Africa

Rising sea levels may threaten 70% of Africa's heritage...

Hundreds of Africa’s heritage sites are exposed to sea-level rise and coastal er...

A short story by Ghana's Ama Ata Aidoo offers a view of...

Ama Ata Aidoo recognises the differences between humans and the existence of a h...

Like COVID, TB is a pandemic and must be treated as an ...

In 2020 TB case detection fell by almost 20% and mortality rose for the first ti...

God and illness: for some South Africans, there's more ...

It is not uncommon for people to believe that the cause of their illnesses is a ...

Maternal and child healthcare isn't reaching everyone i...

Urban poverty is having an adverse impact on the health of mothers and children.

Africans and African-Americans would honour Martin Luth...

King saw parallels between the anti-colonial movement in Africa and the civil ri...

Protected marine areas should serve nature and people: ...

The social, ecological and governance objectives of marine protected areas need ...

Time and trauma: what fetching water costs women and gi...

Fetching water entails physical hardship that can often lead to mental agony and...

From mercenaries to citizens: how the Nubians gained ac...

There is more to ethnic identity than ancestral location or settlement pattern, ...

Mesurer les travail des enfants: le cas des cacaoyères ...

La prévalence du travail des enfants, et éventuellement d'autres sujets sensible...

Fast food doesn't improve food security in urban Ghana:...

Fast food brands target high- and middle-income groups who have incomes to adopt...

How COVID affected markets and livelihoods in Kenya's f...

COVID-19 greatly disrupted local market dynamics at landing sites, within the co...

Ernest Shonekan obituary: an ineffectual leader during ...

Shonekan’s enduring legacy is in the business world and not the political arena ...

Southern Africa's Namaqualand daisies are flowering ear...

The progressively earlier flowering places the daisies at greater risk of failed...

Holiday reading: Five picks from a great year for Afric...

Tanzania might be in the news for producing East Africa’s first Nobel laureate f...