South African teachers say it’s a struggle to apply their training about “inclusive education” in crowded, stressful classroom situations.
Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka with a group of children in Lagos. Research suggests that literacy in a mother tongue is a building block for multilingualism.
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Research tells us that multilingual literacy matters. But teaching children in Africa to read in their mother tongues as a springboard to literacy in other languages can be a fraught process.
There is a skewed distribution of skilled staff and an imbalance of skills.
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The fast thinking Nigerian government used a tried and tested tracking system and pooled expertise to contain the ebola virus in three months.
A 3rd year chemical engineering student from the University of Cape Town in a vacation “boot camp” to help with supplementary exam preparation.
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A more enlightened approach to child labour would listen to what children say about work, balance work and school, and enhance the flexibility and quality of schooling to cater for working children.
Many Nigerians have been displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency.
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The failures of the African Union raise serious questions about when to deploy its security apparatus in general and the Africa Standby Force in particular.
Despite increases in education attainment, the educated youth in sub-Saharan Africa find that there are no jobs suited to their levels of education.
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School enrolment rates in sub-Saharan Africa have increased markedly in recent years, but it is failing its newly educated young by not creating jobs commensurate with their education.
Mitigation efforts could help alleviate the impacts of climate change on food security and agriculture in Africa.
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The black middle class occupies a complex and sometimes precarious position in society, one that requires constant renegotiation.
Since the start of the new millennium, South Africa has had to contend with an HIV epidemic and a set of confused policies to address it.
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Many do not associate Africa with the high-tech sphere of “space”. However, in recent years, many countries on the continent have woken up to the potential and usefulness of space technology.
Mmusi Maimane was elected leader of the Democratic Alliance at the party’s federal congress on Sunday.
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With the election of Mmusi Maimane as leader, the Democratic Alliance, like the ANC, calculated that a black rather than coloured leader is needed for victory at the national level.
It’s not that Shakespeare needs to burn out – but it’s time for him to fade away.
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The expected departure of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Nigeria’s finance minister will leave Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa without a significant voice in the IMF and World Bank.
Although older women are not naturally prone to exercise, being part of an exercise group helps them to stay in a fitness program.
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The migration of early Africans into the Middle East, then across the Mediterranean into Europe and Asia – and eventually into the Americas and Australia and the Pacific Islands – is the origin of today’s humanity.
Wife of the late former South African President Nelson Mandela, Winnie Madikizela Mandela (centre), led a march during a ‘Women’s Day’ rally in Pretoria in 2000.
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