In SciDev:
African academics living abroad are a rich source of expertise for the continent’s universities to tap into. In this film we meet Fred Boadu, who left Ghana to pursue an engineering career in the United States more than 20 years ago. He is now a professor at Duke University, one of the country’s most prestigious higher education institutions.
But Boadu has not forgotten his home country. Over the past 14 years, he has regularly returned to the university where he gained his first degree, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), to help the physics and engineering departments develop their curriculums...[more]