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Tom Kariuki is the director of the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA), an initiative launched in 2015 by the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) Agency, which aims to help drive Africa's research agenda and build scientific capacity across

Professor Sonya Smith believes Afrikan women and their diaspora will drive the global research agenda. Smith is the first Afrikan-American woman to be appointed as a Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at Howard University, and the first woman in that department to be promoted to a full professor. She is also