Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is one of many African leaders to have gone abroad for medical treatment.
Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde
Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong, University of Bath
Health care systems in many African countries are very poor. Instead of fixing them, many African leaders seek medical attention abroad incurring huge costs and risks to their nations.
|
Health + Medicine
|
-
Lauren Graham, University of Johannesburg; Lauren Stuart, University of Johannesburg
South African learners receiving two meals, despite being from arguably poorer backgrounds, had statistically significantly lower stunting levels than children receiving only one meal.
|
|
Politics + Society
|
-
James Hamill, University of Leicester
The twilight of Jacob Zuma's ruinous presidency coincides with growing revulsion at his misrule of South Africa. But, it's important that his erstwhile supporters acknowledge their complicity.
|
|
Arts + Culture
|
-
Jeff Good, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
To understand the full scale of the world's linguistic diversity, we should be thinking about languages and how speakers relate to them.
|
|
From our international editions
|
-
Kevin Waite, Durham University
Displaying Confederate statues in a carefully curated museum would help end a toxic debate about the difference between remembering and venerating.
-
Katarzyna Kosior, University of Southampton
They are too well-behaved on Westeros – real-life queens often resorted to tears, temper tantrums and toilet humour.
|
|
