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Column • January 23, 2021 02:50

BIDEN: THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY REMAIN THE SAME

The French say “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” or, loosely, “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” This is our take on th

Column • January 22, 2021 02:40

Expelling pastoralists from forests that Kill

My column of 12th September 2016 was entitled “Forests that Kill and Destroy: Rural Banditry in Northern Nigeria.” I was reporting on a seminar organi

A Physician's Diary • January 21, 2021 00:56

COVID-19: To vaccinate or not to vaccinate?

When scientists began searching for a vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in early 2020

Column • January 20, 2021 02:22

51 years in a thousand words

“It is always the season for the old to learn”. Aeschylus,525-456bc, Greek poet Last week, I participated in a virtual conference under the theme, “Ne

Column • January 19, 2021 02:01

How George Floyd floored Donald Trump

Let us pretend that tomorrow’s inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris doesn’t really matter to us. We are not Americans, right? And even though M