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Held every two years, the Venice Architecture Biennale is arguably the most influential exhibition of its kind in the world. It brings together architects from across the planet to show their design thinking for the future. For the first time ever it is being curated by an African architect, Lesley Lokko, from Ghana. A radical thinker, she has put African architecture front and centre at Venice this year. Architecture professor Tomà Berlando is attending the preview ahead of this weekend’s grand opening. He discusses how Lokko has flipped the script.
Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela are two of the most famous South Africans of all time. They have been turned into larger-than-life figures thanks to their crucial role in ending apartheid and bringing about democracy. But they were also very human figures, with flaws, loves and losses. Award-winning author and academic Jonny Steinberg reveals the process behind his new book on the couple - Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage - and how they
are a mirror for the liberation struggle in the country.
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Charl Blignaut
Arts, Culture and Society Editor
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Tomà Berlanda, University of Cape Town
The Venice Architecture Biennale has an African curator for the first time this year – and a shift in focus.
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Jonny Steinberg, Yale University
Jonny Steinberg talks about his intimate double biography of the famous South African leaders.
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Politics
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Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand
Activists view their moral case for the return of the diamonds as unanswerable, but it runs up against many complications.
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Hone Mandefro, Concordia University
Ethiopia’s mass housing project has built and transferred half-a-million houses in two decades – but it’s damaging the social fabric of communities.
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Guy Lamb, Stellenbosch University
The crux of the arms-to-Russia allegations relates to the content of the US intelligence reports.
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Khristopher Carlson, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
The Sudan army’s superiority is in its air force and arsenal of ground forces while the rival paramilitary force relies on nimble mobile units.
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Environment
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Obiora Ezeudu, University of Nigeria
Using leaves for local food packaging is beneficial for health and the environment.
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Business + Economy
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Jonathan Munemo, Salisbury University
Washington’s protectionist industrial policy is fracturing trade and investment flows based on geopolitical considerations.
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Owen Nyang'oro, University of Nairobi
The number of elderly people in need of support in Africa is projected to grow at annual rates above 3% up to 2050.
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Health + Medicine
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Antonina Mutoro, African Population and Health Research Center
Biological and chemical substances are the most common food contaminants and account for over 200 food-borne illnesses.
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Education
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Pedro Tabensky, Rhodes University
Why is there such a great discrepancy between what scholars of education have been telling us and what happens in the classroom?
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Ramos Asafo-Adjei, Takoradi Technical University
Social media use has adversely affected students’ English language learning in Ghanaian schools.
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Science + Technology
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Elizabeth Lange, State University of New York Oswego
Early life environments and adult social bonds both have strong effects on survival.
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TC Afrique
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Peter Tiako Ngangum, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Des programmes intensifs de formation à la sécurité sont nécessaires pour assurer la sécurité des journalistes lors des manifestations, des conflits et des guerres.
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