- Jun 26, 2023
- 10 min
PETRUS VAALBOOI: SAN “BUSHMAN” ELDER AND FORMER CHAIRPERSON OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SAN COUNCIL
The Hoodia plant (Hoodia gordonii) is a type of desert cactus, which was traditionally used by the indigenous Khomani San people of...
- Jun 12, 2023
- 11 min
SADA MIRE AND SOMALILAND’S ARCHEOLOGICAL HERITAGE
Curtis Abraham There are two overwhelming, and ironically contrasting, images Westerners (“The Global North”) have of the Horn of Africa:...
- May 11, 2023
- 2 min
ORIGIN AFRICA: Safaris Into Deep Time
"Jonathan Kingdon’s meticulous observation of wildlife over the course of his lifetime has answered many profound questions about how...
- May 7, 2023
- 14 min
INTERVIEW WITH JEFFREY D. SACHS
FROM THE ARCHIVES Curtis Abraham In the 2013 Human Development Report, The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World, Michael...
- May 1, 2023
- 2 min
THE BOOK OF TURTLES
Sy Montgomery (Author) and Matt Patterson (Illustrator) HarperCollins (05/02/2023) From National Book Award finalist and New York Times...
- Apr 24, 2023
- 10 min
NATURE CONSERVATION AND ARMED CONFLICT IN AFRICA
Curtis Abraham The changing nature of armed conflict in Africa and its effects on the continent’s wildlife and their habitats has...