Despite Buhari’s 2015 claim that Boko Haram was “technically defeated”, jihadists continue gaining ground across Lake Chad and West Africa, where the humanitarian fallout is, if anything, worsening.
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A University of Cape Town medical student doing yoga for a project that draws on ideas from medical and health humanities. (Photo/Third Year Yoga SSM Group).
New Ways Of Thinking On Health, Arts And Humanities Emerging In Africa: Hello Music And Yoga
Artists compose music to open up understandings of health care and specific conditions. Some academics open use everything from yoga to photography to observation and drawing to help educate health sciences students.
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The map that went viral. (Image/Sukhmani Mantel).
What We Learned When Our Map Of Southern Africa’s Rivers Went Viral
Maps have fascinated people for centuries. They are inherently political. What we see on a map either aligns with our view of the world, or doesn’t. When it does, we share it confirms our beliefs.
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Proverbs Tell Us How Peoples Govern Their Emotions: What A Study Of Ghana’s Akan People Revealed
Elders are not expected to grieve in public. Success should be acknowledged but not to the extreme because that would lead to pride, which is a cultural no-no.
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A coup attempt failed in Gabon. (Photo/EPA).
The January 7 Coup Bid In Gabon Surprised Everyone. Why Forecasts, And The Plot, Failed
The conditions present in Gabon were far less conducive to a coup than the vast majority of previous attempts. So why would the plotters take such a risky action?