Digital 09 February 2018 By Vivian Ng & Catherine Kent Your Smartphone is Watching You Smartphones rule our lives. Having information at our fingertips is the height of convenience. They tell us all sorts of things, but the information we see and receive on our smartphones is just a fraction...
Africa Greenhouse 08 February 2018 By John Stremlau Africa 'must nip' Trump agenda in bud US President Donald Trump did not refer to Africa once in his first State of the Union Address. His predictable focus was on several highly contentious domestic issues Americans will have to resolve for Africa...
Africa Lifestyle Travel 06 February 2018 By Uchenna Okeja The case for an African passport Embassies, visas and immigration officers. These things invoke nightmarish feelings in many people. This is particularly true in One cannot fail to notice the hallmarks of post-colonial performances of power at the gates of embassies...
Africa Lifestyle Book Reviews 06 February 2018 By Manosa Nthunya How to restore humanity stolen by racism African philosopher, Achille Mbembe, has gained an enviable reputation as a scholar that challenges the tenets of modernity. Some aspects of modernity Mbembe is known to challenge are characterised by the move towards more capitalistic...
Africa Lifestyle Health 24 January 2018 By Neo Tapela Why anti-tobacco messages are failing to reach rural Botswana Twenty-year-old Thuso lives in a small rural farming village in Kgalagadi South about 500 kilometres outside of Botswana’s capital city of Gaborone. It has a population of about 30,000 people. Only one in five households...
Africa 24 January 2018 By Melanie Flynn Illegal wildlife trade - the UK is a key player You might not have heard of a pangolin, but they are widely claimed to be the most illegally trafficked mammal in the With their armoured shell and long noses, pangolins are often called “scaly anteaters”...
Africa Water Energy 24 January 2018 By Brendon J. Cannon Why Kenya’s push for nuclear power rests on false or fanciful premises Kenya wants to go nuclear. Since 2012, Nairobi has been talking the talk and walking the walk. It has engaged the International Atomic Energy Agency and signed multilateral letters of intent in pursuit of nuclear...
Africa 19 January 2018 By Esther Ndumi Ngumbi More people went hungry in Africa in 2017. But new initiatives also bore fruit. The number of people experiencing food insecurity in Africa rose from 220 million people to 224 million people last year. The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s regional overview for the year attributes this to changing weather...
Africa 19 January 2018 By Laura-Stella Enonchong Disabled people in Africa get a raw deal. What’s been done to fix this The African Commission has drafted a new protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights that emphasises the importance of the right of people with disability to have equal recognition before the law....
Africa 19 January 2018 By Henning Melber & Reinhart Kossler Genocide negotiations between Germany and Namibia hit stumbling blocks Namibian-German negotiations about the genocide perpetrated in the former German colony South West Africa in 1904-1908 have just entered their third year. The start of the negotiations in late 2015 marked a turning point after...
Africa Water 17 January 2018 By Hatem Jemmali A water poverty map for all of Africa African countries are behind the global curve when it comes to providing people with clean water and sanitation services. A joint monitoring report by the World Health Organisation and UNICEF shows that 89% of the...
Africa Politics 17 January 2018 By Donwald Pressly President of Zimbabwe joins Twitter It is not normally news when a leader joins Twitter, but when the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa does so, it sure "Hello Zimbabwe and the World. I am proud to announce that this is...
Africa Politics 16 January 2018 By Ian Scoones Zimbabwe 'needs' land administration system Zimbabwe urgently needs a new system of land administration to harness development in the agricultural sector. The country’s land use and ownership have been significantly reconfigured by the fast-track land reform programme undertaken during Robert...
Africa Politics 15 January 2018 By John Stremlau Trump’s rant: Africa must take high road Official reactions from Africa were appropriately critical of President Donald Trump’s credibly reported comments about not wanting more immigrants coming to the US from “shithole” countries. This included all those south of the Sahara. A...
Africa 14 January 2018 By John Fraser A nasty smell about Trump Google tells me - and who am I to doubt it? - that in parts of England, ‘trump’ means a noisy So should the proud nations of Africa really be so upset when their countries...
Africa Lifestyle Health 13 January 2018 By Paul Mason & Anna Coussens Time to see TB patients as true champions in the fight against the disease Nearly 70 years ago, a range of antibiotics that could treat tuberculosis were first identified. But today almost two million people still die every year from one of the deadliest infectious diseases. That’s about 5...
Digital 10 January 2018 By Rafael A Calvo & Dorian Peters Engineers, philosophers and sociologists release ethical design guidelines for future technology If kids spend hours a day speaking to digital personal assistant Alexa, how will this affect the way they connect to real people? When a self-driving car runs over a pedestrian, who do you take...
Digital 09 January 2018 By Bhaskar Chakravorti Trust in digital technology is next frontier After decades of unbridled enthusiasm – bordering on addiction – about all things digital, the public may be losing trust in technology. Online information isn’t reliable, whether it appears in the form of news, search...
Africa 09 January 2018 By Rebecca Y. Bayeck African board games can be a classroom hit When most of us think about learning, we imagine a teacher and a classroom. In reality most of the things we know, and a great number of the skills we acquire as children and adults,...
Africa 09 January 2018 By Nic Cheeseman Rwanda’s model can't work elsewhere Rwanda is often touted as an example of what African states could achieve if only they were better governed. Out of the ashes of a horrific genocide, President Paul Kagame has resuscitated the economy, curtailed...
