Damilola Agbalajobi, Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria has very few women participating in politics. Only seven out of 109 senators and 22 of the 360 House of…
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On the afternoon of May 24, the Malian transitional president, Bah Ndaw, and his prime minister, Moctar Ouane, were arrested by members of the armed forces and…
Declan Finney, University of Edinburgh; Hellen Msemo, University of Leeds, and John Marsham, University of Leeds A cyclone, known as Jobo, made landfall near Dar es…
Bruce M Biccard, University of Cape Town In March 2020, those of us living on the African continent were terrified about what would happen. We had…
Leah R. Rosenzweig, Stanford University and Yang-Yang Zhou, University of British Columbia Using sports to understand social and political phenomena has become a common avenue for…
Emmanuel Mogaji, University of Greenwich In developing economies, many people are excluded in various ways from financial services. Including them is necessary for three main reasons.…
Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) has long been good at diagnosing its problems, but not much good at fixing…
Beth D. Packer, Tufts University and Juliana Friend, University of California, Berkeley Senegal has a robust history of women’s activism against sexual violence, which led to…
Miho Taka, Coventry University Humanitarian situations, especially protracted violent conflicts, are a serious barrier to accessing education. This is why, for 30 years, aid practitioners have…
Ine Van Caekenberghe, Ghent University Stretching back to pre-colonial Rwanda, a unique athletic performance akin to modern-day high jumping formed part of regular ceremonies in the…