Africa’s rural poor are reliant on biomass for cooking and heating, exposing them to high levels of pollutants As COVID-19 wreaks havoc across continents, an unfashionable killer silently and stealthily chokes the life...
Covid-19
Rethinking Urban Poverty and Inequality in Post COVID-19
Rethinking Urban Poverty and Inequality in Post COVID-19: Some Pointers for Policy Consideration in Ghana The challenges that faced the implementation of the partial lockdown in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area...
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...
Editorial: The old and new African diaspora
The articles in this special issue are derived from a virtual activity lasting just over five months between May and October 2020. Dubbed the Old and New African Diaspora: Before and After COVID-19, the series of...
Science isn’t enough to prevent disaster: the case of the desert locust plague in East Africa
East Africa is experiencing the worst desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) outbreak in decades. The outbreak began in early 2019 and science isn’t enough to save the livelihoods and ensure the food security of at...
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