Around 210 million years ago, a Musankwa sanyatiensis, a bipedal dinosaur with a long neck and sweeping tail, took its last steps in an unusually swampy region of southern Pangea. In the summer of 2018, scientists from Zimbabwe, South Africa, the UK, and the USA discovered its fossils on Spurwing Island in Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. Among them were Paul Barrett from the Natural History Museum in London and Jonah Choiniere from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

In South Africa, where universities remain heavily influenced by Western educational models, black students’ backgrounds significantly influence their chances of graduation. Specifically, factors like home language, economic background and experiences of racism and sexism critically affect whether students can integrate socially and academically.