Evolution revolution: how a Cape Town museum exhibit is rewriting the story of humankind: Picture your typical human evolution museum display. You walk into a dimly lit space with glass boxes on white plinths or roped off areas. There are lots and lots of bones. Maybe a bit of history on how those bones were …
Ukraine war: Putin is rewriting the rules of siege warfare this winter: The bombed ruins of buildings in Mariupol after Russian attacks. Shutterstock The Russian military – under instruction from Vladimir Putin – is rewriting the rules of siege warfare for the 21st century. The classic definition of a siege is: “The process of surrounding …
Book review: rewriting the script on patriarchal violence in South Africa: Academic and author Pumla Dineo Gqola in 2010. COLIN McPHERSON/Corbis via Getty Images Author and academic Pumla Dineo Gqola’s latest book Female Fear Factory is a sibling of her award-winning earlier book Rape: A South African Nightmare. Her feminist scholarship and thought have spotlighted …
India: how some Hindu nationalists are rewriting caste history in the name of decolonisation: With India in the middle of the world’s largest democratic exercise, universities are under the spotlight as never before. Over the past five years – as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, has driven forward …
Homo naledi: The hands that are rewriting human history? – a Africa interest event taking place on 2018-09-07 19:00:00 in United Kingdom Meet Homo naledi – a newly discovered species of extinct hominin from the Rising Star cave system in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. What can the curvature of a finger bone tell us about this …
How South Africa’s young women activists are rewriting the script: Women students have been at the forefront of South African university protests. EPA/Nic Bothma What does it means to celebrate Youth Day in 2016, when many young South African women are little more than second-class citizens? Young women are disproportionately exposed to gender-based violence. Women …