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Will Einstein\\u2019s successors be African? It\\u2019s very likely - and some of them will be women.

Back in 2008 South African physicist Neil Turok gave a speech in which he declared his wish that the next Einstein would be from Africa. \\nIt was a rallying call for investment in maths and physics research in Africa. The \\u2018Next Einstein\\u2019 slogan became a mission for the organisation Neil Turok had founded to bring Africa into the global scientific community - through investment in maths and physics, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. \\nThat search for an African Einstein now has some results, with 15 \\u2018Next Einstein fellows\\u2019 and 54 \\u2018Next Einstein Ambassadors\\u2019. \\nThese are young African scientists, often leaders in their fields, working and studying in Africa. \\nThis programme visits the first \\u2018Next Einstein Forum\\u2019 \\u2013 a meeting held in March 2016 in Senegal which celebrated the Next Einstein Fellows and also make the case for greater investment in scientific research in Africa.

(Image: Rwandan President Paul Kagame answers a question during the NEF Global Gathering 2016 Presidential Panel, credit: NEF/Cl\\xe9ment Tardif)