Future of science in Africa

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Africa contributes very little to knowledge creation at the moment. A panel of scientists discuss how science can grow on the continent with Gareth Mitchell and Alan Kasujja. Professor Lillian Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Makerere University, Dr Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, an engineer who build landers that land on Mars, Professor Tejinder Virdee, the leader of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland, Dr Kotcho Karume, Director of the Goma Volcanic Observatory in the DRC, and Dr Thierry Zomahoun, Executive Director of AIMS – Next Einstein Initiative, based in South Africa, discuss how to improve science education, inspire more people to study science, the infrastructure for research and funding for science. And Dr Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu demonstrates a robot simply made from Lego that he uses to teach physics concepts in an interesting way. (Image: An Africa school pupil. Credit: TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)