Shehu Shagari Awandu, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology As an academic working at a university in Kenya, I’ve witnessed at first hand the…
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Michael E Odijie, UCL A cocoa pricing agreement designed to protect farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana from destitution is being circumvented by multinationals, the main…
Shabir A. Madhi, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa is in the grip of another resurgence of COVID-19. Gauteng province, the country’s economic hub, where 25%…
Richard Calland, University of Cape Town South Africa’s Constitutional Court has found former president Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 15…
Emily B. Wong, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) South Africa’s massive effort over the years to test and treat people for HIV has drastically improved public…
Akinwumi Ogundiran, University of North Carolina – Charlotte The Yoruba are among the most storied groups in Africa. Their ancestral homeland cuts across present-day southwest Nigeria,…
Tarminder Kaur, University of Johannesburg In outlining how soccer is played in South Africa, an executive of a soccer club in the rural Cape Winelands district…
Stephen Onyeiwu, Allegheny College Nigerians have been justifiably confused by conflicting poverty data presented by the Muhammadu Buhari administration and the World Bank. According to Buhari,…
John Poulsen, Duke University and Christopher Beirne, University of British Columbia African forest elephants roam the dense rainforests of West and Central Africa where they subsist…
Peter Cunliffe-Jones, University of Westminster; Alan Finlay, University of the Witwatersrand, and Anya Schiffrin Misinformation, best understood as false or misleading information whether or not it…