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Africa’s rising wave of urbanisation includes a large number of people over the age of 60. But new urban infrastructure in Africa’s largest city, Lagos, ignores the needs of this vulnerable population, writes Ojo Melvin Ogunbiade.
Zimbabweans are waiting on tenterhooks to see whether newly-inaugurated President Emmerson Mnangagwa will deliver on his many promises. But, warns David B Moore, the classic dynamic in politics everywhere – the interplay between militarisation and democratisation – looms large in the southern African nation.
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Heavy traffic in Lagos, Nigeria.
EPA/Ahmed Jallanzo
Ojo Melvin Agunbiade, African Population and Health Research Center
Old people in Nigeria's cities can't even rely on public transport.
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Emmerson Mnangagwa being sworn-in as the second president of Zimbabwe.
EPA-EFE/Aaron Ufumeli
David B. Moore, University of Johannesburg
Zimbabwe's new president promised to deliver the country citizens want but the nation remains on edge.
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Business + Economy
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Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg
The US president's comments about South Africa's land reform stem from his view that whites are under attack from blacks.
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Environment + Energy
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Hartmut Winkler, University of Johannesburg
The state capture inquiry will look at why former president Jacob Zuma pursued a dodgy nuclear deal.
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From our international editions
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J. Vijay Maharaj, The University of the West Indies: St. Augustine Campus
Author V.S. Naipaul, who died on Aug. 11, both scorned and mirrored his Caribbean origins. At the University of the West Indies, students must reconcile this conflicted titan's literary legacy.
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Patrick Byrne, Liverpool John Moores University; Karen Hudson-Edwards, University of Exeter
It's not easy to get all those metals out of the ground.
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