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The rise of Uganda’s youthful singer-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine, has opened the lid on the generational challenge that President Yoweri Museveni faces. Young voters have never been a key constituency for the septuagenarian Museveni, and their political threat was dismissed before. But, write Richard Vokes and Sam Wilkins, that is changing. Bobi Wine’s rise to prominence is a harbinger of things to come.
Many people across Africa who need mental health treatment seek out indigenous or faith healers. But studies that assess the continent's non-biomedical health care systems tend to assess the healers as all being the same. They’re not. Lily Kpobi and Leslie Swartz explain why and what they found about differences in opinion about various mental illnesses among various faith healers in Ghana.
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The ground is shifting under the feet of Uganda’s ruling party, the National Resistance Movement.
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Richard Vokes, University of Western Australia; Sam Wilkins, University of Oxford
Whether the enduring face of this new politics is Bobi Wine or someone else, Ugandan politics is clearly changing
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Health + Medicine
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Lily Kpobi, Stellenbosch University; Leslie Swartz, Stellenbosch University
Understanding the different beliefs about disorders is important in efforts to improve mental health care in developing countries.
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Politics + Society
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Adrien Ratsimbaharison, Benedict College
A major challenge for Madagascar's new president will be to create jobs, especially in the industrial and service sectors.
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Education
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Alex Broadbent, University of Johannesburg
The way humanities disciplines are taught at many universities does not lend itself to ready engagement with a changed and changing world.
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From our international editions
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Anthony Ware, Deakin University
A new report recommends the UN Security Council refer members of the Myanmar military – and potentially some Rohingya forces – to the International Criminal Court.
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Andy Turner, Coventry University
Research confirms what the world’s elite sports stars already know – being kinder to yourself, and to others, and being grateful is good for your mental health.
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