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Nature 399, 12 (6 May 1999) | doi:10.1038/19832
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Africa 'needs a linguistic and gender revolution'
An African renaissance is unlikely to happen while English remains the main medium for science education, and without concerted efforts to involve women, according to Ali Mazrui, professor emeritus of Africana Studies at Columbia University, New York.In a keynote address to the fifth general conference of the African Academy of Science, in Hammamet, Mazrui said that one reason why science had failed in Africa was the "masculine bias" of educational institutions both before and after independence.
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