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The economy has taken centre stage in Kenya’s 2022 elections, but political promises have fallen short of offering realistic solutions.
The early symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include headaches or dizziness, breathlessness, nausea, tiredness, chest and stomach pains and visual problems.
Nigerian popular music - Afrobeats - is storming the world’s stages. But it’s just the latest stage in a vibrant century of recorded music in the country.
Known as ting or amazimba, indigenous sorghum is resilient and rich in cultural and health benefits – yet crops are declining.
While many people rely on written signage to find their way around, oral language plays a significant role in giving directions in rural areas.
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A pair of killer whales are hunting and preying on South Africa's great white sharks, forcing the sharks to flee.
The New Development Bank doesn’t have mechanisms that communities can use to hold it accountable or seek redress.
PrEP enables adolescent girls and young women to protect themselves from HIV without having to convince a partner to use a condom at the time of sex.
This book succeeds well in describing and criticising, through many examples, how whiteness works.
Thousands of plant species are used in African traditional medicine. Extracts from some of these plants are part of important pharmaceutical drugs.
Labels that emphasise the social identities of the contending parties not only impede efforts to comprehend their causes but also obscure their vast dimensions.
The commission could have made more of the evidence and been more categorical about when it thought criminality had taken place.
Caracals that hunt closer to urban areas where human population density is higher, have higher levels of chemicals in their systems.
Referenda may well have a place in the country’s democracy, but if the form of an electoral system can be referred to a referendum, why not capital punishment, abortion or LGBT rights?
In democratic contexts, getting women into work empowers them. In autocracies like Ethiopia’s, this doesn’t hold. We found out why.
In all the research reviewed, none found any safety concerns regarding COVID vaccines during pregnancy.
How well Morocco manages challenges to its fertiliser industry will affect its own development and the stability of food supplies across the world.
South Africa needs a multi-pronged strategy for building peaceful, sustainable neighbourhoods, communities, and a nation where the rule of law prevails.
Adolescent alcohol consumption is driven by several factors such as the availability of alcohol and social norms.
Local institutions and systems of governance and peace-building are working despite insurmountable challenges.
Group Theory: Black Music is the name of the new album from the composer, drummer and scholar. On it jazz meets political theory.
Of the 20 million people living with sickle cell disease globally, more than 66% are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Wole Soyinka’s writing has explored the same themes for decades.
The thorny issue of testosterone testing has made news, not just the growing skills on the field.