![]() ![]() To help pay his school fees, Juma fixed broken radios and record players. ![]() His childhood was plagued by bouts of malaria. Yet he was loved for his approachability - especially by journalists such as me, with whom he shared a special bond.īorn in 1953, Juma grew up in Busia County, western Kenya, on the shores of Lake Victoria. For African academics, Juma was an ally connected to the world’s most powerful presidents and prime ministers. Juma’s trademark mix of candour and humour inspired many African presidents, including Paul Kagame of Rwanda, to invest in national and continental research schemes. Juma, a Kenyan professor at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 15 December, at the age of 64. He founded Africa’s first science-policy think tank, led major United Nations science initiatives and wrote influential books. An international-development scholar, he championed the harnessing of science, technology and innovation for development. ![]() “Africa,” Calestous Juma wrote to me in 2015, “is diverging between those who want to talk and those who want to do something practical.” Juma was one of the latter. ![]()
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