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Advice mattered in pre-colonial times: 19th century Bambara king in consultation with elders.

Governance

In West Africa, authoritarian attitudes go back to colonial rule

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Gender equality

Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda

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by Stella Tushabe

Genocide aftermath

Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds

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by Jeffrey Moyo
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The Maasai see their land and culture threatened by the Tanzanian government’s moves against them.

Indigenous rights

How Tanzania flouts the rights of the Maasai

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by Kizito Makoye

Malawi

The hard lot of old people

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by Benson Kunchezera
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Lapsed immunisation

“There is a lot of genocidal rhetoric”

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by Chris Whitman
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Democracy

The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister

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by Ridwanul Hoque
Black and white schoolchildren in a school bus in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1973.

Literature

How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?

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by Dagmar Wolf
Protests for women’s rights in Bogotá, Colombia, during the International Women’s Day in March.

Women’s rights

Addressing gender-based violence in Colombia

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by Giovanni Puglisi
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