Published on 31/3/2020 on LinkedIn For many people, working from home can be a completely new and unfamiliar experience. For some, it may not have even seemed possible. But thanks to modern technology, here we are: operating our office computers remotely and holding virtual meetings with relative ease. It even makes you wonder why […]
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Originally published on 27/10/2019 on LinkedIn I just finished reading an interesting article by Ashley Eva Millar and Malan Rietveld titled ‘Natural Resources: A blessing or a curse?’ as part of my research for a paper we are writing. The article discusses the apparently negative relationship between a country’s possession of natural resources and its economic success. The theory in a nut-shell
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Photo credit: Reem Gaafar October is Down Syndrome Awareness month, and around this time last year came Sally Phillip’s documentary film A World Without Down’s Syndrome that asked the question: what would the world be like if Down’s syndrome was eliminated? Some countries are well on the way to answer that question: Iceland’s rigorous screening
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Originally published in ElleAfrique Magazine The young lady delicately adjusted her multicoloured tob and dabbed at her multicoloured face, looked down at her notes, and cleared her throat. ‘These days, doctora,’ she chirped at her middle-aged scholarly guest, ‘we bear witness to a certain phenomenon, a phenomenon which is alien to our society.’ ‘Yes,’ the doctor gravely agreed. ‘This
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Published originally in ElleAfrique Magazine Sudan is a melting pot of different nations, cultures and religions. There is no one ‘type’ of Sudanese, and no one can claim that the land belongs to them. Over the generations, there have been Nilotic Africans, Arabs, Turks, Moroccans, Egyptians, Greek, Coptic and others, so that Sudanese today are
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