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African sci-fi: body hopping, artificial wombs and angry ghosts in a future Botswana

African sci-fi: body hopping, artificial wombs and angry ghosts in a future Botswana: Tlotlo Tsamaase has already proved her talent for African science fiction. Her masterly short stories, one previously shortlisted for the Caine Prize, are helping put Botswana on the literary map. Her debut novel, Womb City, interweaves the mythological and digital expanses of …

Artificial wombs could someday be a reality – here’s how they may change our notions of parenthood

Artificial wombs could someday be a reality – here’s how they may change our notions of parenthood: Artificial womb technology could eventually make it possible to grow a foetus from conception to "birth" wholly outside the human body. Marko Aliaksandr/ Shutterstock Our reproductive lives are considerably different from those of our ancestors, thanks in part …