TB: gene editing could add new power to a 100-year-old vaccine: Tuberculosis dates back more than 9,000 years. It is the most infectious bacterial disease and in 2022 10.6 million people fell ill with it. Of these 23% occurred in Africa. The only vaccine against tuberculosis, the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, is more than 100 …
What the 100-year-old Makerere University in Uganda reveals about culture: A student protest outside Makerere University’s Lumumba Hall in October, 2019, keeping true to a long-running tradition. Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images Makerere University, which marks its centenary this year, is well-known as the oldest university in East Africa and as a cradle of political …
The 100-year-old story of South Africa’s first history book in the isiZulu language: Detail from the cover of the book Magema Fuze: The Making of a Kholwa Intellectual. UKZN Press This year marks the centenary of the publication in 1922 of Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona (The Black People and Whence They Came), the first …