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Brenda Wingfield, Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DST-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor of Genetics, University of Pretoria writes in the conversation that, the peer review system has received a fair amount of negative press in recent years. It has been criticized largely because it is not particularly transparent and depends […]

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The Petroleum Museum and Midland Lee High School hosted First Tech Challenge, where 20 teams from nine different schools compete against each other using robots they built themselves. Robots had to perform tasks like picking up items and placing them in a certain location. This is to prepare STEM students for championship. Watch […]

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On average, women make up 30% of the people working in STEM-related jobs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite thousands of jobs being created in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) industries across Africa, gender discrimination and lack of access to education and technology means young women are often kept out of the workforce and unable […]

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Olive Eyotaru writes in the observer that, strengthening the science and technology ecosystem is essential for solving pressing societal challenges, like limited access to quality health services, hunger and malnutrition, poverty, climate change effects and limited access to safe water. Minister Elioda Tumwesigye who heads Uganda’s science and technology docket, recently in Brussels, Belgium said that, […]

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Professeur de mathématiques à la Northeastern University (États-Unis), le scientifique congolais fait partie des 16 lauréats du Next Einstein Forum (NEF) qui se réuniront du 26 au 28 mars 2018 à Kigali, au Rwanda, à l’occasion d’une rencontre internationale où ils présenteront leurs recherches de pointe. Son travail se situe à l’intersection de la théorie […]

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Gender inequality in Africa is a multi-layered and complex issue and class differences inform the articulation of how inequality is experienced by women. Low-income women are often trapped in an economic and cultural reality where girls are excluded from going to school; according to the UN only 39 per cent of girls in rural areas […]

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In recent years the role of microbes in human health has enjoyed a huge surge of interest and popularity. Microbes are very small organisms (like bacteria, viruses and fungi) that cannot be seen by the naked eye. Meet NEF Fellow Doctor Mamadou kaba from Guinea, a specialist in medical microbiology. Kaba’s daily work include; Studying the role of […]

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In an opinion page published in project Syndicate, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Dean Baker and Arjun Jayadev, write that developing countries are increasingly pushing back against the intellectual property regime foisted on them by the advanced economies over the last 30 years. Economists have recognized for decades that the most important determinant of growth and thus […]

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In Africa, achieving a meaningful and relevant education means addressing a web of challenges in society in order to attain a trans-formative outcome. Only 43 per cent of young people have access to secondary education and only eight per cent can access tertiary education, according to UNESCO’s Global Monitoring Report, 2016. Gloria Iribagiza, writes in the […]

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