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Africa: Future Worldwide Science Hub

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Thierry Zomahoun, president of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, talks about the potential and needs of science on the continent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.5

This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski.

0:38.7

In a couple of decades from now, Africa is going to be the powerhouse of human capital, globally, the youngest continent in terms of demography.

0:48.9

Terry Zuma-Hun, he's the president and CEO of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

0:55.4

He spoke with Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Mariette de Cristina, who recorded these comments

1:00.2

at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos.

1:03.5

Africa is going to be the global hope for science discoveries in this century.

1:08.4

And how to make this happen is going to take three things.

1:12.1

In my view, number one, we've got a massive pool of untapped scientific talent,

1:19.3

which are a wave of youngsters which are coming.

1:22.8

What we need to do is to provide these young people, young people with the ecosystem

1:29.3

within which they can flourish as great scientists and successful scientists.

1:35.5

Ecosystem meaning training, give them the right training, give them research infrastructure

1:40.9

for them to be able to come up as a great scientist. So second thing this is going

1:46.7

to take is a conducive policy environment. Political leaders, industry leaders who must join

1:54.1

forces to come up with policies which are conducive for science in Africa. And lastly, global collaboration around science.

2:03.6

We need the American continent, the European continent, all continent to join forces around

2:09.9

Africa, collaborate effectively researchers from the West and Africa to collaborate

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