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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.

Camel farming

Farming the 'long-necked thing’: moving from cows to camels

23 Sep 2013

A move from cattle herding to camel keeping among Kenyan farmers is more than an economic transition, it represents a fundamental shift in age-old...

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Reporting from Zimbabwe: why the sanctions must be lifted

24 Aug 2013

The Zimbabwean elections will quickly drop off the international news agenda. In her third and final report, anthropology student Rowan Jones ponders...

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Karnu Warrior

Until lions write their own history…

12 Jul 2013

An exhibition of contemporary textile art by Deanna Tyson has opened at the Alison Richard Building in response to the unique materials held there...

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Forest region of South West Cameroon

Was the dawn of man among trees in the cradle of disease?

04 Jul 2013

A student-led conference to be webcast live will ask, in light of recent research, whether the story of human origin is radically different from...

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Plastic hair comb, 21st century, bought in Nigeria

Origins of the Afro Comb: 6,000 years of culture, politics and identity

02 Jul 2013

The 6,000-year history of the Afro Comb, its extraordinary impact on cultures worldwide, and community stories relating to hair today are being...

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Stone tools used by Homo sapiens

Beachcombing for early humans in Africa

31 May 2013

From the earliest modern humans to the present day, our species has evolved dramatically in both biological and behavioural terms. What forces...

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Summer school participant

On the fly: African summer school on insect neuroscience

26 Apr 2013

A programme created by Cambridge researchers is teaching African scientists how insects can be powerful yet inexpensive model systems in...

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Ghana

Harnessing the power of research to benefit developing countries

25 Apr 2013

CEO of GAVI Alliance to give Wellcome Trust-Cambridge Centre for Global Health Research inaugural lecture

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Dr Sabina Wachira, a THRiVE postdoctoral fellow from icipe in Kenya, who visited her Cambridge mentor (Dr David Spring of the Department of Chemistry)'s lab in 2012

Cambridge named one of Wellcome Trust’s Centres for Global Health Research

11 Feb 2013

Centre will support researchers working in public health and tropical medicine.

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Diagram showing spread of humans from Africa.

Scientists use genetics and climate reconstructions to track the global spread of modern humans out of Africa

17 Sep 2012

Research indicates the out-of-Africa spread of humans was dictated by the appearance of favourable climatic windows.

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Carnegie Alborada Grants

Grants take Cambridge in Africa Programme to next level

03 Aug 2012

The University of Cambridge's wide-ranging and long-term strategy of engagement with African higher education institutions moved into its next phase...

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Artwork by Nondumiso Hlwele

Activist art reflects fight for rights of African AIDS sufferers

22 Jun 2012

A new exhibition launching at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology explores the psychology and politics of living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa...

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