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In 21st century Nigeria, it is a crime ‘to be modern’

Sakiru Adebayo, The Conversation
· Oct 21, 2020 · 11:30 pm
Why foreign countries (including India) are jostling to set up military bases in Africa

Theo Neethling, The Conversation
· Sep 26, 2020 · 11:30 pm
How the East India Company made a celebrity out of a shipwreck survivor in 1738

Jennifer Howes
· Aug 18, 2020 · 09:30 pm
‘They said men aren’t allowed’: This male belly dancer is defying gender stereotypes

Scroll Staff
· Jul 30, 2020 · 05:46 pm
Watch: Tiny, big-eyed ‘bush baby’ yawns in the cutest way

Scroll Staff
· Jul 30, 2020 · 05:11 pm
Watch: Recycled garbage is used to make all the instruments used by this protest band from Congo

Scroll Staff
· Jul 27, 2020 · 11:31 am
After influenza and coronavirus, will obesity be the next pandemic?

Gareth Willmer
· Jul 17, 2020 · 11:30 pm
Why are hundreds of elephants dying mysteriously in Botswana?

Vicky Boult, The Conversation
· Jul 07, 2020 · 09:30 pm
Watch: Can locusts be food? Kenyan scientists are exploring the question as a second wave looms

Scroll Staff
· Jul 03, 2020 · 03:09 pm
In Pakistan, a community descended from East Africans is still fighting prejudice

Zofeen T Ebrahim, Thomson Reuters Foundation
· Jun 25, 2020 · 07:30 pm
Coronavirus crisis could fuel the rise of terrorist organisations in Asia and Africa

Nisha Bellinger, The Conversation Kyle Kattelman, The Conversation
· May 29, 2020 · 09:30 pm
Lockdown reading: Eight novels from Africa offer reflections on disease, death and isolation

Isabel Hofmeyr, The Conversation Aretha Phiri, The Conversation Grace Musila, The Conversation Manosa Nthunya, The Conversation Nedine Moonsamy, The Conversation Sam Naidu, The Conversation Sarah Nuttall, The Conversation Susan Kiguli, The Conversation Tom Odhiambo, The Conversation
· May 07, 2020 · 05:30 pm
Washing hands is key to containing coronavirus – but 2.2 billion people lack access to clean water

Anjal Prakash
· Mar 22, 2020 · 07:30 am
Coronavirus: Portable wash basins in Rwanda ensure bus passengers wash hands before boarding

Scroll Staff
· Mar 12, 2020 · 08:55 am
Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an unidentified ghost species

George Busby, The Conversation
· Feb 14, 2020 · 11:30 pm
Burkina Faso: 35 civilians, most of them women, killed in twin attack

Scroll Staff
· Dec 25, 2019 · 11:33 am
Sounds of resistance: How the radio fuelled the revolution in colonial Angola

Marissa J Moorman, The Conversation
· Dec 05, 2019 · 11:30 pm
Writers’ groups in Africa are disrupting the system and reshaping the region’s literary canon

Doseline Kiguru, The Conversation
· Dec 04, 2019 · 05:30 pm
Liberation hero or monster? Robert Mugabe is as divisive in death as he was in life

Roger Southall, The Conversation
· Sep 06, 2019 · 08:30 pm
Watch: British tourist abuses, attacks and bites Moroccan trader for keeping chickens in cages

Scroll Staff
· Sep 05, 2019 · 02:07 pm