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Good news from Africa
It’s that time of the year again when news desks review the previous 12 months highlighting what is deemed important and newsworthy. And, as with
A bad year for bad guys
2011 was a year of extraordinary people-powered resistance, starting with the ‘Arab Spring’ and spreading across many parts of the world. How did this resistance
Time Person of the Year: The Protestor
No one could have known that when a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire in a public square, it would incite protests that would
Paying the bills and taking from their tills: pitching development in an age of austerity
21st Century Development animation that accompanied Bill Gate’s speech By Gentleman Scholar and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Last month Bill Gates delivered a
Making sense of ‘developmentspeak’
Macroprudential regulation is supposed to deal with two major issues: the procyclicality of the financial system, and systemic risk and moral hazard caused by systemically
Human Rights Day 2011, and the rest
It was Human Rights Day on Saturday! Does that mean every other day of the year is a human rights abuse day or, more accurately,
Nando’s ‘chicken’ out of spoof Last Dictator Standing advert
https://youtu.be/PYnL5oUePM8If you were Nando’s and you were receiving threats from Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF loyalists, would you have pulled your viral advert from
How to Write About Africa
First appearing in 2005 in issue 92, Granta magazine published ‘The View from Africa’ – a collection of memoir and reportage that sought to challenge
Current and future costs: COP17
The cost for South Africa of hosting COP 17 will, it is estimated, amount to some 400 million rand (approx. €40 million). The funds will
HIV & AIDS, 30 years on…
Today is World AIDS Day. It has been almost 30 years since HIV and AIDS was first recognised and diagnosed. HIV and AIDS has since