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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
06 October 2020
This thematic map, based on the subnational human development index data for African countries for the years 2000 and 2018, makes clear that almost all of Africa’s 546 regions showed improved living conditions in 2018. The few exceptions are regions in Libya and Somalia, and in the new country South Sudan, which deteriorated between 2010 and 2018. The back side of the map shows the three basic indices: health, education and standard of living.
06 October 2020
The 2020 Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture will be given by Jonathan Jansen, Distinguished Professor of Education at Stellenbosch University and President of the Academy of Science of South Africa. The late Stephen Ellis' work provides a solid foundation of historical scholarship from which it is possible to understand the pandemic of corruption within the post-apartheid South African government. Nowhere is this history more starkly reflected than in the massively unequal education impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, which will have devastating consequences for generations to come. The lecture will take place on 26 November, online!
01 October 2020
On the occasion of the Africa 2020 year, the ASCL has created Infosheets about the countries that became independent in 1960. Of the seventeen colonies gaining independence in that year, Nigeria was the sixteenth one: on October 1. Read about Nigeria's political, demographic, socio-economic and agricultural developments in the past 60 years. Also find out about Nigeria's leaders of independence in the ASCL web dossier!