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Do you remember the first time you talked about sex with your parents? I don’t - but I do remember that, like most of my friends, I was incredibly embarrassed at the thought of ever discussing such adult matters with my folks. After all, for many teenagers and parents alike, few topics inspire more dread than anything to do with sex. Ayobami Precious Adekola, a public health researcher who studies adolescent sexuality and sexual health, offers some helpful
advice for navigating “the talk” and explains why it’s so crucial that parents not shy away from these important discussions.
Migration is not new to Nigerians: for decades, people have looked for better opportunities in other countries. But now there’s a new wave dubbed japa, a Yoruba word meaning “to flee”, as young, middle-class people lose hope in Nigeria’s future. Jing Jing Liu, a sociocultural anthropologist, explains their motivations.
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Ayobami Precious Adekola, University of South Africa
This advice can help you to engage your teens in open, honest and helpful dialogues about sex and sexuality.
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Jing Jing Liu, MacEwan University
There’s more to ‘survival migration’ than an escape from poverty or war: even the middle class can feel they have to leave to survive.
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Environment + Energy
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Sean Avery, King's College London
There’s been an increase in the amount of runoff generated from rainfall as land is altered by settlement and deforestation.
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Ehiaze Ehimen, Atlantic Technological University; Thomas Robin, Atlantic Technological University
Biogas systems that generate cooking gas from plant waste can be relatively low-cost to set up. They come with environmental and health benefits for rural people who have only firewood to cook with.
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Melanie Samson, University of Johannesburg
Because waste pickers go through trash and leave behind everything without value, they know better than anyone which plastics should be eliminated.
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Krystal Tolley, South African National Biodiversity Institute; Graham Alexander, University of the Witwatersrand
There are 401 indigenous terrestrial reptiles in South Africa.
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Politics
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Jonny Steinberg, Yale University
Would South Africa have been torn apart by civil war without the myth of Nelson Mandela?
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Guy Lamb, Stellenbosch University
Firearms may provide firearm owners with a means of self-defence in confrontations with criminals, but the unlawful use of a licensed firearm can have negative legal consequences.
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Noah Tamarkin, Cornell University
The Lemba view is that one can be indigenous to more than one place, and that more than one people can be indigenous to a single place.
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Kahura Mundia, University of Nairobi
Doctors are demanding the implementation of a 2017 agreement to improve working conditions.
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Business + Economy
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Maria Jouste, United Nations University
Uganda Revenue Authority has turned its focus on small traders and VAT law enforcement after the World Bank funding freeze.
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Asgar Ali, University of Nottingham
Sudan has been a key exporter of gum arabic for decades. Producers have warned fighting could wipe out stockpiles soon.
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Katharina Fenz, Vienna University of Economics and Business
The Africa Youth Employment Clock is a new data tool which could be used to provide evidence-based policy interventions.
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Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, University of the Witwatersrand
Her book Daughters of Africa brought black women writers into the literary canon.
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