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International AIDS and Economics Network Special Issue

The International AIDS Economics Network (IAEN) has collaborated with the African Journal of AIDS Research to bring you a special issue titled, “A sustainable AIDS response: results in the era of shrinking donor funding”.  Guest Edited...

Special Issue Announcement ahead of PAOC 2020

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

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...