Africa: What a New Alliance Needs to Succeed

23 September 2015

Inspiration comes in many forms. To Berhanu Abegaz, executive director of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), it comes as a bone ten centimetres in length with tiny notches carved into its sides.

The Ishango bone was found in 1960 in Central Africa by a Belgian explorer, and is on display today in a Belgian museum. Scientists say it is the fibula of a baboon, and have dated it to be from 22,000 years ago. [1]

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