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As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to hit communities across Africa and around the world, governments across the region must continue to focus on keeping the education agenda going. Long-term ...
Mothers killing their children is not a new phenomenon, nor is it an “isolated case”, as the police in Timaru, New Zealand have maintained in an attempt to reassure the community. It is, however, a ...
Something’s a brewing, and something’s a bubbling in the flavour pot of world music and it comes from an unlikely source: South Korea. The K-pop/K-culture fare has spilled over into South Africa and ...
Within the feminist movement, African feminism occupies a unique position that challenges disempowering constructs issuing from both Western and African paradigms. Contrary to the disinformation about ...
By John Hunter, Ph.D. If you have ever been invited by an enthusiastic family member, friend, or work colleague to attend the graduation of a seminar that “transformed” their life, but they refused to ...
President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana addresses the General Assembly of the United Nations, New York, New York, September 23, 1960. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images) Posted in Equality, General We ...
It could be argued that the conceptualisation of gender equality is subjective and perhaps even relative because of the varied perspectives from which it is understood. For this reason, the debate ...
“Human mobility is not an invasion. It is not an intrusion. It is a human reality as old as humankind that we, as responsible leaders, have to learn to manage,” said William Lacy Swing, of the ...
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” — Albert Camus In 2016, ahead of his 85th birthday, Archbishop Desmond Tutu penned an opinion piece for The Washington Post ...
The Covid-19 pandemic has dragged African economies into a fall of about 1.4% in GDP, with smaller economies facing contraction of up to 7.8%. This has forced many already poor and heavily indebted ...
An Atlanta man with a sexual predilection went on a rampage earlier last week, killing eight innocent people. The perpetrator claims to have a sexual addiction for Far Eastern women — six of those ...
Gattaca, the 1997 dystopian science fiction film by Andrew Niccol, was prescient.It anticipated the inauguration of a newly class-stratified society based on genetics, the manipulation of genes to ...