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A number of African states are taking positive steps to combat violence against girls and child marriage. But social and cultural barriers can nullify national laws and strategies.
To improve, African countries need to find a balance between political and economic matters. This is where leadership becomes particularly important. But this is currently lacking on the continent.
There is precedent for mass rehoming: just look at what happened to the Ugandan Asian population.
Higher education is a resource intensive enterprise. It cannot effectively function without a massive injection of resources in a sustained and escalated manner.
Increasing legume production can turn the tide for African farmers who struggle with poor soils, declining farm yields and worsening nutrition in one fell swoop
Despite having some of the best solar radiation levels in the world, the diffusion of solar energy systems in Africa has been very low
African governments and businesses must do more to assist young people by creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem to support them. Without this support, all of their potential may stutter and die.
More and more Africans are becoming citizen scientists – and the benefits are huge both for them as individuals and for science on the continent.
Mega development projects can have a positive impact. But there are risks. Between 2004 and 2013, some 3.4 million people were ‘physically and economically displaced’ by World Bank projects alone.
A new study shows an amazingly symbiotic relationship between the community and police in Nigeria: 70% of survey respondents claim that collaboration has brought safety to their communities.
It is arrogant and hypocritical for ranking institutions to declare that they’re building Africa’s legacy or its global partnerships on the continent’s behalf.
The Kenyan example illustrates the importance of constitutional guarantees for devolution. But it also shows that devolution is no magic bullet for the problems of corruption and ethnic politics.
Taking antiretrovirals is key to reducing HIV infection rates, but the challenge lies in making sure people who know they are infected actually take the drugs.
Many women across the world feel unable to refuse sex or request condom use. Empowering them could help bring down HIV rates.
It is important to nurture local companies and increase domestic participation in Africa’s emerging oil economies.
The lessons Paulo Freire learnt nearly 90 years ago and the theories he developed from painful personal experience still resonate across Africa’s schooling systems today.
It’s important to interrogate the key factors that pushed countries from Third World to First World status in the 20th century. Asia’s experiences hold many lessons for Africa.
Africa’s democratic promise of the 1990s has lost its shine. Hopes for accountable rule have faded in Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda. All have blocked the path to meaningful popular empowerment.
The scandal at Uganda’s Parliamentary Budget Office shows that figuring out the proper roles, functions, internal controls, and capacities is more pressing than ever.
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
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Lecturer in Law, University of East London
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Health Systems Researcher, Makerere University
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Lecturer, Department of African Languages, Makerere University
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Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
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Professor of Anthropology and International Development, The University of Western Australia
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Professor in International Development, University of Antwerp
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Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Warwick
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Professor of Higher Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Lecturer of Mass Communications, Uganda Christian University
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Professor of History, Durham University
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