Across the street from a church and in front of a dilapidated school is a grimy, sand-colored building that looks like any other here in Lagos, a prominent Nigerian port city. But inside is something far from ordinary: the center of West Africa’s burgeoning tech scene. On the walls, posters preach disruption: “Move fast and break […]
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The past days at UNLEASH Innovation Program, were truly mind blowing! Last month, I was honored to be selected from over 10,000 applicants from 165+ countries to participate in an innovation lab to develop innovative and scalable solutions that address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in collaboration with other talents, companies, research institutions, […]
Beginning of this week, Zimbabwean engineer Admire Mugwinyi, and founder of Awake Unto Righteousness International Ministries, published science textbooks, that simplify concepts and make Physical Sciences easy to understand. Mugwinyi, who studied Bio-resources Engineering, is an experienced teacher. He compiled and published three Physical Sciences textbooks for South Africa’s Grades 10, 11 and 12 (Form […]
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Professor Joey Ocon, one of the promising and young scientists who currently teaches and do researches at the University of the Philippines Diliman’s Department of Chemical Engineering, shared that there can be possible scientific works that will aid Malawi in it recovery phase. Rwanda’s former minister of science and technology, Romain Murenzi, recalled how science and technology […]
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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 […]
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 […]