South African movie dives into the complexity of poaching: Still from the film Sons of the Sea. Indigenous Film Distribution What does salvation look like? When a person lacks options, this may not be a straightforward judgement to make. Is salvation an unearned windfall, or doing what’s legal? The award-winning South African film Sons of …
Nigerian museums must tell stories of slavery with more complexity and nuance: The Gidan Makama national museum in Kano, Nigeria. Aminu Abubakar/AFP/Getty In many parts of the world, museums are considering how to present history through different lenses, rather than just representing colonial and imperialistic views of certain events, countries or whole continents. The current …
What complexity theory can teach leaders of South African universities today: Various crises have revealed that leaders’ decision-making roles have become more intense. shutterstock Universities are complex, dynamic organisations which must adapt in ways that aren’t always planned or predicted. For some university leaders, such challenges present an opportunity to lead for great change within …
Major new study unveils complexity and vast diversity of Africa’s genetic variation: GettyImages Africa is the cradle of humankind. All humans are descendants from this common pool of ancestors. Africa and its multitude of ethnolinguistic groups are therefore fundamental to learning more about humankind and our origins. A human genome refers to the complete set …
Navigating Complexity – a Africa interest event taking place on 2019-10-31 08:30:00 in Ireland There is a growing awareness that the organisations we work in are more like unpredictable and interconnected ecosystems than predictable machines. In these complex ecosystems, most of our models and “best practices” are no longer effective and managers and decision makers …
Exploring The Complexity of Cultural Identity Through “The Music of Strangers” – a Culture interest event taking place on 2019-01-27 14:00:00 in United States The 2016 documentary film, "The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble" offers an engaging method to learn about the complex nature of cultural identity and cultural stressors/supports …
Erasing complexity, submitting a summit talk, and more OpenStack news: Are you interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. OpenStack around the web From news sites to developer blogs, there’s a lot being written about OpenStack …
Archaeology Lecture Series – Middle Woodland Complexity and Culture Change in Northwest Florida from a Domestic Perspective – a Culture interest event taking place on 2016-03-17 19:00:00 in United States Throughout the Eastern U.S., the Middle Woodland was a period of increased cultural complexity. This complexity is best identified in the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee River region …