Akin Jimoh: 00:10
He previously worked for the World Health Organization, and now acts as a government adviser on disease outbreaks and epidemics. Maybe South Africa is doing better than others, altthough they do get some foreign support. Not much input from the African governments. But generally that is the situation of science in Africa.Oyewale Tomori 02:28
And all those are combined to go and do medicine. So I thought, “Maybe I'll go ahead and go for medicine, human medicine.” But for political reasons, and other situations in the in the secondary school I went to, it didn't work out that well. I always say that I had divine guidance, being led along the line. I couldn't have a more exciting life than I've had working with viruses. And in Nigeria and other other parts of the world.I can be glad. And I thank all those guys.You know, the years you mentioned close to independence. I mean, I know that those days, everybody was virtually a farmer.You know, we were told you have to go to the farm to help fathers, and so on and so forth.
I never studied outside this country. All my education was here. Of course, when you want to do a postdoc, you go out to another country. But basically all of my study was done in this country. So many of us never really took up international jobs. We just stayed on because things were good. And we must admit that. But somewhere along the line we lost track with all the changes of government, military coups, and all those kinds of things.
See what COVID has done to the world. And that's the situation. So I think we didn't learn enough that you needed a healthy population. You need the health of the people to be able to maintain and sustain your economic growth.The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the continent hard. I will talk about Africa's response in a later episode.
How does my research affect the clothes I'm wearing? How does it affect the house I'm living in? How does it affect the water I'm drinking? How does it affect the transportation, the road that I'm working on?So the role of those academies and other societies will be to get on. They're doing fantastic research. But if you don't know your use, your relevance, then of course, you don't exist as far as they are concerned. So we need to go a step further.
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