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Nigeria’s religious leaders can shape the environmental worldviews and behaviour of their congregations
To rebuild lost trust in the media will require more commitment and effort than just papering over ethical cracks.
Women’s motivations for joining terrorist networks belie Kenyan media accounts of naive girls manipulated through romantic notions of Jihadi brides or wives.
The virus is always present in nature and when circumstances allow, it may jump from one species to another.
With research that offers new insights, there is increased hope for improved climate predictions and better preparation for severe weather conditions.
With the community, the group of theatre-makers and academics created a play that could also serve as a policy brief on what’s missing from the battle to reduce drug use in Durban.
Empowerment can mean different things for different women, but access to information is key. In Mali radio is the main source of information.
The current tensions have been driven by a delay in elections.The only feasible solution is to ensure that they take place.
The action targeted the Australian media, but there’s been collateral damage much further afield.
Countries in the West Africa region are in a very different position to seven years ago. They now have the experience of the past as well as new tools to tackle Ebola.
The truth remains that no artist through Nigeria’s postcolonial years has contributed close to what Fela did – and continues to do - for human rights and social justice.
Africa’s key to future food-nutrition security may depend on the untapped potential of indigenous fruit trees.
Nigerian students are consuming alcohol in alarming quantities, and for psychological reasons. What can be done?
When natural habitats are isolated it means species are less able to migrate, leading to less genetic variation and species diversity.
A new book explains the manifestations of the oil curse in Nigeria and Angola since independence.
Whites lived well under apartheid and it is not absurd for black leaders to want all to live in the same way.
Adolescent girls face unique challenges in times of conflict and crisis yet they are rarely consulted about how to engender peace in their communities.
Occasionally, a mutation will give the virus a better chance of surviving and reproducing itself, and will result in a new population (known as a new lineage)
The former president is in a corner and largely isolated. His only option is to stir the pot so much that it gives him some kind of bargaining power.
We propose five principles that could guide a proper ethical and legal framework for germline editing and similar technologies.
New technologies and supermarket supplier development programmes can help integrate small agro businesses into local and global value chains.
The pandemic will not end for anyone, anywhere until it is controlled in every country. Tanzania’s approach will make it that much harder for normality to return.
Even those that live in areas where the population has already been vaccinated would not be totally protected if the virus mutates elsewhere.
Aliens arrive in Lagos in Nnedi Okorafor’s celebrated sci-fi novel Lagoon – and with them they bring a future free of restrictive gender norms.