When constitutional democracy is under strain, how should we view disagreement among judges in a court of (supposed) last resort? Two weeks ago, South Africa’s Constitutional…
Author: The Conversation
When I was 17 years old, I travelled to India for the first time with my parents. At a food stall in Goa, the owner asked…
South Africans spent most of mid-July glued to their news outlets, from established media outlets to TikTok, from streaming news to old-fashioned printed words, to see…
The Sustainable Development Goals – a set of 17 globally agreed-upon targets for the year 2030 – are clearly listed and appear to be easy to…
Thousands of cases of cholera have been reported in Nigeria between January and June 2021. The northern states of Bauchi, Gombe, Kano, Plateau and Zamfara are…
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the sexual and reproductive health needs of women across contexts
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the restriction policies used to mitigate the spread of the virus, are being felt all over the world.
As of 2020, over 281 million of the world’s population live outside their country of birth. Australia hosts millions of these world’s migrants. It is one…
The recent media furore surrounding the “feud” between the celebrated Nigeria-born African diaspora writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Akwaeke Emezi conflates issues too easily.
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a historic shock to education, shuttering schools for over 1.6 billion children worldwide.