The Man Making Rwanda Into a Hub for Physics
Omololu Akin-Ojo was constantly reluctant to go to the United States. “I felt I might do a lot of things in Africa,” he informed me in his workplace at the new East African Institute for Essential Research (EAIFR) in Kigali, Rwanda. “Unfortunately, I was incorrect.” As a university trainee in his home country of Nigeria in the late 1990s, Akin-Ojo discovered to write computer system code by hand, without ever having the opportunity to put the code into a computer. Knowledgeable about these constraints, his father, a physicist, encouraged him…
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