BACKGROUND The collaboration of scientists between the developed and the developing world is an opportunity to reverse the 'brain drain' and to enable 'brain circulation'. OBJECTIVE Attracting alumni from the Diaspora to strengthen the development of talented scientists will strengthen research in Africa. DESIGN In 2010, the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand,...

Contemporary life writings of Iranian diaspora are often censured for promoting a universalizing, dehumanizing and hegemonic image the nation. The common misgiving is that narratives project women as archetypal victims their male counterparts essentially powerful subjects. present study aims at problematizing this assumption by arguing Ramita Navai’s City Lies (2014) portrays an anti-essentiali...

The African Diaspora in the Western Hemisphere represents one of the largest forced migrations in history and had a profound impact on genetic diversity in modern populations. To date, the fine-scale population structure of descendants of the African Diaspora remains largely uncharacterized. Here we present genetic variation from deeply sequenced genomes of 642 individuals from North and South ...

Academic research is driven by several factors causing different disciplines to act as “sources” or “sinks” of knowledge. However, how the flow of authors’ research interests – a proxy of human knowledge – evolved across time is still poorly understood. Here, we build a comprehensive map of such flows across one century, revealing fundamental periods in the raise of interest in areas of human k...

BACKGROUND There is a paucity of literature describing traditional health practices and beliefs of African women. The purpose of this study was to undertake a systematic review of the use of traditional medicine (TM) to address maternal and reproductive health complaints and wellbeing by African women in Africa and the diaspora. METHOD A literature search of published articles, grey literatur...

NO AREA OF PUBLIC CONSCIENCE ILLUST"TES THE ANXIOUS MEETING of state policy and cultural mythology more than illegal immigration. As once-con#dent national polities in Europe and the United States su$er a series of economic shocks, a backlash has gathered momentum, targeting the imported labor that in many ways symbolizes the so% core of the old regimes’ economic foundations. A variety of extre...

Purpose – In MIP, Vol. 25 No. 1, Mike Saren argued that academic marketers need to move beyond our “traditional managerial and business confines”. This paper aims to suggest that the discipline is already on the move in that direction, and that social marketing is in the vanguard. Design/methodology/approach – Commissioned as a viewpoint, with permission to “think aloud”. Findings – The paper s...

There are many rare and far flung retinal diseases which few of us will ever see in the oYce. One of these is Oguchi’s disease, a night blinding disorder in which patients can recover their sensitivity to dim light over several hours in darkness, only to lose it to a brief light exposure that hardly bleaches any visual pigment. The report in this issue by Yamamoto et al (p 000) shows that the S...