By pushing their usually valid complaints onto the streets and the courts, opposition leaders deny governments the popular goodwill and international credibility they need to govern effectively.
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Global cooperation is essential if climate action is to be effective, amid the right-wing onslaught against multilateralism.
Trade and investment can help reduce poverty, promote women’s empowerment, and support children’s rights. It can also do the opposite.
Mathematical modelling tools may predict where tsetse flies are being driven to extinction.
A retrospective exhibition displays the key works from the life and times of activist and artist Judy Seidman. She has used political posters as a galvanising force in the fight against injustice.
Land reform has always been closely tied to shifts in the wider political economy of countries.
There needs to be more awareness of the benefits of insects as food, and support for farming and markets.
When the military intervened against Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe in 2017, it wasn't widely called a military coup. New research shows that's exactly what it was.
As storm directions change, countries that are outside the usual tropical storm zones need to ready themselves.
Genetic analysis has traced the evolutionary footsteps of modern humans all the way back to a prehistoric wetland that spanned parts of modern-day Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe's food insecurity is not just about food production, but access too. It is affected by, among others, the value of assets when sold and social and cultural dimensions that go into exchange.
Higher education needs to do more than produce graduates who can get a job. It should also give students opportunities and a voice when it comes to participating in the economy and broader society.
Science fiction writing often serves as a thought experiment that explores shared and hidden beliefs whose material and political reverberations lie further in the future.
There are a number of effective interventions to prevent gender-based violence among adult women and men at risk of HIV infection. But little is known about the effectiveness of these in young people.
Sanders was not afraid to challenge and speak out about sensitive and difficult issues, to people in senior positions of power - and when he did, they sat up and listened.
Where should we place Mugabe among the pantheon of African nationalists who led their countries to independence?
Tropical cyclones Idai and Kenneth have shown how important it is to integrate local information and resources with global scale forecasts and support.
As Zimbabwe's financial situation worsens, the government pins its hopes on borrowing more money.
As the ultimate custodians, it is urgent that African countries with elephants take
ownership of the processes at CITES.
The Chinese National Tobacco Corporation is expanding its international markets through subsidiaries. Is the world ready for tobacco companies sponsoring or supporting schools?
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Professor of Development Studies, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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DLitt et DPhil Student in Politics, University of South Africa
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Visiting Professor, University of Kent
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Senior research fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Michigan State University
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Research Fellow, International Studies Group, University of the Free State
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor, University of Fort Hare
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Departmental Lecturer in African History and Politics, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in the Politics of Africa, University of Oxford
