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There is anxiety in many quarters about a shortage of academics in Africa’s universities. These worries have led to a spate of programs to identify,…
Young African scientists face persistent barriers which cause them to leave their own countries, and even academia. This means the continent’s work force loses highly…
Early career building is about institutions as much as individuals, says Jonathan Harle, all the more in African higher education
With support from her 2007-08 AAUW International Fellowship, Ngumbi earned a Ph.D. in entomology (the study of insects), becoming the first person to earn a…
Medical physicist Iyobosa Uwadiae ignored sceptics who questioned her plan to pursue a doctoral programme in the African nation. Here is her advice.
Tererai Trent, Ph.D., was bound to follow the path that so many women had travelled before her: early marriage, abuse, illiteracy, poverty. Born in a…
Postdoctoral researchers in health-related humanities and social…
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