How online courses can bring the world into Africa's classrooms: When online and offline learning experiences meet, magic can happen. ShutterstockI am an anthropologist with a special interest in establishing the field of the medical humanities. This emerging field is wide open for producing new knowledge about the history and culture of medical practices. It focuses, for … [Read more...] about How online courses can bring the world into Africa’s classrooms | The Conversation
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How poor data affects Africa’s ability to make the right policy decisions | The Conversation
How poor data affects Africa's ability to make the right policy decisions: ShutterstockAfrican policy makers are increasingly called on to use evidence-based research to inform development decisions. But this requires the rigorous collection of data as well as a coordinated system to disseminate it. This is why Kenya-based African Population Health … [Read more...] about How poor data affects Africa’s ability to make the right policy decisions | The Conversation
The US election: what’s at stake for Africa’s quest to deepen democracy | The Conversation
The US election: what's at stake for Africa's quest to deepen democracy: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Sunrise, Florida. Reuters/Eric ThayerWhen my students ask about the implications for Africa under the direction of Donald J. Trump or Hillary Rodham Clinton, I have two reactions. The first, and easy one, is that with the November 8 … [Read more...] about The US election: what’s at stake for Africa’s quest to deepen democracy | The Conversation
Africa’s – Living Corpses’ Backed by Lawyers Who Beat Tobacco
Africa’s – Living Corpses’ Backed by Lawyers Who Beat Tobacco: Resting one hand on his wife's shoulder and the other on a crutch, Landile Qebula shuffles along, wheezing heavily. The retired gold miner is showing off his four-room house perched near the top of a dusty hill in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape province. Read the full article by here: Johannesburg, South … [Read more...] about Africa’s – Living Corpses’ Backed by Lawyers Who Beat Tobacco
How South Africa’s public protector has set a high bar for her successor | The Conversation
How South Africa’s public protector has set a high bar for her successor: South Africa's outgoing Public Protector Thuli Madonsela during a briefing with journalists in Johannesburg Reuters/Siphiwe SibekoSouth Africa is choosing a new Public Protector to take over from Advocate Thuli Madonsela. Her non-renewable seven-year term is coming to an end. Madonsela is credited … [Read more...] about How South Africa’s public protector has set a high bar for her successor | The Conversation
