Makeba, who would have turned 90 on 4 March 2022, was a hugely influential artist and an icon of African liberation and identity.
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Twelve teams remain after the qualifying rounds of the 2022 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations - with Nigeria no longer automatic favourites as the competition diversifies.
Facing a growing bias against indigenous crops, Kenyan researchers set out to showcase the value in local options - and set a global standard.
Unresolved historical injustices, deepened in new forms, undermined compliance with Ghana’s COVID lockdown.
Emerging evidence shows that, for young people, the effects of COVID on education have already been devastating.
Young academies, which generally represent early career scientists, fared far better than their senior counterparts - a promising sign for the future.
There’s an intricate interchange of culture, tradition and societal narratives in the way the vulnerable boys and girls experience school.
Female Fear Factory by Pumla Dineo Gqola sees gender violence as a sophisticated ecosystem kept alive by socially manufactured fear.
People in the world’s poorest regions have not benefited equally from the recent advancements made in cancer screening, prevention and treatment.
Temporary measures such as legislative gender quotas can increase women’s access to political participation.
Urban poverty is having an adverse impact on the health of mothers and children.
Her celebration of black life, black beauty and black humanity through her films and music was subversive.
For her, art was a weapon in the struggle and a tool for education. She used every opportunity to build movements and to archive experiences in writing.
Adolescent girls and young women aged 15 to 24 accounted for 25% of new infections, while making up only 10% of the population.
Skin lighteners are being used more than ever before, especially in urban areas and among men.
Private and public violence rely on each other as forces that work together to ensure women and girls ‘stay in their place’ — the one that patriarchal social structures have prescribed.
The practice of blaming and stigmatising rape survivors has devastating consequences. It silences them and protects rapists. It discourages survivors from accessing healthcare and pursuing justice.
The idea of ‘disclaimer labels’ on altered images might curb women’s and girls’ struggle with body image is a false one - in fact, they may even make it worse.
Thanks to the public events and the scholarly engagement with her life and work, Charlotte Maxeke has become one of the most visible South African women from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The focus on building democracy should be on more intermediary outcomes, which can serve as building blocks for longer term democratic renewal.
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Communications Specialist, University of California, San Francisco
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Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa
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Network and Research Manager: ARUA – UKRI GCRF FSNet Africa, University of Pretoria
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Research scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Communications, Howard University
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Policy research officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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Doctoral Researcher: Faculty of Law, North-West University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Dornsife Endowed Professor of Global Health, Drexel University
