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Editor's note
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It’s been a week of trying to recover from the devastation wrought by Tropical Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. One of the fallouts from the catastrophic floods triggered by the cyclone has been criticism of the South African media, which stands accused of not reporting the disaster adequately. Glenda Daniels agrees that the coverage has been poor. But, she argues, don’t blame journalists. The owners of media houses who have cut costs and are ignoring their mandate to inform the public are to blame.
It’s not often that a new species find leads to exclamations of delight. That’s been the response to the tiny new frogs that Mark D Scherz and his colleagues have found in Madagascar. Some are as small as a grain of rice. For his part Luther van der Mescht explains why cat fleas are such a pest on the African continent.
Finally, in a tribute to Nigerian-born curator Okwui Enwezor, Rory Bester outlines how he put African art on the global stage.
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Charles Leonard
Arts + Culture Editor
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Top Stories
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Glenda Daniels, University of the Witwatersrand
The lack of in-depth coverage of the southern African floods tell a grim picture of the state of South Africa's newsrooms.
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Luther van der Mescht, Stellenbosch University
By finding out more about the cat flea, researchers could maybe identify better pest control measures.
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Mark D Scherz, Technical University Braunschweig
The largest of these frogs could sit happily on your thumbnail. The smallest is just longer than a grain of rice.
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Rory Bester, University of the Witwatersrand
Curator Okwui Enwezor, who has died aged 55, will be remembered for the hugely generative legacy of everything he has achieved.
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Environment + Energy
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David Obura, The University of Queensland
Kenya needs a national strategic environmental assessment which focuses on the use of sand for large scale construction.
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Ndubisi Onwuanyi, University of Benin
Lagos has all the appropriate laws but it needs to adopt the right procedures and see them through.
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Business + Economy
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Timothy Njagi Njeru, Egerton University
The availability of data and evidence in the agricultural sector is critical for decision making
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Seán Mfundza Muller, University of Johannesburg
South Africa isn't having an honest debate about proposals to fix its power utility Eskom, and the role that renewables might play.
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Marie E. Berry, University of Denver; Laura Mann, London School of Economics and Political Science
Rwanda is a paradox -- a 'development miracle' and an authoritarian state.
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Sonwabile Mnwana, University of Fort Hare
Land reform programme has done very little to improve access to land for black South Africans.
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Politics + Society
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Albert Kasanda, Czech Academy of Sciences
The Democratic Republic of Congo's new leader Felix Tshisekedi is being undermined by the outgoing regime of Joseph Kabila.
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Evan Easton-Calabria, University of Oxford
Refugee self-reliance is a laudable goal, yet self-reliance agendas must account for refugees' individual circumstances.
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Education
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Omowumi Olabode Steven Ekundayo, University of Benin
Nigeria has the world's highest number of out-of-school children and over 60 million of its citizens are illiterate. Here's what the country can do to improve its education sector.
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Francois Cleophas, Stellenbosch University
The Greek body - white, muscular, masculine and middle class - dominated as an ideal type. This dominance continues today.
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