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The Pan-African School for Emerging Astronomers

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The Pan-African School for Emerging Astronomers (PASEA) is an innovative short course for African university students, held by an African-led international collaboration. PASEA aims to build a critical mass of astronomers in Africa and exchange ideas about teaching across continents.

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Fig. 1: Overview of PASEA programme and alumni.

Sara Webb.

Fig. 2: Adama Ogechi Maryqueen, Jane Abangwu and Taiwo Esther Toluwalase at PASEA 2019.

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Acknowledgements

PASEA is grateful to have received funding from the Office of Astronomy for Development, SKA South Africa (now SARAO), the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, the Centre for Basic Space Science (CBSS) and the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) in Nigeria, the Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy (DARA) project, the University of British Columbia, the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Royal Society, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, the IAU Open Astronomy Schools project, and crowdfunding contributors. PASEA is grateful for telescope time from the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope as a Global Education Partner. We are grateful for additional contributions to PASEA by D. Bayer, J. Chukwunonyerem, Y. Cendes, K. Foote, L. Löbling, V. Murray, S. Rauhut, M. Reid and colleagues at CBSS, NASRDA and the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute. B.O., L.S. and J.Z. are co-directors of PASEA.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Linda Strubbe & Allison Man

  2. Skylight: Science Centre for Learning and Teaching, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Linda Strubbe

  3. Strubbe Educational Consulting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Linda Strubbe

  4. Centre for Basic Space Science, Nsukka, Nigeria

    Bonaventure I. Okere, Chukwujekwu Nworah Ofodum & Nnaemeka Onyeuwaoma

  5. The Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Jielai Zhang & Sara Webb

  6. Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Jielai Zhang & Sara Webb

  7. Centre for Space Research, North-West University, Potchefstroom, North West, South Africa

    James O. Chibueze

  8. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

    James O. Chibueze, Finbarr Odo, Romanus Eze & Johnson Urama

  9. Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Margaret Ikape, Adaeze Ibik, Heidi White & Lamiya Mowla

  10. David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Margaret Ikape, Adaeze Ibik & Heidi White

  11. Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

    Patrice M. Okouma

  12. Ghana Planetarium, Accra, Ghana

    Sarah Abotsi-Masters

  13. Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute, Accra, Ghana

    Bernard Duah Asabere

  14. The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Dwingeloo, the Netherlands

    Bernard Duah Asabere

  15. Univ. Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes), Rennes, France

    Cheikh Tidiane Bop

  16. Department of Physics, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

    Sudum Esaenwi

  17. Voyager Golden Media, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Thai Duy Cuong Nguyen

  18. Centre for Atmospheric Research, Anyigba, Nigeria

    Daniel Odoh

  19. Satake Corporation, Hiroshima, Japan

    Wesley Cheek

  20. Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Kaleden, British Columbia, Canada

    Meiling Deng

  21. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Meiling Deng

  22. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Wolfgang Kerzendorf

  23. Department of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Wolfgang Kerzendorf

  24. Department of Physics, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

    Nana Ama Browne Klutse

  25. Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Kelly Lepo

  26. Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co KG, Munich, Germany

    Anabele-Linda Pardi

  27. Inigo Films, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Alison Rose

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the PASEA collaboration

  • Bonaventure I. Okere
  • , Linda Strubbe
  • , Jielai Zhang
  • , Sarah Abotsi-Masters
  • , Bernard Duah Asabere
  • , Cheikh Tidiane Bop
  • , James O. Chibueze
  • , Sudum Esaenwi
  • , Adaeze Ibik
  • , Margaret Ikape
  • , Allison Man
  • , Lamiya Mowla
  • , Thai Duy Cuong Nguyen
  • , Finbarr Odo
  • , Daniel Odoh
  • , Chukwujekwu Nworah Ofodum
  • , Nnaemeka Onyeuwaoma
  • , Patrice M. Okouma
  • , Sara Webb
  • , Heidi White
  • , Wesley Cheek
  • , Meiling Deng
  • , Romanus Eze
  • , Wolfgang Kerzendorf
  • , Nana Ama Browne Klutse
  • , Kelly Lepo
  • , Anabele-Linda Pardi
  • , Alison Rose
  •  & Johnson Urama

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Strubbe, L., Okere, B.I., Zhang, J. et al. The Pan-African School for Emerging Astronomers. Nat Astron 5, 217–220 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01301-7

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