By Brandon Marc Finn, University of Michigan and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, The University of Melbourne Lubumbashi is a city in…
Tag: Africa
US health funding cuts: what Nigeria stands to lose
US president Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization is threatening funding for critical health…
Land seizure and South Africa’s new expropriation law: scholar weighs up the act
By Zsa-Zsa Temmers Boggenpoel, Stellenbosch University South Africa has a new law to govern the expropriation (or compulsory acquisition) of…
WHO in Africa: three ways the continent stands to lose from Trump’s decision to pull out
By Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University and Alexandra Finch, Georgetown University President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from…
Congo’s US embassy attacked by protestors as M23 rebels seize airport
KINSHASHA, DRC — M23 fighters seized a major airport in Goma, the largest city in eastern Congo on Tuesday following…
Why Africa’s young scientists should help check the quality of climate change research
By Christel Dorothee Hansen, University of Pretoria; Chukwuma Moses Anoruo, University of Nigeria; Deniz Vural, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre…
African countries need more PhD graduates but students are held back by a lack of money and support
By Oluwatomilayo Omoya, Flinders University; Olumide A Odeyemi, Flinders University; Omowale A Odeyemi, Obafemi Awolowo University, and Udeme Samuel Jacob,…
Zimbabwe scraps the death penalty – tracking the path to abolition
By Carolyn Hoyle, University of Oxford and Parvais Jabbar, University of Oxford Zimbabwe hasn’t executed anyone who was sentenced to…
6 best African sci-fi and fantasy books to read this holiday
Science fiction, fantasy, horror and other forms of speculative fiction are breathing new life into African writing. International awards, TV…
Gift-giving was practiced by early humans in Africa – how it spread and evolved
By Alan Fowler, University of the Witwatersrand For many countries around the world, December is an intense, commercialised period of…