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South Africa has no comprehensive national media literacy programme. Often it comes down to individual teachers and schools to make learners more media literate.
Police checkpoints liberally dot Kenya’s highways, but they’re not just about keeping road users safe.
Nigeria can save money spent importing citric acid by producing it from cashew waste.
Drug discovery research in Africa receives modest but essential international funding through philanthropic foundations and selected pharmaceutical companies.
In urbanising communities in sub-Saharan Africa, women cooking primarily with charcoal and wood had approximately 50% higher odds of likely depression than those cooking with gas.
It’s still fashionable today to promote tech startups and tech hubs based on models from the global north. But new, alternative and more sustainable models might be emerging.
Nigeria generates 2.5 million tonnes of plastic waste yearly. Research and public enlightenment can help address the problem.
Being gay in Africa can pose culturally specific challenges which the dominant, heterosexual culture may find difficult to accept.
The ongoing humanitarian crisis raises serious questions about future food and water security in the Horn of Africa.
Journalists may unwittingly perpetuate the notion that men are the only experts worth listening to. This limits the visibility of women in science.
On in South Africa at the Encounters film festival, the documentary is an intimate portrait of the great artist.
The ANC has been using multiple tactics to fend off the looming calamity of not having Ramaphosa as its president, and that of the country, in the clear absence of a credible candidate to replace him.
For the moment the find in Nigeria simply points to the potential for lithium resource. Full exploration will be necessary.
Colonisation, genocide and changes in official languages have resulted in the hybridisation of languages. A mix of Kinyarwanda, French and English is dubbed kinyafranglais.
Now is the time for African countries to start looking for African value chains or alternatives to global value chains.
Researchers have long argued that greywater could bolster South Africa’s food security if it’s used to water domestic food gardens.
Indigenous knowledge, African languages, queer rights and Afrofuturism are some of the issues discussed in the new book.
The level of education of the political class is not the key to progress.
A host of problems are behind police failures, including poor evidence gathering and the mistreatment of witnesses.
The seriousness of an epidemic is a function of several factors, including the degree of contagiousness and potential for rapid spread.
A return to debt sustainability will create room for African policy makers to stave off risks to the post-pandemic recovery.
The Panel of the Wise shows promise but more needs to be done to turn it into a proactive pillar of Africa’s peace and security system.
Widows in Nigeria are still exposed to harmful practices.
The transactional nature of politics reduces opportunities for debate and dialogue between elected officials and their constituents.