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Enlarge / The first printout of the human genome to be presented as a series of books, displayed in the ‘Medicine Now’ room at the Wellcome Collection, London. (credit: Russ London at English Wikipedia) The human genome sequence, first published in 2001, has some important information missing. The latest version of it, called GRCh38, has […]
Vivian Nwakah was told she wouldn’t survive in Nigeria, and she started to believe it. While her glistening dark skin makes her look just like most others in the capital city of Lagos, her American accent means she’s not like everyone else; and all of her friends who arrived around the same time as she […]
While on a four-day trip to promote a relationship reset between his country and Africa, French President Emmanuel Macron lost his temper when discussing human trafficking. Macron’s whistlestop tour of African nations will see him meet leaders in former French colonies Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast [Cote d’Ivoire], as well as Ghana. The visit […]
Don’t invite a star chef to meet up at the South African equivalent of Starbucks. She’ll promptly lead you somewhere quieter, and far cooler. At least that was my experience with Nompumelelo Mqwebu, whose list of accomplishments is such that it’s hard to know where to begin. A frequent guest on radio and TV programs; […]
In 1988 the Sunday paper Martin Welz was working for refused to run a story on an attorney who’d used his status as a donor to the apartheid-era governing party to cover up a scheme to profit from the sale of state housing for the mentally handicapped. Determined to expose the truth, Welz offered the […]
People of African descent face racial discrimination, constant racial profiling, and other kinds of intolerance in Germany, a UN working group said in a statement, adding that their struggle remains largely “invisible” to the wider community. “Although the [German] constitution guarantees equality, bans racial discrimination and enshrines the inviolability of human dignity, these principles are […]
