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African academics should be leading the pack when it comes to producing research and information about the continent. So what’s holding them back?
Nobel laureate and Kwame Nkrumah’s economic adviser Arthur Lewis saw Ghana as a testing ground for his ideas on economic development. But he was met with fierce resistance.
Animalisation remains a malicious and effective form of dehumanisation. Simianisation is a version of this strategy, which historically manifested a lethal combination of sexism and racism.
Geoengineering could help regions affected by climate change deal with the problem.
Africa needs to develop a new generation of academics to drive the continent’s teaching, learning, research and critical thinking into the future.
By challenging the courts, King Dalindyebo is testing the degree of impunity with which traditional leaders can get away.
The egalitarian society envisioned by political activists and thinkers Rick Turner and Steve Biko has not been realised. But, they continue to inspire critiques of post-apartheid South Africa.
Black youth are grappling with the question of the meaning of freedom in post-apartheid South Africa. They seek an antidote to their reality wherein blackness continues to be mocked and marginalised.
India has learned valuable lessons about language and bodies of knowledge that could be applied in South Africa’s universities.
Africa has had border disputes through the millennia. But the continent has its own peculiar problems, most because of colonialism. Luckily, there are examples of good practice to deal with problems.
The Portuguese slave ship São José, which sank off Cape Town, was one of many vessels that either rounded the Cape or pulled into Table Bay for refreshment during the Transatlantic slave trade.
More than 1.5 million people die of tuberculosis across the world every year. Although testing and screening has improved and more drugs are available, it is not enough to conquer the scourge.
How realistic are expectations about Africa’s economic prospects? There are several reasons why we should be both optimistic and cautious about the continent’s future economic performance.
The migration of early Africans into the Middle East, then across the Mediterranean into Europe and Asia – and eventually into the Americas and Australia and the Pacific Islands – is the origin of today’s humanity.
South African scientists and scholars produce the most significant portion of Africa’s recognised research publications.
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Deputy CEO of the Aurum Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Department of Legal Studies, School of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Honorary Research Associate, School of Education, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Emeritus, Princeton University
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Emeritus Professor, University of Basel
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Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Hamburg
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Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Science and Consultant, Vice Principal for Research and Graduate Education, University of Pretoria
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Mellon Chair of Indian Studies and the Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Emeritus of Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Professor of Globalisation and Development; Director of the Oxford Martin Programmes on Technological and Economic Change, The Future of Work and the Future of Development, University of Oxford
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John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern University
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology