On 4 April Rose Boswell (Nelson Mandela University) will present the 'Blue Values Journey', a project that seeks to bring academia, the private sector and government together to advance the resilience of coastal communities in times of climate change and coastal development. Focus is on South Africa, Namibia, Kenya and Seychelles.
The Quagga was literally shot out of existence as a species in the second half of the 19th century, with the last attested reports of Quagga in the wild dated to 1878 in South Africa. In a new ASCL Working Paper Jan-Bart Gewald explores the possible connection between the rise of diamond mining in South Africa and the passing of the quagga.
The Jury of the Africa Thesis Award is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2023 Award is Rachel Dubale, graduate from the Research Master African Studies at Leiden University, with her thesis “They think we can eat the condominium”. Chronicles of Economic, Social and Political Practices in Addis Ababa’s Condominiums.
The effects of air pollution are broadly studied in the ‘global north’. Much less is known about the status and impact of air pollution in developing countries, particularly on the African continent. The objective of this new working paper is to review the existing academic and grey literature on the use of satellite-based air quality data.