Africa

Obaro Ikime, 1936-2023: Scholar of Nigerian and African Identity
Insights
May 18, 2023

Obaro Ikime, 1936-2023: Scholar of Nigerian and African Identity

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Talking With Paschal Anosike About African Development and His Award-Winning Book
International Debate
April 28, 2023

Talking With Paschal Anosike About African Development and His Award-Winning Book

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Data Drawn From Local Communities Ought to Be Shared With Local Communities 
Ethics
February 22, 2023

Data Drawn From Local Communities Ought to Be Shared With Local Communities 

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Decent Gig Work in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Business and Management INK
August 24, 2022

Decent Gig Work in Sub-Saharan Africa?

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We’re Seeing a Link Between Academic Freedom and Democracy in Africa

We’re Seeing a Link Between Academic Freedom and Democracy in Africa

There’s a strong correlation between academic freedom and other elements of democracy. But cause and effect are not so clear. The African experience makes the relationship clearer because simultaneously, and in a relatively short time, the whole continent moved from one-party to multiparty systems.

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Understanding Internationalisation of Informal African Firms Through A Network Perspective

Understanding Internationalisation of Informal African Firms Through A Network Perspective

The work of Christopher Boafo, Richard Afriyie Owusu and Karine Guiderdoni-Jourdain offers an understanding of the internationalization of informal smaller firms in two major enterprise clusters in a sub-Saharan African economy through a network perspective.

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Bridging the Divide Between Academics and Movements

Bridging the Divide Between Academics and Movements

For academic researchers working with social movements and activist groups can present unique challenges. Finding ways to work effectively together, whilst acknowledging differences in power and objectives, is often problematic. Drawing on perspectives from different social movements and academia, Diana Mitlin, Jhono Bennett, Philipp Horn, Sophie King, Jack Makau and George Masimba Nyama present insights from the Slum/Shack Dwellers International movement on how academics can successfully co-produce useful knowledge for social movements.

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Can Africa’s Science Academies Drive Sustainable Development

Can Africa’s Science Academies Drive Sustainable Development

Most countries in Africa are lagging behind development goal suggested by the United Nations. Science academies have a crucial role to play in developing ways for scientists to help these nations achieve development goals more effectively.

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Toward a Critical Citizenship Psychology: Honoring Catriona Macleod

Toward a Critical Citizenship Psychology: Honoring Catriona Macleod

Catriona Macleod received the 2017 Psychology and Social Change Award from her home institution, Rhodes University, late last year in large part for recognizing and then critiquing the psychology of Africa.

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African Academics Prey to (Academic Journal) Predators

African Academics Prey to (Academic Journal) Predators

In the past few years there has been an insidious rise in predatory journals and publishers, notes Adele Thomas, and African academics have not been immune to their predation.

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In South Africa, OA is a Necessity, Not a Nicety

In South Africa, OA is a Necessity, Not a Nicety

Individual academics and institutions have driven the open access process in South Africa. This bottom-up approach has its merits, argue John Butler-Adam, Susan Veldsman and Ina Smith, but a push from the top is needed to ensure that the nation stays on track.

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Ranking African Universities Fraught and Futile

Ranking African Universities Fraught and Futile

The director of directs the International Network for Higher Education in Africa argues that a nascent effort to rank the continent’s institutions of higher education ‘seems to me to be doomed from the start.’

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