Carola Lentz, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Attitudes towards Kwame Nkrumah have shifted from veneration to confrontation and destruction and, finally, to more subtle forms of remembrance.
A transgender woman at a safe house supporting LGBTQ residents in Kampala, Uganda. Anti-gay laws make certain homosexual relationships punishable by death.
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Stigmatised people living with HIV often suffer from fear, depression and abuse. It’s sometimes easier to stop a treatment regime than risk being ostracised or assaulted by the community.
Karim Khan, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, at a UN meeting in July 2023.
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Overall, differences in teachers’ subject knowledge could explain a third of the differences in student learning between the 14 countries.
The Ingonyama Trust has been accused of illegal practices in rural villages in KwaZulu-Natal.
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La dégradation de la note souveraine du Cameroun peut être interprétée comme un signal envoyé par les marchés au gouvernement, au moment où il bénéficie d’un appui financier du FMI.
Fishermen turning a boat on Lake Victoria in Kenya. The lake is covered by the aquatic plant water hyacinth.
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To build trust with an audience, scientists must demonstrate that they are competent experts. But they must also come across as warm, caring and human.
Suicide was recently decriminalised in Ghana.
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Local communities need to be warned more clearly and effectively if there is a threat of a storm surge and of coastal flooding.
Whistleblower Athol Williams, a former partner at Bain SA, testifies at the State Capture Commission in 2021.
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Rongai’s rapid development has happened without services keeping pace, and the rivers have paid the price.
Alexandra township is situated next to the wealthy suburb of Sandton, laying bare post-apartheid South Africa’s vast gulf between wealth and poverty.
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Efforts have been made to change the patterns of inequality in South Africa. But not enough has been done. Race-based inequality is still a real problem.