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Category Archives: Sub-Saharan Africa
Copperbelt University is primarily a teaching university in the Copperbelt region of Zambia. As with universities everywhere and in tune with the Government understanding that research is necessary for the countries development, they are actively trying to improve their research productivity. My proposal was to use astronomy to provide a path to implementing a research […]
This is a pilot project to support students all over Africa who want to study Astronomy but where the university in their home country does not offer astronomy courses. We pay for their UNISA (University of South Africa) applications and the astronomy modules for the first and second year. In other words, this is a multi-year project. The project started slow […]
The Travelling Telescope is a project that focuses on promoting Astronomy in Africa. From January 2015 our team started an outreach astronomy project in rural coastal Kenya visiting schools and teaching students. We recruited university students from the University of Nairobi with degrees in Astronomy & Physics. After interviews to determine we had picked a team of enthusiasts we […]
Through the support of OAD and AWB (Astronomers Without Borders), UNAWE-Tanzania and Telescopes to Tanzania carried out this project in collaboration with Organization for Science Education and Observatory (Center for Science) in Arusha region of northern Tanzania. The astronomy project was successfully introduced in Tanzanian schools as a tool to inspire teaching and understanding of […]
