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Africa has a long, complex past - and the study of its history as an academic discipline is similarly complicated. Glen Ncube explores how the historiography of Africa has changed and why it matters.
Meningitis kills more people in Africa than it does anywhere else in the world. Even though there are vaccines available, they are incredibly expensive. Ngozi Erondu proposes that governments on the continent must find fresh ways to collaborate to fight for lower cost vaccines.
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Afrocentric history emerged strongly during the post-colonial 1960s.
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Glen Ncube, University of Pretoria
A global approach to African history complements the radical post-colonial histories, while also asserting the role of the continent in the world's global pasts and present.
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Ngozi Erondu, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
To tackle diseases like meningitis, African governments must find fresh ways to fight for lower cost vaccines.
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Politics + Society
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Rob Ahearne, University of East London
Union Day is celebrated in Tanzania and Zanzibar on April 26 every year, but there is little unity to speak of between the islands and the mainland today
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Business + Economy
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Stephen Labson, University of Johannesburg
The need to connect African markets to aid development will once again be discussed at the World Economic Forum. The debate needs to move beyond the usual rhetoric.
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From our international editions
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Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland; Joshua Conrad Jackson, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
A new survey of French voters reveals a divide that predicts support for Le Pen. This same characteristic also explains Brexit and the election of Donald Trump.
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Steve Pinkerton, Case Western Reserve University
Many in the West treat blasphemy as an obsolete concept. A scholar argues that blasphemy laws in the West suggest otherwise, while also sharing common features with such laws in the Muslim world.
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Christopher Markou, University of Cambridge
Neuralink is probably a dangerous idea, but to the first person who fell into a firepit, so was fire.
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