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The ‘Africa Rising’ narrative has subsided, after its promise of pulling the continent out of poverty proved to be false. Lorenzo Fioramonti argues that the GDP focused storyline flopped because it was anchored on a faulty measure of development.
In Africa, a genus of snakes known as Echis or saw-scaled vipers, are responsible for a large percentage of deadly snake bites. Antivenoms can be effective. But, as Bianca op den Brouw explains, cheap variants produced in India and imported to the continent are proving ineffective against the vipers’ venom, contributing to higher rates of snakebite death.
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Workers at the Dangote cement mine in central Nigeria. Africa’s industrial policy favours big companies, not small.
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Lorenzo Fioramonti, University of Pretoria
The problem with Africa's model of industrial growth is that it privileges the formal at the expense of the informal and big corporations at the expense of small businesses.
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Environment + Energy
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Bianca op den Brouw, The University of Queensland
Indian-made antivenoms, common throughout Africa because they are affordable, showed little-to-no neutralisation of the African Echis venoms.
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Education
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Heidi Matisonn, University of KwaZulu-Natal
We want our children to flourish. To ensure that they do, we need to help them develop their sense of good and evil, justice and injustice. Engaging in politics is crucial to this development.
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Science + Technology
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Yashwant Ramma, Mauritius Institute of Education
Gathering data and testing teachers' knowledge allows researchers to develop scientifically-grounded advice for teacher education institutions.
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From our international editions
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Georgina Blakeley, The Open University
Move by the senate in Madrid came just after the Catalan parliament voted for independence.
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Stuart Messinger, Staffordshire University
A labour of love, this groundbreaking animation took six years and hundreds of artists to bring Vincent Van Gogh's vivid paintings to life.
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Joanna Waloszek, University of Melbourne
If you're tossing and turning in the middle of the night, these techniques may help you to nod off.
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Dan Romer, University of Pennsylvania
In recent years, the notion of a structurally imbalanced teenage brain has been faulted for bad choices. A review of studies suggests that a deficit in brain development is not to blame.
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