Power belongs to the people, court tells Kenya president as it trashes bid to amend constitution clandestinely
The sanctity of the Kenyan constitution was on trial when the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier verdict of the High Court, which consequently ended President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga’s quest to amend the constitution to expand executive in the name of national reconciliation and healing. In...
Decolonising science: Researchers out to demystify scientific data through African languages
There’s no original isiZulu word for dinosaur. Germs are called amagciwane, but there are no separate words for viruses or bacteria. A quark is ikhwakhi (pronounced kwa–ki); there is no term for red shift. And researchers and science communicators using the language, which is spoken by more than 14 million...
