SCIENCE IN AFRICA Overview

What is our mission? To promote local and international awareness of science conducted in Africa To give young scientists the opportunity to showcase their research to Africa and beyond To give information on scientific and health issues directly affecting society To give teachers of science in Africa access to resources and information of local relevance To encourage debate on scientific issues To encourage an informed/thinking/questioning African society To further science communication between African countries Who are we? The editorial staff are a group of reasonably happy, fairly young scientists who delight in science and delight in Africa and her people. Editor-in-chief is Dr Janice Limson who holds a PhD in physical chemistry. She is also the founder, designer and webmaster for Science in Africa. By day Janice does research in and lectures in biotechnolgy at Rhodes University in South Africa. She sleeps most nights. Bringing biotechnology and microbiology expertise to Science in Africa is the nature-loving, bee-keeping editor, Dr Garth Cambray. Garth holds a PhD in Biotechnology from Rhodes University and is one of the three developers of the African mead Honey Sun and a director of the associated company, Makana Meadery. Most important is our highly gifted PR person who brings us to the public in the form of radio interviews, magazine interviews, TV interviews and news reports.