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Encouraging a scientific habit of the mind
...Tsanni says Nobles guided him through the conceptualization and structure of the article. Tsanni is a founding member of the nonprofit African Science Literacy Network, a partnership that brings African...
Associate Professor Amah Edoh receives Baker Award for undergraduate teaching
...book tracks how Dutch Wax cloth (a.k.a. African print cloth) circulates as a symbol, material, and commodity in those global circuits in which visions of Africa’s future are articulated. The...
Expanding energy access in rural Lesotho
...them the most. As the satellite image of earth at night shows, that includes many unelectrified community across sub-Saharan Africa. “We think Africans in rural areas should have the same...
It all adds up
...at MIT.” Professor Hazel Sive, faculty director for MISTI-Africa and director of the MIT-Africa Initiative, visited the Uganda program. “This is a fantastic contribution by the MIT Mathematics Department. Our...
Creating a network of drivers to lift a community
...the company, but also to improve West Africa’s infrastructure in the process. “We’re building infrastructure to provide energy and mobility in West African cities, and we’re also partnering with established...
José Maria Neves, president of Cape Verde, tours MIT
...the MIT-Africa Program, Global MIT, and the True Africa University (TAU), a global learning network. The forum was moderated by Claude Grunitzky MBA ’12, a journalist and entrepreneur who runs...
Homegrown help: Seeding a culture of innovation in Nigeria
...unit hopes to engage with other governments and the private sector in Africa to help develop similar programs that promote innovative thinking and practices. “I was born in southern Africa,...
Shipping Background Delivers the Chance to Feed Millions
...to Dakar, Senegal, where he now serves as the WFP’s regional director for western Africa. In most of Africa, about 70 percent of the population live for the next two...
Spring 2022 Honoree: Dr. Mohamed Hassan
...Hassan gave a keynote lecture on the role of frontier science, technology and innovation in achieving the sustainable development goals in Africa. Keynote Lecture: Sustainability for Africa – the role...
Frequent encounters build familiarity
...Ghana and South Africa, Bollen is demonstrating that even in diverse communities, “when people repeatedly come into contact, even if that contact is casual, they can build understanding that can...