Africa

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Cambridge researchers have long worked with African colleagues on issues that matter not just to the continent but to the world.

Apollo Milton Obote, future President of Uganda, playing Julius Caesar at Makerere University in 1948, Credit: Copyright: The University of Makerere Archives

Shakespeare goes to East Africa

25 Mar 2016

On the eve of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Dr Edward Wilson-Lee explores the remarkable ways in which the works of England’s...

Vice-Chancellor calls for increased collaboration with Africa

10 Mar 2016

Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) Global Gathering 2016, an international conference focused on the development of...

Opinion: Disbelief and division at the ICC: inside the Laurent Gbagbo trial

16 Feb 2016

Sophie Rosenberg (Department of Politics and International Studies) discusses the International Criminal Court's trial of Laurent Gbagbo, former...

Actin cables in Drosophila nurse cells during late-oogenesis. At this stage, nurse cells die and extrude their cytoplasm into the developing oocyte.

Opinion: How fruit flies can help keep African scientists at home

15 Feb 2016

Timothy Weil (Department of Zoology) and Silvia Muñoz-Descalzo (University of Bath) discuss the project that aims to make the fruit fly a model...

Opinion: Why Kagame’s bid to serve a third term makes sense for Rwanda

27 Jan 2016

Thomas Stubbs (Centre for Business Research) discusses why, when it comes to Rwanda, the West may not know best.

Researchers at the UNIMAK Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, Credit: Ian Goodfellow

Ebola legacy lab will improve Sierra Leone’s resilience to future epidemics

22 Jan 2016

Samples from the recently confirmed case of Ebola in Sierra Leone have been analysed at a new infectious diseases laboratory in the country, set up...

Left: Skull of a man found lying prone in the lagoons sediments. The skull has multiple lesions consistent with wounds from a blunt implement. Right: The skull in situ.

Evidence of a prehistoric massacre extends the history of warfare

20 Jan 2016

Skeletal remains of a group of foragers massacred around 10,000 years ago on the shores of a lagoon is unique evidence of a violent encounter between...

Skull of a man with multiple lesions on the side, probably caused by a club.

Opinion: Finding a hunter-gatherer massacre scene that may change history of human warfare

19 Jan 2016

Marta Mirazon Lahr (Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies) discusses the discovery, made by her and her team, of the oldest known case of...