Historians note a shift from Eurocentric conceptualizations of science during the late nineteenth century. Spurred by a burgeoning print culture and widespread dissemination of news regarding ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a relatively rare situation in which the entire globe is grappling with the same crisis at the same time, albeit with widely varying approaches, resource levels, ...

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to significantly expand scientists' understanding of human genetic diversity. This ...

Africa's health future hinges on its ability to finance and commercialize its own medical innovations, rather than rely on increasingly uncertain international funding, African science leaders have ...

An continent-wide framework is necessary, argues an advisor to the New Partnership for Africa's Development To succeed in its aspirations of regional and global economic integration, Africa must ...

The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift, the African continent is being pulled apart by forces deep below the ...

The African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI), launched in 2004 by the U.S. National Academies and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a 10-year effort to strengthen the ...

A continent that holds 624 million hectares of forest, 15.6% of global forest cover and supports biodiversity, livelihoods ...

South Africa’s President joined dignitaries, scientists, a large media contingent and members of the local community in the small town of Carnarvon today to celebrate South Africa’s successful bid to ...

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