The Conversation Africa6 hours agoWorld’s biggest bat colony gathers in Zambia every year: we used artificial intelligence to count themtheconversation.com - Dina Dechmann and Benjamin Koger and Roland KaysEverybody who visits Kasanka National Park in Zambia during “bat season” agrees that the evening emergence of African straw-coloured fruit bats from …
The Conversation Africa7 hours agoEnvironmental disasters and climate change force people to cross borders, but they're not recognised as refugees – they should betheconversation.com - Cristiano d'OrsiAs our planet warms, we’re experiencing more frequent and severe weather events, rising sea levels, prolonged droughts and altered ecosystems. These …
The Conversation Africa7 hours agoThe family home in South African townships is contested – why occupation, inheritance and history are clashing with lawstheconversation.com - Maxim BoltDuring apartheid, black South Africans could not own land – and therefore their homes – in what were classified as “white” cities. In racially …
The Conversation Africa8 hours agoQueer film in Africa is rising – even in countries with the harshest anti-LGBTIQ+ lawstheconversation.com - Gibson NcubeA recent book, Queer Bodies in African Films, studies the growing LGBTIQ+ output from film-makers around the continent, from Morocco to South Africa. …
The Conversation Africa13 hours agoDécès de Salif Keïta : un pan de l'histoire du football africain s'en est allétheconversation.com - Paul DietschyL'ancien footballeur malien Salif Këita alias Domingo, décédé le 2 septembre à Bamako, a incarné un moment de l’histoire du football africain et de …
The Conversation Africa1 day agoGiant sea lizards: fossils in Morocco reveal the astounding diversity of marine life 66 million years ago, just before the asteroid hittheconversation.com - Nicholas R. LongrichSixty-six million years ago, the Cretaceous period ended. Dinosaurs disappeared, along with around 90% of all species on Earth. The patterns and …
