Teachers can learn from each other and come to see that they are inclusive educators.
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Professional learning communities are a space for teachers to discuss their teaching methods and their immediate realities.
Nigerian model Favour Lucky wears wax print fabric in her designer look.
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West African designers produce only the clothes that are needed, preventing waste and allowing space for creativity.
The artist’s work is key to understanding Congolese culture in the last two decades.
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Sammy Baloji’s work allows us to revisit the DRC’s past and explore how art can help us understand decolonisation.
This trade in fish at Lake Kariba has dwindled as the water levels drop and fish spawning areas diminish.
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Lake Kariba stretches between Zimbabwe and Zambia. Its residents are bearing the brunt of a climate change-induced drought, with fish supplies dwindling and human-wildlife conflict occurring.
The April 1994 international mediation team in South Africa, with Washington Okumu sitting between the US’s Henry Kissinger and the UK’s Peter Carrington.
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In a matter of days, one Kenyan’s intervention helped give South Africa a peaceful transition to its first post-apartheid government.
Many musicians in Ghana do not make money from their careers.
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The viability of any music culture depends on the availability of musicians.
Play and storytelling are a crucial part of children’s cognitive development.
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Children benefit enormously from regular, cognitively stimulating interactions with their caregivers.
A person holds a candle at a night vigil during the 100-day commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
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Young people have little desire to bring up their parents’ divisions, but older Rwandans remain fearful of a resurgence of tensions.
Police officers take cover during a protest against insecurity in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Kenya’s deployment to Haiti would contribute towards the country’s role in enhancing global peace and security.
Students working in a laboratory.
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How students are taught has been shown to be as important as what they are taught.
South Africa’s coal fired power stations are breaching minimum emissions standards but shutting them down may jeopardise energy supply.
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South Africa’s national electricity plan is being finalised. A scientist argues that an energy mix of nuclear, clean coal, renewable energy and gas is urgently needed to end 15 years of power cuts.
Nollywood celebrity Patience Ozokwor, aka Mama G, pleads for the release of the more than 200 abducted Chibok school girls in Lagos on 29 May 2014.
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Governance failure and location of schools around large expanses of unprotected forest zones make school children easy targets for bandits in Nigeria’s north-west.
A US military drone at the Barkhane French military base, Niamey on 22 December 2019.
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Niger is cutting military ties with the US. This has implications for security in the Sahel region.
A man casts his vote during South Africa’s 2019 national election.
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The Independent Electoral Commission cannot afford to put a foot wrong in the country’s most important election since democracy in 1994, on 29 May.
Kenyan police arrest journalists protesting against a controversial media bill in December 2008.
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Important factors, such as conflict, are central to understanding a country’s degree of press freedom, development and democratisation.
South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim in 2014.
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In his work Abdullah Ibrahim looks to the past to offer a vision of the future.
Several campaigns have been waged against statues linked to Africa’s colonial past.
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The fate of several colonial statues in Africa continues to be a subject of controversy.
The research assessed newspaper coverage of fintech in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa.
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Coverage is celebratory and offers limited cautionary and critical reporting to the public and to policymakers.
Children will often sing and dance for visiting tourists.
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A school tour often sits within the itinerary of a tour of southern Africa, or alongside wildlife tourism ventures.
Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud with Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in March 2024.
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All states have limited security capabilities and they generally prioritise them close to home. where it matters.