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What's missing from celebrity activism in Africa? The people

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageBen Affleck championed the piece of legislation requiring companies reporting to the US Securities and Exchange Commission to disclose their use of ‘conflict minerals’ originating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Reuters/Yuri Gripas

Celebrity activism and support for African humanitarian causes – such as the Enough Project,...

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It's time to redraw the world's very unequal knowledge map

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageIf you map the world by scientific research output, things look rather uneven.From www.worldmapper.org

If the world were mapped according to how many scientific research papers each country produced, it would take on a rather bizarre, uneven appearance. The Northern hemisphere would balloon beyond recognition. The global south, including Africa,...

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