Art & Culture

Genuine happiness relies on authentic interpersonal connections, but AI is disrupting traditional ideas of friendship and relationships. Can technology really replace human relationships?

I am a historian researching punishment in Kenya, and I have been investigating the deeper history of detention camps. My research shows that this emergency detention system was shaped by an earlier network of “ordinary” detention camps. These were established in 1926 and processed more than 400,000 people before the uprising.

As health economists interested in the behaviour of healthcare providers, we sought to explore an understudied driver of health inequalities in Tunisia: whether doctors treat patients from different socioeconomic backgrounds differently during a clinical encounter.

Africa is also often cited as holding around 60% of the world's uncultivated arable land, one reason the continent matters so much to future food systems. These figures do not simply represent economic progress. They represent potential. They are reminders that the continent is not waiting for others to build its future. It is already doing so.

My book sits wrapped in brown paper on my lap. Precursor. Six years of composition while dana’s mind performed its cartridge of forgetting. Now it exists bound, physical and bearing her name in the dedication. I spent the night touching the cover, feeling sick with accomplishment and loss, that particular nausea of creating something permanent while watching someone become provisional. Even before the city’s humidity thickens at the edges of the lake, the nights behind me stack themselves into brittle plates. Nights of drafting and tearing, revising, arguing with ghosts, wondering whether memory is a rope or a river. I bring all that restlessness into this homecoming. I am gut-full with joy-grief and the double-edged brightness of knowing she will finally hold what I’ve spent years breathing toward.