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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.
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.
In a matter of days, one Kenyan’s intervention helped give South Africa a peaceful transition to its first post-apartheid government.
The viability of any music culture depends on the availability of musicians.
Water lettuce forms dense mats on the water surface. This can reduce light penetration and oxygen levels in the water, negatively affecting all aspects of aquatic life.
Children benefit enormously from regular, cognitively stimulating interactions with their caregivers.
Young people have little desire to bring up their parents’ divisions, but older Rwandans remain fearful of a resurgence of tensions.
Kenya’s deployment to Haiti would contribute towards the country’s role in enhancing global peace and security.
How students are taught has been shown to be as important as what they are taught.
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.
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.
Niger is cutting military ties with the US. This has implications for security in the Sahel region.
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.
Important factors, such as conflict, are central to understanding a country’s degree of press freedom, development and democratisation.
In his work Abdullah Ibrahim looked to the past to offer a vision of the future.
The fate of several colonial statues in Africa continues to be a subject of controversy.
Coverage is celebratory and offers limited cautionary and critical reporting to the public and to policymakers.
A school tour often sits within the itinerary of a tour of southern Africa, or alongside wildlife tourism ventures.
All states have limited security capabilities and they generally prioritise them close to home. where it matters.
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor, Khalifa University
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