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Fuji is a popular music genre in Nigeria, with its roots in wéré, a seasonal Islamic performance during Ramadan. Popularised by Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, it has become the most dominant of the Yoruba musical traditions. A documentary about Barrister’s life and times recently premiered. Saheed Aderinto, its director and producer, speaks on the motivation behind the film and what he wants viewers to learn from it.
El Niño weather events can cause droughts, now a regular feature of southern Africa’s weather, bringing with them crop failure and hunger. Climate change researcher Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi argues that vulnerable communities wouldn’t be so frequently devastated by these disasters if governments – which are already aware of the threat – prepared better.
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Saheed Aderinto, Florida International University
Fuji music is a way of life for millions of Yoruba people. It’s the prism through which they understand their world.
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Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Governments in southern Africa don’t invest enough in weather forecasting and fail to work together to prepare for natural disasters, leaving the most vulnerable exposed to successive droughts.
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Melanie Murcott, University of Cape Town; Clive Vinti, University of the Witwatersrand
South African courts are increasingly handing down judgments that take into account the future climate damage that new developments may cause.
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Sharon Fonn, University of the Witwatersrand; Marta Vicente-Crespo
How students are taught has been shown to be as important as what they are taught.
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Samuel J. White, Nottingham Trent University; Philippe B. Wilson, Nottingham Trent University
Honey has long been used as a natural remedy for many ailments.
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Kelley Gullo Wight, Indiana University; Peggy Liu, University of Pittsburgh
Not knowing whether their children will eat the healthy food put on their plates, parents may prepare a less healthy dish for themselves to serve as backup for the kids too.
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Azmat Abbas, Wilfrid Laurier University
Pakistan’s laws against blasphemy have been used to bring cases against numerous people over the years, and in particular, the country’s religious minorities.
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Pratik Raul, University of Canberra; Jeroen van Boxtel, University of Canberra; Jovana Acevska, University of Canberra
‘Neural noise’ isn’t the sounds you hear, but rather the variability of responses in your brain. Autistic people are thought to have greater variance that can be a disadvantage or a strength.
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