People walk through floodwater in one of Kenya’s informal settlements after heavy rains in Nairobi.
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There’s been an increase in the amount of runoff generated from rainfall as land is altered by settlement and deforestation.
Countries in east Africa are facing the harsh realities of climate change.
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Business and management graduates can become the kind of sustainability champions the world needs today.
Flamingos in Lake Nakuru, Kenya.
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New research shows increased rainfall due to climate change is threatening the birds’ food supply.
Portuguese map of the east coast of Africa, 1630.
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The history of the coastal communities of east Africa shows how ethnic groups and their languages were shaped.
Kenya’s former president Uhuru Kenyatta and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu signing agreements in Jerusalem in 2016.
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East Africa’s reaction to the war in Gaza appears shaped by history, affinity to the policies of the west and the threat of terrorism.
Former UK home secretary Suella Braverman (left) with prime minister Rishi Sunak. Both are of Indian-African descent.
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Members of diasporas may choose to identify with multiple homelands and host countries over time.
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Transboundary climate risks can cross borders, continents and oceans to affect communities on the other side of the world. Africa’s new roadmap seeks to address this.
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Without refugee status people aren’t able to receive valuable support, like the right to live and work in a country.
The experience of schooling matters as much as the practices it teaches.
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In this area, much of the work of being educated is only indirectly tied to the schooling experience.
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By the 1950s a standard version of the language emerged, today spoken by an estimated 200 million people.
The oldest known footprint of our species, lightly ringed with chalk. It appears long and narrow because the trackmaker dragged their heel.
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This was an area in which early anatomically modern humans survived, evolved and thrived, before spreading out of Africa to other continents.
Two juvenile baboons passively share information about a food source when one sniffs the other’s muzzle while feeding.
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Early life environments and adult social bonds both have strong effects on survival.
The Burundian flag flies at the head of a convoy of buses moving refugees back home from Tanzania in 2019.
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Tanzania’s refugee policy in the 1990s is a good example of how geopolitics affects ordinary refugees.
Detail from the cover of the children’s book Kayo’s House by Ugandan author Barbara Kimenye.
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At independence, adults were reading decolonial classics - but children were reading Enid Blyton. A generation of unsung women writers changed that.
How are people today related to those who lived centuries ago in the Swahili civilization?
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The first ancient DNA sequences from peoples of the medieval Swahili civilization push aside colonialist stories and reveal genetic connections from the past.
Kenyans protest against police extrajudicial killings in Nairobi in December 2022.
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Alternatives to violent policing already exist in the daily practices of Nairobi residents who don’t depend on the police for safety.
Kenyan fishermen demand a say in the country’s border conflict with Somalia.
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The joint border commission between Kenya and South Sudan is a step in the right direction.
Siddi children performing Dance Dhamaal in Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India.
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Dhamaal music and dance reveals a rich and complex mixing of cultures that is shaped by history.
Kampala is one of the three Eastern African cities that transformed with little historical precedence.
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East Africa is one of the fastest urbanising regions in the world, but it’s still in the early phases. There’s a big opportunity to get the region’s cities right.
Untitled by Ugandan artist Peter Mulindwa.
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Mwili, Akili na Roho represents 50 years of art from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania – from 1950 to 2000.