. In these models animals are assumed passive recipients of environmental conditions and plant processes, contributing negligible effects ...
29 Okt 201610min
CRISPR and Cas-9 - how gene editing may one day lead to a cure for cancer
Oxford PhD students Yale Michaels and Quentin Ferry discuss their research at the Fulga Lab using CRISPR and cas9 to edit genes, and the implications this work has for potential cures for cancer and ...
19 Sep 201616min
Sofar Sounds - redefining the live music experience
Sofar Sounds, short for 'songs from a room' is a global phenomenon that has re-shaped the live music experience, stripping it down to intimate gigs in intimate settings. Rafe Offer, one of the founder...
26 Jul 20168min
