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South Africa’s slow economic growth and rising unemployment have been an ongoing concern for President Cyril Ramaphosa. And in the last three years the COVID-19 pandemic, unrest, floods and energy crisis have added to the economic woes. Dorrit Posel spoke to the president’s economic advisor Trudi Makhaya, as well as Kenneth Creamer and Liberty Mncube, who are on the Presidential Economic Advisory Council, about how to improve South Africa’s prospects.
A major new film in the Yoruba language is always an event, but Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman is particularly eventful. It is based on Nigeria’s most famous play, Death and the King’s Horseman, by celebrated writer and activist Wole Soyinka. And it was directed by the talented Biyi Bandele, who passed away just a month ago, leaving Nollywood reeling. The film premiered on Saturday. African literature lecturer Tunde Onikoyi tells us what the original play is all about.
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Dorrit Posel, University of the Witwatersrand
High unemployment rates are among South Africa’s biggest challenges. Three of the president’s advisors talk through what is needed to change the status quo.
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Babatunde Onikoyi, University of Regina
Elesin Oba, The King’s Horseman, is a film of a play by author and activist Wole Soyinka. It premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Ajike Saratu Omagbemi, Babcock University
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is common among women and girls in Nigeria but not many know its impact on their lives and reproductive health.
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Candice Bailey, The Conversation
Small, organised groups of South Africans who are stopping undocumented foreigners from using hospitals bring the issue of migrants accessing healthcare into the spotlight.
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Henry Ngenyam Bang, Bournemouth University
Cameroon has many potentially dangerous gas-charged lakes. But not much has been done to mitigate the risks they pose.
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From our international editions
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James Brunton Badenoch, Queen Mary University of London
As with COVID, monkeypox may do more damage than initially thought. A new study looks at the evidence for neurological damage.
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Nicholas R. Longrich, University of Bath
Columbus’s was the last of at least seven discoveries of the Americas.
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Richard Parker, University of Sheffield
We may have a stolen planet in our own Solar System.
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