The Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures tells the story of African-American women whose maths skills helped put a US astronaut into orbit in the 1960s. But the history of black women working for Nasa goes back much further – and they were still struggling to get the best jobs in the 1970s. In 1943, two years
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Emerging African development thinking Part 3
SPECIAL INTERVIEW (Part 3) Development/Africa Kofi Akosah-Sarpong continues his discussions with Prof. George Ayittey on his argument that US President Barack Obama’s Accra proclamation that Africa’s future is in Africans hands is an “intellectual vindication” for the “Internalist School” of African development Q. Did the “Internalist School” demonstrate that African intellectuals have finally come out