Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease in Sierra Leone – Cheedy Jaja – Sierra Leone 2018
Sickle cell disease is highly prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa, where it accounts for substantial morbidity and mortality. Newborn screening is paramount for early diagnosis and enrollment of affected children into a comprehensive care program. Up to now, this strategy has been dramatically impaired in resource-poor countries because screening methods are technologically and financially intensive; affordable, […]
Scholarship and Friendships in Kenya – Jay L. Wenger – Kenya 2011
Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) is a quality, but less familiar university in western Kenya, about a 6-hour drive from Nairobi. MMUST never hosted a Fulbright Scholar until I arrived in January 2011 for a 5-month assignment. What an honor! My assignment was to work closely with two Kenyan professors to […]
Unexpected Meeting with Vice President Ian Khama – Edwin Michael Kaiser – Botswana 2003
On a Saturday morning in a drugstore at a local shopping center of Gaborone, Botswana, I had the pleasure to literally bump into the Honorable Ian Khama, Vice President of Botswana. I said to him, “Excuse me sir, but you look very much like the Vice President of Botswana.” He smiled as he responded, “some […]
Tim Perry – South Africa 2002
An Ordinary Country? When we close the books on 2020, it will be measured not just in tragic loss of life to covid-19, but by a summer of Black Lives Matter protests, and the continued decline of democracy worldwide. Amid these trends, my thoughts have turned to the late Dr. Neville Alexander, the anti-Apartheid activist […]
Ron du Bois – Nigeria 1987
Making a Film Documentary on African Ceramics by Ron du Bois, Professor Emeritus of Art, Oklahoma State University From the start, our Nigerian Saga was ruled by chance, by luck, by indeterminacy. We were led by forces whose effects could never have been foreseen or predicted, such as a chance meeting in a type of […]