by Talking Humanities | Mar 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Image: White rhino in Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa © Keith Somerville Professor Keith Somerville applauds South Africa’s war against rhino poachers, but cautions against complacency. The number of rhinos poached in South Africa in 2017...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 16, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Publications
How did Zimbabwe get here? What is going on? What is likely to happen? The short answer is a combination of short-term factors, and long-term trends, economic structural pressures, political policy choices, and personal power agenda. Read this extract from Robert...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 23, 2017 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
After a recent visit to universities in his home country leading South African intellectual Professor Xolela Mangcu, asks ‘How do we decolonise the curriculum when our young have created their own version of history – when there is no facticity?’ Earlier...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 21, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law
Image: White rhino in Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa South Africa’s long-awaited statistical report on rhino poaching reveal a 10.3 per cent dip in the numbers illegally killed in 2016 compared to the previous year. However, the picture is...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 6, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law
Image: © Elephants without Borders, ©bush24, ©Keith Somerville Just over a year ago, stealing the title from Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, Professor Keith Somerville wrote a report entitled No longer at ease: clouds on the horizon for Botswana’s conservation...
