Kenya’s NCBA bank invests in new technology to offer inclusive financial services
“We have a view or a mission to be Africa’s most valued digital platform for financial services, which then means we are seeking to move to not just identify ourselves as a bank but actually identify ourselves as a marketplace upon which financial services are offered, upon which customers can...
Corporate responsibility: Science-funding giant Wellcome steps up the plate to tackle racism
Two years ago, I was about to log off from my work at the research funder Wellcome when I got an e-mail from a senior leader. I remember tensing as I read it. I’d asked that Wellcome add its name to some general anti-racism commitments. The leader didn’t refuse, but...
Evolution of fathers: While fish and birds co-parent, mammal dads only donate sperms and moms do the rest
Lee Gettler is hard to get on the phone, for the very ordinary reason that he’s busy caring for his two young children. Among mammals, though, that makes him extraordinary. “Human fathers engage in really costly forms of care,” says Gettler, an anthropologist at the University of Notre Dame. In...
Radisson Hotel Group expands its clout in African with new hotel in Djibouti
Radisson Hotel Group has entered the Djibouti hospitality industry after signing an agreement to build a new hotel in Djibouti that will be known as Radisson Hotel Djibouti. The deal marks the group’s entry into the country and brings its East African portfolio to 18, with over 2700 rooms in...
Oil and gas: Africa doesn’t have to shy away from China despite its poor record on environment
Throughout the 2021 economic recovery, API’s data have demonstrated the intertwined relationship between the nation’s recovering economy and affordable, reliable energy. Leading economic indicators have continued to rise and along with them, so has oil demand – even as global oil drilling and investment have fallen. According to the International...
‘Just America’ is a narrative of young and educated citizens that continually misreads Blacks, Latinos
There are too many things that Just America can’t talk about for the narrative to get at the hardest problems. It can’t talk about the complex causes of poverty. Structural racism – ongoing disadvantages that Black people suffer as a result of policies and institutions over the centuries – is...
Extreme thirst: Human dietary flexibility best defence against dehydration
There was a reason I asked Julio, my guide, about “hidden” sources of water, such as vines, that Tsimane’ consumed. Dino Nate, my local research assistant and my colleague Kelly Rosinger and I were being taken around the Bolivian Amazon by Julio, one of my Tsimane’ friends. This was after...
How climate evolution in Africa preset human’s extreme thirst for water
We trekked through the Bolivian Amazon, drenched in sweat. Draped head to toe in bug repellent gear, we stayed just ahead of the clouds of mosquitoes as we sidestepped roots, vines and giant ants. My local research assistant Dino Nate, my partner Kelly Rosinger and I were following Julio, one...
Identity crisis: What is considered American history is explicitly defined as White
The term identity politics was born in 1977, when a group of Black lesbian feminists called the Combahee River Collective released a statement defining their work as self-liberation from the racism and sexism of “white male rule”: “The major systems of oppression are interlocking. The synthesis of these oppressions creates...
France and Ireland lead way in Tokyo Olympic rugby repechage tournament
France, Hong Kong, Ireland and Samoa remain in contention in the men’s repechage while Argentina, Hong Kong, France, Kazakhstan and Russia are undefeated in the women’s tournament. France set the pace in both the men’s and women’s Olympic Repechage tournament on a pulsating second day of action at Stade Louis...
