Africa: Stressed Out? Why Mindfulness and Meditation Help Us Cope With the World: [The Conversation Africa] In a world fraught with anxiety, stress, and environmental and humanitarian disasters, people are looking for ways to cope. Many have turned to practices originating in ancient eastern philosophies for guidance. Among these is mindfulness, which is linked to meditation. Lucy Draper-Clarke, researcher and author of The Compassionate Activist, spoke to health & medicine editor Nadine Dreyer about looking inwards and cultivating compassion, awareness and gratitude. – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: Africans Discovered Dinosaur Fossils Long Before the Term ‘Palaeontology’ Existed: [The Conversation Africa] Credit for discovering the first dinosaur bones usually goes to British gentlemen for their finds between the 17th and 19th centuries in England. Robert Plot, an English natural history scholar, was the first of these to describe a dinosaur bone, in his 1676 book The Natural History of Oxfordshire. Over the next two centuries dinosaur palaeontology would be dominated by numerous British natural scientists. – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: Nigeria to Extend Suspension of Academic Degrees From Kenya, Uganda and Niger: [Capital FM] Nairobi — The Federal Government of Nigeria says it will extend the suspension of accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates to include those from Kenya, the Niger Republic, and Uganda. – AllAfrica News: Africa
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