Kwame Adovor Tsikudo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Aid, trade and foreign direct investments typify China’s global rise and its African activities. Central to China’s expanding…
Browsing: Op-Ed
Nina G. Jablonski, Penn State Skin We Are In is a landmark South African book for children (and grown-ups) on the subject of skin colour. Published…
Pauline Bakibinga, African Population and Health Research Center In 2016, the World Health Organisation (WHO) set an ambitious target to eliminate viral hepatitis by 2030. This…
Carlos Lopes, University of Cape Town When the United Nations started framing its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2012 – a shared blueprint for working towards…
Tendesayi Kufa-Chakezha, National Institute for Communicable Diseases; Cheryl Cohen, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, and Sibongile Walaza, University of the Witwatersrand Since its emergence in late…
Tinashe Mushakavanhu, University of the Witwatersrand After being disenchanted with his work as a detective inspector in Rhodesia’s British South Africa Police, Derek Huggins quit his…
Alena Thiel, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Ghana has just carried out its latest population and housing census. This is an exercise organised every ten years. For…
A clash of the past versus the present has put the future of South Africa at great risk for more than two weeks. Supporters of former…
Freedom C. Onuoha, University of Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari recently inaugurated a project designed to prevent illegal activities in Nigeria’s coastal waters and enforce maritime regulations.…
time, South Africa is rudely reminded that its past continues to make its present and future difficult. It does not always recognise this reality when it sees it.