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New dictionary provides nuanced insights into the language of African politics

Africa Nic Cheeseman, Eloise Bertrand & Saeed Husaini - 19 Mar 2019

A dictionary of African politics reveals the witty and insightful political terminology that people in different African countries use.

Ma Africa leads the way

Article Esther Ngumbi - 14 Dec 2018

Graça Machel is the example of someone reaching out to other women and lifting them up

Kenya bids farewell to ‘green Nobel’ Maathai

Article Otto Bakano - 8 Oct 2011

Hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai at a park in central Nairobi.

Seeds of ‘the acacia’ take root

Article Jody Clarke - 30 Sep 2011

Nobel-winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai's legacy was to provide shelter for the withering Earth.

Maathai ‘belongs in the league of Mandela’

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 26 Sep 2011

South Africans paid tribute on Monday to late Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Muta Maathai, who died in a Nairobi hospital on Monday.

Nobel laureate Maathai dies in hospital

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 26 Sep 2011

Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai has died in hospital where she was undergoing treatment for cancer.

Breaking South Sudan’s vicious cycle

Article Staff Reporter - 12 Aug 2011

Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai says South Sudan's stability is threatened by ongoing conflict and the legacy of decades of civil war.

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