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13-08-201409/08/2014, Scientific research in Africa is gathering momentum
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AFRICA has a poor reputation for scientific innovation. But when South Africa jointly won a bid in 2012 to host the world?s largest science project, for a radio telescope called the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), it hoped to foster a new image. ?It?s changing the way the world sees us, as somewhere for cutting-edge science and technology,? says SKA?s Bernie Fanaroff. ?And also the way we see ourselves.?
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