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Husband to the street side newspapers to dry up many people are clearly staying at home and minimizing quote hello how is the situation in nigeria for you and of course the neighboring countries hi sandra and hive us a big hello for me in Lagos Nigeria indeed the pandemic is far from over here have to unfortunately say but because people are staying at home the use of cashless Digital Payment systems has risen by almost 15 percent in the last few months i have a feeling that a lot of things are going to change here in africa as a result of coverage 19 but here are the who africa we will continue to focus on the important green themes coming up this week. The environment needs volunteers and help more than ever nowadays will need to kenyans doing what they can to assist. With meat and on the usual environmental activists from senegal and we will introduce you to a species of ants of in ethiopia that have been hunted almost to extinction. Is a famous on the streets of the senegalese capi
Fellowships to working biographers. Each of these fellowships is now worth 72,000, so not chump change. To date, some 20 biographies have been published including shirley jackson, one of the Prestigious National book critic award for biography. I also read the news about our brandnew wholly unique Masters Program in biography and memoir. It is just hard this autumn with at least 17 students enrolled which is phenomenal. And brenda is actually both a former director of the leon leavy center and she now teaches one of the core courses in the new Masters Program. Just a reminder what our next program is next wednesday september 25 at 6 30 p. M. With david nassau giving the annual lecture on biography. Tonight, im very delighted to have with us ben moser in conversation with brenda wineapple. As i said, branded as a former director of the leon leavy center and shes the author most recently of the mp chairs, the trial of Andrew Johnson and the dream of a just nation. A very widely reviewed