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Kenya is doing incredibly well in its efforts to control malaria. But its interventions have also had unintended consequences: people living in high transmission areas are starting to lose their immunity to the disease. Andrew Githeko and Ednah Ototo explain what this means for the country’s fight against malaria.
A skit on China’s English language TV station CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala featuring ‘blackface’ actors has provoked an outcry over its outright racism and Chinese stereotypes about Africa. Roberto Castillo argues that behind the skit lies a consistent top-down, ego-boosting effort to represent China as Africa’s entry point to modernity.
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Treated bed nets are effective in preventing malaria where mosquitoes bite indoors and late at night.
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Andrew Githeko, Kenya Medical Research Institute; Ednah Ototo, Kenya Medical Research Institute
Kenya has managed to reduce the number of malaria cases in parts of the country. But this, in turn, has led to immunity levels dropping.
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Arts + Culture
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Roberto Castillo, Lingnan University
China's offensive 'blackface' skit intended to highlight the positive aspects of China-Africa relations, has done the opposite.
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Environment + Energy
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Mary Galvin, University of Johannesburg
South Africa is a water-scarce country where inequity and a lack of fairness and justice pervades water distribution.
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Politics + Society
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Hillary Musarurwa, Durban University of Technology
Youth participation in elections and governance processes in Zimbabwe is low.
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Education
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Sioux McKenna, Rhodes University
Social class plays a huge role in people's experiences of accessing and succeeding in higher education.
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From our international editions
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Coleen Suckling, Bangor University
Extreme weather led to starfish mass strandings along beaches in Kent and East Yorkshire.
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Katherine Foxhall, University of Leicester
One stock history of medicine tale is that trepanning is one of the most ancient treatments for migraines.
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Mellissa Prunty, Brunel University London; Emma Sumner, UCL
Practice and experience is vital for acquiring a motor skill like handwriting.
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Veronica Herrera, University of Connecticut
In many Mexican cities, water is treated as a political bargaining chip – a favor that public officials can trade for votes, bribes or power.
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