Dr Diane Bell, Cape Peninsula University of Technology According to the World Health Organisation report on hearing, mild hearing loss currently affects more than 1.5 billion…
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Across Kenya, Sudan, and Ethiopia, weak and feverish patients are being taken to hospitals by their worried families, stricken by a parasitic killer.
Rory Horner, University of Manchester The latest supply forecast for Covax – the programme for sharing COVID-19 vaccines around the world – suggests that accelerating vaccination…
Albano Agostinho Troco, University of the Witwatersrand It’s four years since João Lourenço was sworn in as Angola’s third president. He succeeded former president José Eduardo…
Phil Clark, SOAS, University of London Rwanda has sent troops to Mozambique to assist the government in fighting against a four-year Islamist militant insurgency. Political scientist…
Anton Eberhard, University of Cape Town Eskom, South Africa’s state-owned power utility, is facing a litany of challenges. The Conversation Africa asked Professor Anton Eberhard, director…
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature is the latest book from Ghanaian literary critic Ato Quayson. In this Q&A with The Conversation Africa Ghana editor Godfred Akoto Boafo, he shares insights into the book.
Lars Laestadius, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Chris Reij, World Resources Institute, and Dennis Garrity, World Agroforestry (ICRAF) Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is about to take…
Abiodun Odusote, University of Lagos Two states in Nigeria – Edo and Ondo – recently announced compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations for adults. Even after a court restrained…
Michelle J. Groome, National Institute for Communicable Diseases and Janusz Paweska, National Institute for Communicable Diseases As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on in Africa amid insufficient…