Two Decades In: What It Takes to Build Circular Systems in Africa

This May, SST marks 20 years of advancing solutions to land-based waste and marine pollution across Africa. Throughout this period, one insight has consistently shaped the organisation’s approach: the challenge is not a lack of effort, but rather a lack of connected systems, resulting in fragmented impact and missed opportunities to scale interventions that work. From intervention to infrastructure SST’s early efforts focused on awareness and behaviour change – a necessary foundation. But as work expanded, it became clear that awareness alone cannot shift outcomes at scale. Behaviour change is…

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Africa Cannot Drink Potential!!

By: Alice Frimpong Sarkodie,Director – Nobel Heights School Every year on African Union Day, we celebrate our culture, our resilience, our beauty, our resources, and our dreams for the future. We speak proudly of the Africa we want. But this year, the theme of the African Union forces us to confront a painful but necessary truth: A continent rich in rivers should not be thirsty. A continent full of brilliance should not lack sanitation. A continent filled with potential should not still struggle for basic human dignity. The African Union’s…

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