News

University Vice-Chancellor Participates In A Fungal Citizen Science Project

November 6, 2019

University of Pretoria Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Prof. Tawana Kupe collected soil samples at the Future Africa campus on 30 October as part of a FABI-hosted Citizen Science project “Fungi for Future”.

Read more

Call for applications – ASLP 2020

November 1, 2019

The Africa Science Leadership Programme announces the launch of their 2020 call. The sixth ASLP workshop is planned to be held in Pretoria at the Future Africa campus in March 2020. The programme was launched in June 2015 with a first cohort of 20 fellows.

Read more

Get to know the ECRLF Fellows: Dr. Oluwole Coker

October 31, 2019

Growing up, Dr. Oluwole Coker had a deep passion for African literary and cultural studies. “I was fascinated by the depth of African orature and its seeming inexhaustiveness.” These were the experiences that motivated him to study Literature.

Read more

Get to know the ECRLF Fellows: Dr. Carene Picot-Allain

October 24, 2019

Dr. Carene Picot-Allain in simple terms is living her childhood dreams. Her love of nature as a young child was a clear sign that she was destined for a career in natural sciences.

Read more

Future Africa Workshop Day for Early Career Research Fellows

October 23, 2019

The Early Career Research Fellows attended two thoughtful workshops on 16 October at Future Africa. A 'Future Studies' workshop was held early on Wednesday by expert Dr Robert Bourgeois and a Science Communication session was later facilitated by Ms Anina Mumm of Sciencelink.

Read more

The Tuks Young Research Leader Programme completes a successful fifth round

October 15, 2019

The fifth round of the Tuks Young Research Leader Programme successfully completed a fifth round on 14 and 15 October. The workshop took place, for the first time, at the new Future Africa Institute.

Read more

Imagine this headline in 2037: Mushrooms make Africa great again

October 11, 2019

Imagine this headline in 2037: "Mushrooms make Africa great again"...Future Africa's Dr Rosemary Kinge Tonjock, from Cameroon, believes the modest #mushroom could help boost #foodsecurity in Africa.

Read more

Microsoft AI for Good workshop at Future Africa

October 2, 2019

Technology has permeated different aspects of our lives and by all indications this is only going to increase with Artificial Intelligence (AI) set to be at pole position.

Read more