Contextual bias can play out in management studies in both North and South: shutterstock African scholarship is woefully underrepresented in prestigious global academic journals based in the US or Europe. This is particularly true in the field of management, which studies managers and organisations. As a result, global management knowledge hardly considers African contexts. … [Read more...] about Contextual bias can play out in management studies in both North and South | The Conversation
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Pasha 54: An African perspective on the coronavirus | The Conversation
Pasha 54: An African perspective on the coronavirus: shutterstock By the middle of February more than 2000 people had died from the coronavirus COVID-19, which was first identified in Wuhan, China at the end of last year. The virus has spread to a number of countries around the world – and of course, African countries are at risk, too. Screening and identifying patients is … [Read more...] about Pasha 54: An African perspective on the coronavirus | The Conversation
Why it’s important to study coronaviruses in African bats | The Conversation
Why it's important to study coronaviruses in African bats: Viral sequences related to known human coronavirus outbreaks have been identified in horsehoe bats. Dr. Low de Vries, Author providedThe current outbreak of a new coronavirus disease, named COVID-19, raises the question of where diseases like this come from and where the risks lie. By the middle of February almost 2000 … [Read more...] about Why it’s important to study coronaviruses in African bats | The Conversation
The lucrative trade in African primates threatens their survival | The Conversation
The lucrative trade in African primates threatens their survival: Barbary macaque and its trainer in Marrakesh square (Jemaa El Fnaa), Morocco Ilias Kouroudis/ShutterstockThe trade in African primates is a hugely lucrative business. Every year it involves hundreds of thousands of animals and threatens the survival of wild populations. Marilyn Norconk explains why this is big … [Read more...] about The lucrative trade in African primates threatens their survival | The Conversation
Avocados in Kenya: what’s holding back smallholder farmers | The Conversation
Avocados in Kenya: what's holding back smallholder farmers: Avocados are grown in several parts of Kenya Juliya_Ka/ShutterstockKenya is the world’s third largest producer of avocados. It’s also Kenya’s leading fruit export, accounting for nearly one-fifth of its total horticultural exports. But Kenya only exports 10% of its total avocado production. By comparison, Chile … [Read more...] about Avocados in Kenya: what’s holding back smallholder farmers | The Conversation
