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Soon after Zimbabwe’s army confined President Robert Mugabe to his palatial Harare home this week – allegedly for his safety – it was announced in Luanda that Angola’s new President, João Lourenço, had relieved his predecessor’s daughter, Isabel dos Santos, of her position as head of the state-run oil company Sonangol. Are we witnessing the end of an era in which dictators stayed in power for decades? If so, it’s good news not only for Angola and Zimbabwe but for southern Africa as a whole.
It has been two months since hurricane María made landfall. As Puerto Ricans leave the island in even higher numbers than before, a demographer at Penn State surveyed those on the mainland to see if they had plans to return.
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Arts + Culture
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Monique Giroux, University of Lethbridge
Calls to "indigenize" universities must start with listening - to Indigenous scholars and nations. And real reparation will be painful for settlers, for it will be unsettling.
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Anne Rees, La Trobe University
In 1921 the US imposed strict immigration quotas on Australians and detained the excess arrivals in terrible conditions. Contrast this with today's treatment of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.
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Norma Dunning, University of Alberta
The use of the word Eskimos for a Canadian football team needs to end. It signals negative stereotypes and is considered by most Inuit to be a racial slur.
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Laura Stark, University of Jyväskylä
Creating more opportunities for young women and girls to work and earn money is a possible solution to early marriages. Subsidising secondary education to keep poorer girls in school is another.
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Environment + Energy
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Simon Dalby, Wilfrid Laurier University
What if we treated climate change as a health problem rather than an environmental one? There are lessons to be learned from the successful public health campaigns against smoking.
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Health + Medicine
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Maria Carolina Gallego-Iradi, University of Florida; David Borchelt, University of Florida
Researchers have found evidence of the same brain pathologies in dolphins that are present in the brains of humans who died with Alzheimer's. What might this suggest about Alzheimer's in humans?
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Politics + Society
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Alexis R. Santos-Lozada, Pennsylvania State University
A demographer at Penn State surveyed Puerto Ricans on the mainland to see if they had plans to return to the island.
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Science + Technology
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Dr. Youbin Zheng, University of Guelph; Deron Caplan, University of Guelph
The legal cannabis industry will have to develop scientific research and evidence based growth methods and technology if it is to succeed against the secretive illicit industry.
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