By Bolaji Ogunfemi A negligent discharge occurs when a weapon is fired unintentionally because the person controlling it fails to exercise the care demanded by its destructive capacity. Harm may not have been the objective. That does not make what happened an innocent accident. Someone had control of the weapon. Someone knew, or ought toContinue reading “A Negligent Discharge: How an Unfounded Foreign-Aid Claim Endangered Mozambique’s HIV Response”
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Climate Resilience in Africa: Six Priorities for an Era of Rising Risk and Falling Aid
By Bolaji Ogunfemi Between 2005 and 2024, climate-related disasters disrupted the schooling of 130 million children in Eastern and Southern Africa and caused US$1.3 billion in direct damage to education infrastructure. UNICEF and Dalberg put the resulting loss in lifetime earnings at up to US$140 billion, rising towards US$380 billion by 2050 if nothing changes.Continue reading “Climate Resilience in Africa: Six Priorities for an Era of Rising Risk and Falling Aid”
Sociology and its imperatives for human development in Africa
By Bolaji Ogunfemi A great many people will agree that the individual is to society what people are to human development. Society comprises clusters of individuals while human development is positive change in the lives of people. Development academics, practitioners, and researchers have roundly highlighted human capital as crucial to a country’s journey on theContinue reading “Sociology and its imperatives for human development in Africa”
Strategies for sustainable cities in Africa
The Sustainable Development Goals have increased conversations around how cities and towns can be planned and organised to fulfil their roles as drivers of sustainable development. Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable is the focus of goal seven. This topic is of crucial importance to Africa’s development efforts for some reasonsContinue reading “Strategies for sustainable cities in Africa”
Sub-Saharan Africa and achieving the SDG target for drinking water
Achieving universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030 is a target of the Sustainable Development Goals. Africa has been identified as being at risk of severe water scarcity. Nearly 400 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are denied even a basic drinking water supply. One of the main usesContinue reading “Sub-Saharan Africa and achieving the SDG target for drinking water”
Africa and measuring the sustainable development goals
Many African countries lack the capabilities to plan, manage and do the research required for successful formulation, implementation and evaluation of policy. Data from the continent is generally perceived as inaccurate, unreliable, untimely or inexistent. The reasons behind this are numerous. While statistics bureau exists in most countries, they are sometimes insufficiently funded. This conditionContinue reading “Africa and measuring the sustainable development goals”
Biomedical engineers from across Africa are collaborating to build medical devices
Biomedical engineering can save lives. It draws on and integrates knowledge from disciplines like engineering, computer science, biomedical sciences, and public health as well as clinical practice. This knowledge is combined to improve health—often through the design of medical devices for diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. Most of Africa’s medical equipment is imported. “Equipment graveyards” becomeContinue reading “Biomedical engineers from across Africa are collaborating to build medical devices”
Africa’s opportunity and reasons for a reset
At a time of great uncertainty in world affairs, Africa serves its interests best by putting its house in order. That process begins by identifying and addressing the region’s major challenges as well as setting clear, limited and actionable policy priorities. Africa has never been short of plans or programmes of actions. From the LagosContinue reading “Africa’s opportunity and reasons for a reset”
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