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Unlocking dispersal mysteries of SA’s juvenile Secretarybirds

A golden Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius sits atop the national emblem of South Africa with its wings spread wide below the shining sun. Given this prestigious location one would think that the observed declines in this...

International Scientists Collaborate

On a month-long voyage in 2015 an international team of scientists from Angola, Namibia, Norway, South Africa, Spain, the United States of America and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) explored...

Consensus as Democracy in Africa

Some philosophers on the African continent and beyond are convinced that consensus, as a polity, represents the best chance for Africa to fully democratise. In Consensus as Democracy in Africa, Bernard Matolino challenges the basic assumptions...

Unshared Identity – a new book in the African Humanities Series

Babajide Ololajulo, wanted to contribute to scholarship about Africa, written by Africans. His book, “Unshared Identity: Posthumous Paternity in a Contemporary Yoruba community” forms part of the African Humanities Series which covers topics in African...

Call for Papers - Drought Special Issue

General call to submit a manuscript for the Drought Special Issue of the African Journal of Range and Forage Science.   Guest Editors: Justin du Toit, William Bond, Johan Malherbe   The African Journal of Range & Forage Science...