NISC News
Special Issue Announcement ahead of PAOC 2020
29 August 2019 •
Announcements & Notices
Leading up to the Pan-African Ornithological Congress 2020, Ostrich Journal of African Ornithology will be publishing a special issue titled, “Urban Birds – Ornithology of Urban Environments”.
The issue welcomes Guest Editor, Dr Petra Sumasgutner (L’Oréal...
Unlocking dispersal mysteries of SA’s juvenile Secretarybirds
18 July 2019 •
Announcements & Notices
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
14 May 2019 •
Announcements & Notices
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
10 April 2019 •
Company news
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
4 April 2019 •
Announcements & Notices
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...