Africa
Ten Cities: Viewing Africa from the dancefloor
The Goethe Institute in Kenya along with the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at the University of Naples have embarked on a project called Ten Cities. The idea? To look through the developing world and confront their club culture.
By Samuel Breen | Music | Wednesday, 13 March 2013 at 2:12 pm
The most under-reported humanitarian disasters of 2012
Every year, humanitarian disasters take a devastating toll on the lives and futures of millions of children around the world, and 2012 was no exception. The numbers of children affected are staggering, so much that it is hard to comprehend why so many of these disasters rarely make the headlines.
By David Bull | Notebook | Tuesday, 8 January 2013 at 2:28 pm
‘Call Me Kuchu’: The continuing battle against homophobia in Uganda
When we first started filming ‘Call Me Kuchu’, our documentary about the first openly gay man in Uganda, David Kato, we were immediately struck by the apparent disconnect between our experiences in Uganda and what we were seeing in international media reports.
By Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall | Arts, Film | Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 3:12 pm
Adopting in Tanzania: Flip your life upside-down in three easy steps
Five years ago this month, adventure beckoned and I disappeared into the sunset on a twelve-month sojourn to teach in Tanzania. I had had no plans to move to Africa, and in fact was seeking work in Peru, so imagine my surprise when I read the job advert in the TES and the realisation of my forthcoming move struck me.
By Jane Rose | Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 4 September 2012 at 12:18 pm
Global Hunger Event should seek to make malnutrition history
Following years of civil war progress has been made in securing peace and stability. Infant and maternal mortality have fallen significantly and access to primary education is greatly improved. However, despite these advances it was shocking to learn that Burundi has one of the highest levels of child malnutrition in the world.
By Ivan Lewis MP | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 10 August 2012 at 12:00 am
The crucial role of religious leaders in the HIV response
The key idea of INERELA was to tap into the unique role and authority that religious leaders play in providing moral and ethical guidance within communities, using that to contribute in a productive way to the HIV response; their public opinions can influence entire nations.
By Winnie Ssanyu Sseruma | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 1:00 am
Charles Taylor at The Hague, David Lawley-Wakelin and Tony Blair’s ‘moral decline and fall’
Last week, Charles Taylor, the first former head of state to be convicted by an international tribunal since the judgement of high-level Nazis in Nuremberg, received a long-overdue conviction at the Hague for ‘aiding and abetting, as well as planning, some of the most heinous and brutal crimes recorded in human history.’
By Emanuel Stoakes | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 6 June 2012 at 10:00 am
Refugees and scarce resources: A humanitarian crisis in West Africa
Drought in the Sahel region of West Africa is fast becoming a humanitarian crisis; Henry Makiwa travels to Burkina Faso to see how the lack of rain and an influx of refugees have affected the country.
By Henry Makiwa | Notebook, The Foreign Desk | Tuesday, 15 May 2012 at 3:55 am
Victor Buhler tells us why African football is “beautiful”
Award winning film-maker Victor Buhler talks to Christian Adofo about his new film, “The Beautiful Game”, football in Africa and his hopes for the continent’s future.
By Christian Adofo | Film, Football, Notebook | Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 12:07 pm
We have to extend the vaccine revolution to every child in every corner of our world
For too long, there has been an unwritten rule that it can take 15 years or more before children in the poorest nations benefit from new life-saving vaccines in use in rich countries. It’s a tragic time-lag that has cost many millions of lives.
But national celebrations in Ghana this week show how this shameful gap [...]
By Seth Berkley | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 26 April 2012 at 12:00 am
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