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Dr. Lina Finda is making sure African voices are at the center of malaria conversations.
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All the evidence, both ancient and modern, points to a tiny non-African ancestry population between 50 and 60,000 years ago, a few thousand individuals at most
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People tend to overestimate their own talent and underestimate the structural advantages that amplify their success.Their words
we are systematically likely to overestimate our own individual awesomeness, and to underestimate the external power asymmetries that magnify our voices.
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And so one possible explanation for that is just that there's only a handful of generations maybe five over which the natural selection would operate. And so maybe if the selection was 2% a generation you would still only see maybe a 10% compounded effect and there's just not enough time to detect it. But the Bronze Age is not 300 years, it's 3,000 years. It's the power of compound interest and you have enough time to begin to see a strong effect.
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The Bomb: South Africa's Nuclear Weapons ProgrammeTheir words
I had been looking for a book on this topic for a long time, and finally I found the right one in a South African bookshop.
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It only goes to waste if you would find joy and meaning in using it, but you don't because of insecurity or outside voices.
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and then as things hit invisible asymptotes those same loud voices who write viral essays have curiously moved on to other things.
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Yet the production methods still can’t make them below $10 per gram, so they’re still not cheap enough for some “obvious” applications like preventing kids getting malaria in a rainy season.
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12 February 2025
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Aid to African states has been large enough to warp their politics and too small to transform their economies.Their words
As scholars like Nicolas van de Walle have pointed out, aid can also foster an unhealthy dependency—in his coinage, many African states live in a state of “permanent crisis”, where aid is large enough to reshape (and warp) the political economy around it, but not large enough to be fundamentally transform countries’ economies.
21 January 2025
From one piece No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The relative absence of pre-colonial states meant that the newly independent African states were largely European inventions; modern Kenya, for instance, inherits the boundaries of British East Africa, which was created by pulling together the Kikuyu, Luo, Luhya, Kalenjin, and Kamba ethnic groups.
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At independence, South Korea and Taiwan had far higher rates of primary education than most of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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African states formed where it was rational to do so, in places like the Ethiopian highlands where population density was high and the disease burden was relatively low.
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And it doesn’t always take a job at The New York Times or a huge pre-established platform to become one of the voices speaking up, helping to turn that tide.
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David Adeleke's dispatches from the African tech scene introduce me to companies and entrepreneurs who are as fascinating as they are unfamiliar. The sharp analysis and quality-over-quantity approach to newslettering makes it stand out.
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