Neil Turok is the director of the Perimeter Institute and the founder of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Here Neil talks about Africa as the world's greatest untapped pool of scientific and technical talent. Unlocking it could result in Africa doing for science what it has already done for music and art.
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