Social Entrepreneur | Educator | Writer | Passionate about Africa & Menstrual Health & Hygiene | My last book is "Les Combattantes", Librinova, Paris, 2021
@RichardMunang Mon frere bonsoir! Happy to know that you continue empowering us, helping us shift our minds, and do what needs to be done. We know how important is tree planting. Why are we not planting trees, especially in countries like the ones in the Sahel? Why is it not a priority 4 us?
Real change happens when evidence meets coordination.
As part of the Sang Pour Sang (SPS) initiative, we’re working with partners to align advocacy priorities, address regulatory barriers, and strengthen sustainable access to menstrual health products.
Systems change takes teamwork. #EndPadTaxNow #FromMenstrualShameToDignity
You are welcome! Happy and very healthy new year! Keep the good, great and useful work up. And yes, my warmest greetings to our princess! Elle est une grande femme maintenant!
In Kenya, the informal sector drives 83% of employment. Small kiosks are where most get products. Find gaps, solve them. Markets ARE people. Close a gap and tap into that market. Don't complain; seize the opportunity! #Kenya#Opportunity
Building a solution without a market means you skipped crucial homework. Understanding the market gap is essential—or your product risks getting lost without solving a real problem. #MarketResearch#ProductDev
75% of decision-makers say thought leadership led them to consider products or services they were not previously considering.
That is not marketing.
That is influence operating in plain sight.
Yet most professionals with deep expertise remain invisible. They wait to be discovered. They assume good work speaks for itself.
It does not.
The world does not reward the best ideas. It rewards the best-communicated ideas.
Here is what working across 40+ countries on climate and environment solutions has taught me about visibility.
First, visibility is not vanity. It is infrastructure for impact.
I have watched technical officers with brilliant field innovations reach no one beyond their project reports. I have watched young people document their solar dryer cooperatives on video and attract buyers, partners, and investors across three countries.
Same quality of work. Different reach. The difference was communication.
Every post is a deposit. Every insight shared is a bridge. Every voice raised publicly opens doors for someone watching in silence.
Second, those who communicate shape what gets funded, scaled, and prioritised.
Over 70% of African NDCs include clean energy and agriculture. $4 trillion sits in African domestic capital waiting for bankable projects. 600 million young people will join the workforce by 2050.
These are not just statistics. They are decisions waiting to be influenced. And they will be influenced by whoever makes complexity visible, translates technical work into accessible insight, and speaks until the right people listen.
The policy conversations I have shaped did not happen because the work was better than others. They happened because I communicated it relentlessly until people who had never read a climate document understood why it mattered.
Third, the discomfort of visibility is the advantage of the future.
If people ask why you are posting, why you are putting yourself out there, what you are trying to prove, that question is not criticism. It is confirmation you are somewhere they are not yet willing to go.
2026 will not reward those who had the best ideas in private. It will reward those who had the courage to share them in public.
Not for applause. For access. Not for followers. For influence. Not for ego. For others.
My grandmother never heard the word "algorithm."
But sitting by her fire in Kom Valley, she understood its lesson perfectly.
She once said: "A song sung inside the hut reaches only the walls. A song sung at the well brings the whole village to listen."
She was not talking about LinkedIn. But she was talking about the same truth.
What you know in private has limits. What you share in public has reach.
If there is anything I have said that you should remember, let it be this:
Visibility is not vanity. It is leadership in the open.
#Leadership #Visibility #Communication #Africa #ThoughtLeadership
In Africa, over 80% are in the informal sector. How can de-risking facilities help microfinance reach those who need it most? To drive innovation, we need to include the bulk of the population. #Microfinance#Africa
Waou! Terrible cette information et cette realite que vivent les femmes. Les menstruations c'est la vie, cela fait partie de nous, de notre feminite. Alors, etre obligee d'arreter ses menstruations, c'est renoncer a une partie de soi, a sa feminite, et ca, c'est terrible.
Élévation du niveau de la mer au Bangladesh : les femmes poussées à prendre la pilule pour arrêter leurs menstruations et éviter les infections https://t.co/SB8ItuuK5e