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Tackling the persistence and causes of child marriages in Goma, DRC
17 August 2020Forced child marriages are often a lifeline for struggling low-income families in the DRC, but they have serious consequences for young girls.
Should Burundians care about English as a global language?
11 August 2020Arcade Nduwimana discusses linguistic politics and limited fluency of English in Burundi.
Are Goma’s motorcycle taxi drivers heroes or villains?
7 August 2020Samuel Muhindo analyses the role that motorcycle taxi drivers play in securing their clients’ security in the city of Goma.
Savings groups can tackle financial precarity in Goma’s woman-headed households
8 July 2020What are the origins, operations and impact of AVECs on Goma’s low-income women-headed households?
The Burundian drum is at a crossroads between heritage and commodification
25 June 2020This blog argues restrictions on who can engage in drumming in Burundi have caused it to lose its identity as an 'inclusive practice valuable to world heritage'.
The latest significant step in the UK’s development agenda
22 June 2020Economists Professor Susan Newman and Dr Sara Stevano analyse the merger of DFID and the FCO.
Can migrants and refugees be regional residents in the Great Lakes region?
17 June 2020Lisa Damon discusses the lived histories of Barundi who have made Uganda their home over generations.
Protests in Burundi are about more than asserting political pressure
12 June 2020As part of the OU-funded Idjwi Series, Jean-Paul Nizigiyimana explores the various overlapping motivations of protesters who have claimed the streets of Burundi’s capital over the last 30 years.
What Burundi teaches us about political crisis and displacement
3 June 2020Based on research insights shared at the Burundi Research Network Conference in Nairobi in July 2019, Andrea Purdeková invites us to reverse the mainstream relationship between empirics and theory.
COVID-19 and what the digital divide means for people’s livelihoods in Kenya
17 April 2020Measures to control the current pandemic impact more heavily on everyone whose access to internet and digital technologies is limited. But in some countries, the impact can be particularly devastating, says Anna Colom.
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