Mini-grids and solar systems are a lifeline for Africa’s underserviced rural health clinics Laura Stachel first realised that lack of electricity impaired the delivery of life-saving care when she conducted research in...
Africa in Fact
Early warning as a crisis management fundamental: Applicability to the managing of the Covid-19 pandemic funds in South Africa
The managing of any crisis tends to be defined by the extent to which suitable measures are available and implemented to address the potential impact of any such eventuality. Adjoined to the process is the degree of...
Book review
The Political Economy of Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa Edited by Andrew Emmanuel Okem and Lucky E Asuelime. Routledge, London and New York; 2018 In pre-industrial society, one used wood and fire for heat and light,...
UK youth activism – from die-ins to airport delays
Black British youth are protesting in various ways, mirroring the Black Lives Matter movement in the US Black British youth, in the era of neoliberalism, face high rates of unemployment, increasing rates of...
COVID-19: skewed outcomes for African-Americans
Social distancing and mass quarantine have added to racial stereotyping and stigmatisation Those who contend that a pandemic is a great equaliser, affecting both rich and poor of every race, would do well to delve...
What black scholars can teach the post-pandemic world
History shows that diaspora thinkers have had distinctive insight into the nature and operation of the geopolitics of place and race As we begin to consider the global transformations bound to follow the upheavals of...
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