Africans In Science

Nigeria Egypt & S.Africa Leading in African Solar Panel Production

By John Ofikhenua
Nigeria has joined Egypt and South Africa as the third African nation to produce its solar panels for electricity purposes locally. The Science and Technology Minister, Professor Ita Okon Bassey Ewa, announced this yesterday when he led a delegation in a consultation visit to the Minister of Power, Professor Bart Nnaji.

The African Eye to The Universe

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Africa_telescope In the remote Northern Cape, the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere is producing crystal-clear images from deep space, thanks to the province's unique climate and topography. A semi-desert region, the Northern Cape is far less developed than the rest of South Africa, with vast stretches of arid bushland between its cities and towns.

Professor Kelly Chibale, Zambian Scientist Leads African Drug Discovery Research

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Professor Kelly Chibale oversees projects devoted to novel therapies for HIV, TB, malaria, cardiovascular disease and hypertension in South Africa. In the sleek laboratories of the University of Cape Town (UCT), the future of African drug discovery is being written.

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African Scientists find Gene That Causes Hereditary Heart Disease.

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heart-gene Researchers from South Africa’s Stellenbosch University, working with international colleagues in a study spanning more than 30 years, have identified the rogue or defective gene that causes a type of hereditary heart disease. Among the researchers are the father and son cardiac research team of Professors Andries and Paul Brink. They worked on the study with colleagues from the German universities of Hamburg and Münster.

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Super Antibodies Against HIV Discovered in African Countries

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Research in seven sub-Saharan African countries has unearthed two powerful and broadly effective antibodies to the HI virus that promise to give new impetus to the development of an Aids vaccine. Published in this week’s edition of Science, the findings are the result of a worldwide effort launched by the US-based International Aids Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) in 2006 to find new antibodies that neutralize a wide variety of strains of HIV circulating in the world.