Kanyhama Dixon-Fyle & Umar Buba in conversation with Scidev:
...while Umar Buba Bindir states:Kanyhama says that this idea of immersion underpins the African feeling about knowledge. It stresses the need to create a space in which a more collaborative, humanistic and holistic approach to knowledge can be developed.
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In African knowledge systems, Kanyhama says, mathematics, art and creativity are linked and lie at the heart of what she calls “game-changing ideas”.
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“Scientists should understand that our lifetime is very short and that by the time you get a PhD you’re already forty or forty-five and when you become a well-known scientist, you’re fifty or sixty and you really don’t have time, so you’d better get on with it.”