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Juliet Namanda teaching children at her home in Kampala, Uganda, due to school closures. Hajarah Nalwadda via Getty

February 15, 2022

Uganda closed schools for two years – the impact is deep and uneven

Simone Datzberger, UCL; Amiya Bhatia, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Jenny Parkes, UCL, and Karen Devries, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Emerging evidence shows that, for young people, the effects of COVID on education have already been devastating.

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa will need political courage to introduce basic income support. Photo by Peter Nicholls-WPA Pool/Getty Images

February 9, 2022

Basic income support in South Africa: risks, rewards and what it will take

Michael Sachs, University of the Witwatersrand

Basic income support is not a question of government “being generous”. The money will be taken from employed citizens and the affluent.

February 1, 2022

How black upward mobility fast-tracked racial desegregation in Johannesburg

Owen Crankshaw, University of Cape Town

Despite widespread black poverty caused by unemployment, progress has been made towards the goal of a racially equal society.

Rosa Eugenia uses a capulana masks produced at a small sewing workshop in Maputo, Mozambique. EFE-EPA/Ricardo Franco

November 25, 2021

Efforts to protect the poor during COVID: how five African countries fared

Jesse Lastunen, United Nations University; Pia Rattenhuber, United Nations University, and Rodrigo Carvalho Oliveira, United Nations University

Study shows that agriculture, one of the most important sectors, did not decline in 2020 compared to its historical trend. Service sectors were hit hard in each of the five countries.

Even if additional energy production capacity was added to the national grid through renewables, questions remain about whether access will be equitable and affordable. Lou Bopp/ GettyImages

November 8, 2021

Global energy targets don’t deal with people’s real problems in Zimbabwe

Ellen Fungisai Chipango, University of Johannesburg

Continuous growth of energy production and consumption, even from low carbon energy sources, could create more problems than solutions.

Unemployed Liberian young men seeking daily jobs at the industrial district of Bushrod Island, Monrovia, Liberia. EFE-EPA/Ahmed Jallanzo

May 4, 2021

How COVID-19 is likely to slow down a decade of youth development in Africa

Wim Naudé, University College Cork

Since 1999, extreme poverty has declined while rates of young people in education and employment have risen. Without investment though, the impact of the pandemic could see this progress imperilled,

Mary Twala Mhlongo is the star of This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection. Screengrab/Courtesy Urucu Media

February 3, 2021

This award-winning Lesotho film also has social justice at heart

Anna-Marie Jansen van Vuuren, Tshwane University of Technology

Lesotho’s first-ever entry at the Oscars is a powerful story based on true-to-life events in which a village is to be forcibly evicted to make way for a new dam.

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