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Chad’s presidential election on 6 May is supposed to mark the end of the transitional government, led by Mahamat Idriss Déby, who succeeded his late father Idriss Déby Itno in 2021. Helga Dickow sets out how Chad’s three-year transition programme has always been about securing Mahamat Déby’s hold on power.
It took many decades of resistance and sacrifice to defeat apartheid and win the right to vote in South Africa. As the country celebrates 30 years of democracy, heritage expert Duane Jethro argues that there’s a worrying trend in the commemoration of this struggle heritage: capitalist consumerism.
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Helga Dickow, University of Freiburg
Chad’s presidential elections on 6 May will officially mark the end of the transitional government but will not mean a break with authoritarian rule.
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Duane Jethro, University of Cape Town
Commerce, culture and heritage mix in rather strange and sometimes unsettling ways in South Africa, especially when the struggle for freedom is commemorated.
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Meelan Thondoo, University of Cambridge
African cities with over 10 million residents are getting hotter fast. Millions face disaster in these urban heat islands unless the cities start greening and adapting to climate change soon.
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Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, University of Adelaide
The South African novelist messes with the line between fiction and non-fiction.
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Evan Easton-Calabria, University of Oxford
While refugees in Rwanda have the right to freedom of movement and work, in practice it’s difficult for them.
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From our international editions
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Nicholas R. Micinski, University of Maine
The proposed EU asylum and migration reforms focus on securing borders and making it easier to deport people, with little protection for migrants and asylum seekers.
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Antaya March, University of Portsmouth; Cressida Bowyer, University of Portsmouth; Steve Fletcher, University of Portsmouth
The treaty focuses on ending plastic pollution, not eliminating the use of plastics. But some countries are more ambitious than others.
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Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., Harvard University
What I teach Harvard Law School students about the importance of opening arguments and how a majority of jurors make up their minds about a case after hearing them.
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Rohan Fisher, Charles Darwin University
The 2023 megafires burnt more than 84 million hectares of desert and savannah in northern Australia. That’s larger than the whole of NSW, or more than three times size of the UK.
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Samuel Murray, University of Liverpool
In the album, Swift claims that she can use heartbreak as a stimulus for creativity, rather than allow it to dictate her everyday life.
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