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Editor's note
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Unlikely as it may seem, there are eerie echoes between US President Donald Trump and Uganda’s leader in the 1970s, Idi Amin. One example is that the two presidents have similarities in their impulsive use of quick communication technology, writes Geoffrey Ssenoga. Trump is a compulsive tweeter while Amin loved dispatching telegrams.
Economic development has become synonymous with growth as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the past 60 years or so. But Lorenzo Fioramonti argues that the obsession with GDP has caused more harm than good and needs to be dropped and replaced with a focus on wellbeing.
For many people dogs are company and companions. Because people get so close to their canines, writes Marius Crous, some religions actually consider what happens to dogs when they die, and even if they go to heaven.
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Charles Leonard
Arts & Culture Editor
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US President Donald Trump and African dictator Idi Amin - different, but the same.
EPA and Reuters
Geoffrey Ssenoga, Uganda Christian University
Some may say it's far fetched to compare a 1970s African dictator with the President of the United States. But the similarities between Idi Amin and Donald Trump are quite startling.
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Business + Economy
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Lorenzo Fioramonti, University of Pretoria
Our approach to economic growth has done more harm than good and must be be replaced with more appropriate goals.
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Arts + Culture
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Marius Crous, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
In many cultures and religions dogs are more than protection and security. But do they have an after-life?
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Education
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Seán Mfundza Muller, University of Johannesburg
More must be done to develop mechanisms based on intrinsic motivations of committed, quality academics. It's important to limit the harms currently being caused by rent seeking.
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Alex Broadbent, University of Johannesburg
Critical decolonisation means accepting risk of error. It means considering whether indigenous knowledge systems might contain truths that western science hasn't accessed.
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Environment + Energy
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Robert Hecky, University of Minnesota Duluth
There are large amounts of methane and carbon dioxide dissolved in the deep waters of lake Kivu - if disturbed they could cause a catastrophe.
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Erik Nordman, Grand Valley State University
Kenya has abundant energy options like solar, and geothermal that are cheaper than coal. A proposed new coal plant could become a 'stranded asset'.
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Health + Medicine
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Craig Kinnear, Stellenbosch University; Brigitte Glanzmann, Stellenbosch University; Eileen Hoal, Stellenbosch University; Marlo Möller, Stellenbosch University; Michael Urban, Stellenbosch University; Monika Esser, Stellenbosch University; Nikola Schlechter, Stellenbosch University
The advent of genetic technologies has been reducing the time and cost attached to diagnosing rare genetic diseases.
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Jane Rahedi Ong'ang'o, Kenya Medical Research Institute
About three million people globally are 'missed' each year for Tuberculosis diagnosis. Many of them will die, some will get better, others will continue to infect others.
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Politics + Society
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Meera Venkatachalam, University of Mumbai ; Amy Niang, University of the Witwatersrand
Despite being led by different presidents over the past six decades, the French government's policy on Africa has been faithful to its neo-colonial roots. Will Macron's government be any different?
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Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand
The internal processes of South Africa's ruling ANC for electing the president is distorted by money, patronage, factionalism and vote-rigging. It negates the democratic legitimacy the party claims.
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Yu-Shan Wu, University of the Witwatersrand; Chris Alden, London School of Economics and Political Science; Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, University of the Witwatersrand
China has launched a quietly aggressive global trade, development and infrastructure initiative based on the ancient Silk Road model. But is Africa welcome on the journey to renewed prosperity?
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Sekou Toure Otondi, University of Nairobi
Since Kenya gained independence from the British, the country has marked two independence days every year. But is the 'self-rule' Madaraka Day celebration necessary?
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Science + Technology
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Chad Harris, University of Johannesburg
Successful policy interventions, especially those in the social realm influenced by the vagaries of human behaviour, don’t seem to travel well.
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