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Realizing the importance of quality sleep

COMMENT | Michael Jjingo | Are you having enough quality sleep? Deep and quality sleep is crucial for physical renewal, hormonal regulation, and growth. Several biological processes happen during sleep: The brain stores new information and gets rid of toxic waste. Nerve cells communicate and reorganize, which supports healthy brain function. The …

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Is Capitalism really the cause of global inequality?

Western observers have treated inequality as a domestic issue but this framing often overlooks the plight of hundreds of millions of impoverished people around the world COMMENT | KENNETH ROGOFF | In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate …

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When medicines don’t work

Eliminating neglected tropical diseases will reduce drug resistance – a win for all COMMENT | FRANCISCA MUTAPI | A major health challenge of our time is when drugs no longer work to treat infections. This happens when the agents that cause infections – they may be bacteria, viruses or fungi – …

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Why bother voting?

SPECIAL REPORT | MOKY MAKURA – BIRD AGENCY | Years ago, I was invited to speak to a group of young schoolgirls from a township in Johannesburg. A little way into the talk, I realised that they weren’t terribly engaged. It took me a moment to understand why. English wasn’t …

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Remembering Dr Matthew Lukwiya and our other health worker heroes

There is urgent need to protect Ugandan health care workers in their line of duty COMMENT | DR AMBROSE OTAU TALISUNA  & DR DEOGRATIAS SEKIMPI |  Infectious disease epidemics and pandemics (worldwide epidemic) continue to threaten the health of populations in Uganda and worldwide. In the past century, there have been four …

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Rethinking Foreign Funding for Africa

African countries’ large and growing debt burdens have become a major obstacle to poverty reduction COMMENT | KENNETH ROGOFF | How long can the complacent West continue to ignore Africa’s sovereign-debt crisis? As African countries grapple with unsustainable debt burdens, restructuring negotiations with Western governments and multilateral institutions such as …

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The geopolitics of EACOP, and why it matters

The entire African continent is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. That figure is far lower when coal-intensive South Africa, the biggest carbon emitter in Africa, is excluded. COMMENT | Twinamatsiko Mwesigye | African countries started gaining independence in the 1950s. By 1980, almost all of them except …

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Africa’s food security depends on adaptive crops

Africans are increasingly reliant on the small number of staple crops that dominate global agriculture, despite the nutritional and environmental benefits of indigenous crops such as millet, sorghum and  teff, COMMENT | AGNES KALIBATA & FOWLER | Africa’s food systems are facing myriad challenges, from climate shocks and low productivity …

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