Kenya: Lecturer Wins Huge Award for Reining in Lethal Cereal Killer

10 August 2020

The sight of Prof Steven Runo in sorghum fields in Kibos, Alupe or Mbita, all in western Kenya, would be less alluring.

But it is the work in those fields and under the scorching heat of the lake region that saw him win this year's Royal Society Africa Prize for the best scientific research.

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