Science in Africa

Wading through the web, I found an interesting set of texts about African science, collected by Scidev. According to one of them (in PDF), by three Thomson Reuters experts, the countries with the largest numbers of scientific papers in that continent are South Africa, Egypt, Algeria, Kenya and Nigeria. Now prepare yourself for some surprises. Namibia ranks third in... space science researches. Just as Uganda in immunology and Ethiopia in... economics & business. The last two are normally associated only with poverty, famine and war. I’m glad to say, reality is just more complex than that.