Using simple behavioural science models can help programmes to understand people’s lives and how to design nutrition interventions that directly benefit them.
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Dangote refinery will reduce Nigeria’s dependence on imported petroleum products and create jobs. But it may not be the best for the environment.
Avoid ‘get-rich-quick’ schemes. They are, more often than not, bogus and fraudulent business ventures.
The Venice Architecture Biennale has an African curator for the first time this year – and a shift in focus.
In addition to motherhood these girls experience social inequality, chronic stress, violence, and food insecurity. When teenagers become mothers, their adversities are compounded.
Jonny Steinberg talks about his intimate double biography of the famous South African leaders.
Biological and chemical substances are the most common food contaminants and account for over 200 food-borne illnesses.
Justice Mokgoro’s advocacy for group solidarity and reconciliation is discernible in several of her judgments.
Women who shaped modern Ghana have been erased from history. A children’s book aims to restore them to their rightful place.
Why is there such a great discrepancy between what scholars of education have been telling us and what happens in the classroom?
Social media use has adversely affected students’ English language learning in Ghanaian schools.
Time and information is of the essence when tackling infectious diseases across countries and continents.
The ethnicity outcry says more about today’s preoccupations with race than ancient Egypt’s.
Air pollution accounts for many deaths in Africa yearly. However, this may change if people learn to protect themselves and hold their leaders accountable.
A lot is said about kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria but little is known about how families mobilise resources and deliver ransom to kidnappers.
A third of South Africa’s farming income depends on irrigation. Disruptions in power supply put huge chunks of the country’s agricultural fortunes at risk.
At independence, adults were reading decolonial classics - but children were reading Enid Blyton. A generation of unsung women writers changed that.
University students are particularly at high risk of depression. One global study suggests 21% of students have major depressive disorder.
Singing at King Charles III’s coronation tells a story of global histories coming full circle.
Fuel subsidy removal can benefit workers and poor Nigerians, if the process is carefully managed and implemented.
Principais colaboradores
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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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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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
