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A Modern West African Magazine of Folklore, Food Memory & Cusine
A Changing World and a Growing Challenge Today, we are fortunate to be immersed in, or perhaps submerged by, technology that has created a global community both in terms of communications and information management but also through a complex and extensive network of transportation modes and routes. For forensic practitioners tasked with the responsibility of […]
Incidental Findings in Forensic Genetics
DNA is designed to build organisms, store information, and forensically speaking to answer questions. But what unfolds when it reveals secrets nobody intended to ask? UPHAWU asked me to write about how forensic DNA analyses preserve identity and respect: restoring names, supporting the families of missing persons, protecting dignity and strengthening justice across Africa. It […]
Editor’s Bookshelf
The Book That Stayed with Me š Best readOn a quiet Sunday evening ā Pairs well withGinger tea, curiosity, and a notebook šµ Soundtrack Rain sounds or pure stillness Cause of insomnia Chapter 12: The perfect murder Most underlined chapter: Chapter 17: Ten lessons for the living from the dead Still thinking about: Page 196- […]
A Modern West African Magazine of Folklore, Food Memory & Cusine
A Changing World and a Growing Challenge Today, we are fortunate to be immersed in, or perhaps submerged by, technology that has created a global community both in terms of communications and information management but also through a complex and extensive network of transportation modes and routes. For forensic practitioners tasked with the responsibility of […]
The Human Right to be Known ā Searching For and Identifying the Dead
A Changing World and a Growing Challenge Today, we are fortunate to be immersed in, or perhaps submerged by, technology that has created a global community both in terms of communications and information management but also through a complex and extensive network of transportation modes and routes. For forensic practitioners tasked with the responsibility of […]
Restoring Identity Through Forensic Art.
How forensic art gives restores faces, names and dignity back to the forgotten By Tinotenda Chiyangwa I am Tinotenda Chiyangwa, the first Zimbabwean forensic artist and 3rd in the African continent. DISCOVERING MY PURPOSE From an early age, I was captivated by crime and forensic science programs, particularly the process of identifying individuals from skeletal […]
