6 ways AI can partner with us in creative inquiry, inspired by media theorist Marshall McLuhan

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Todays large language models (LLMs) process information across disciplines at unprecedented speed and are challenging higher education to rethink teaching, learning and disciplinary structures. As AI tools disrupt...

Ngũgi wa Thiong’o and the African literary revolution

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The passing of celebrated Kenyan writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo on 28 May 2025 marks the end of a remarkable period in African literary history the fabulous decades in the second half of the 20th century when African...

5 great reads by South African writers from 30 years of real-life stories

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Across three decades of democracy, South Africa has like many places undergoing complex and uneven social change seen an outpouring of remarkable nonfiction. The Interpreters is a new book that collects the work of 37...

Khartoum before the war: the public spaces that held the city together

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What makes a public space truly public? In Khartoum, before the current conflict engulfed Sudan, the answer was not always a park, a plaza or a promenade. The citys streets, tea stalls (sitat al-shai), protest sites and...

The Conversation scoops two awards in one night, including Publisher Podcast of the Year

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The Conversations audio team is celebrating a very successful night at the Publisher Podcast awards where The Conversation won Publisher Podcast of the Year. The judges said: This particular publisher has been entering...

Should global media giants shape our cultural and media policy? Lessons from satellite radio

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Debates about regulating Canadian content for streaming media platforms are ongoing, and key issues include revising the definition of Canadian content for audio and visual cultural productions and whether big streaming...

Tornado is a Scottish samurai-western film – genres with a long-shared history

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Tornado fuses aspects of the western and samurai-style action in atmospheric 18th-century Scotland. Critics have praised the performances of Tim Roth, Jack Lowden and newcomer Kki who plays the titular Tornado. Director...