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Episode 77: Pioneering African Edutainment with Nisha Ligon
Glocal Citizens
English - June 08, 2021 09:00 - 49 minutes - 67.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBusiness Society & Culture Places & Travel entreprenuership argoadu llc gbekembe mmofra channel culture business travel glocal global africa Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week's episode is close to heart. I have as my guest Bangkok born, VA raised, globally trained and now achieving honorary Mbongo status in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Nisha Ligon, a social entrepreneur with a background in media and science, and a passion for education. She has produced content for the BBC, the Guardian, online learning platforms, and an award winning documentary, Twiga Stars [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEh2I8FYH_g]-- she's an avid footballer. Nisha holds an MSc. from Imperial College London and a B.S. from Yale.
Our paths intersect with her role as Co-founder and CEO of UBONGO, Africa's leading kids' edutainment company. Ubongo creates top quality, localized edutainment to help Africa's 500 million kids learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives. Their vision is to equip Africa's next generation with the educational foundation, critical skills and positive mindsets to change their own lives and communities for the better. Over 17 million families in Africa learn with our edu-cartoons and radio programs, and we're rapidly growing across the continent. At Ubongo, she’s lead visionary, series producer/ screenwriter, and does whatever it takes to get our products made, tested and released! Through a distribution relationship with Ubongo, LEAP Transmedia introduced Ghanaian children and families to the program beginning in 2015.
Where to find Nisha and Ubongo?
www.ubongo.org (https://www.ubongo.org/)
On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishaligon/?originalSubdomain=tz)
On Twitter (https://twitter.com/nishaligon?lang=en)
On Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/nishaligon)
On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/nishaligon/?hl=en)
On YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjsrL7gPn-S5SJJcKp-OYUA)
What's Nisha listening to?
How to Save the Planet Podcast (https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet)
The Cipher Podcast (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p090t9cl)
Homecoming [https://gimletmedia.com/shows/homecoming/episodes]
Pinna for kids (https://pinna.fm/)
Other topics of interest:
About Laura Poitras (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Poitras)
Ubuntu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy)
Tom Chi @ TEDx (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkyMCCnNI3Q)
Special Guest: Nisha Ligon.
Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week's episode is close to heart. I have as my guest Bangkok born, VA raised, globally trained and now achieving honorary Mbongo status in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Nisha Ligon, a social entrepreneur with a background in media and science, and a passion for education. She has produced content for the BBC, the Guardian, online learning platforms, and an award winning documentary, Twiga Stars [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEh2I8FYH_g]-- she's an avid footballer. Nisha holds an MSc. from Imperial College London and a B.S. from Yale.
Our paths intersect with her role as Co-founder and CEO of UBONGO, Africa's leading kids' edutainment company. Ubongo creates top quality, localized edutainment to help Africa's 500 million kids learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives. Their vision is to equip Africa's next generation with the educational foundation, critical skills and positive mindsets to change their own lives and communities for the better. Over 17 million families in Africa learn with our edu-cartoons and radio programs, and we're rapidly growing across the continent. At Ubongo, she’s lead visionary, series producer/ screenwriter, and does whatever it takes to get our products made, tested and released! Through a distribution relationship with Ubongo, LEAP Transmedia introduced Ghanaian children and families to the program beginning in 2015.
Where to find Nisha and Ubongo?
www.ubongo.org
On LinkedIn
On Twitter
On Facebook
On Instagram
On YouTube
What's Nisha listening to?
How to Save the Planet Podcast
The Cipher Podcast
Homecoming [https://gimletmedia.com/shows/homecoming/episodes]
Pinna for kids
Other topics of interest:
About Laura Poitras
Ubuntu
Tom Chi @ TEDx
Special Guest: Nisha Ligon.