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Africa’s innovators for Africa’s challenges
8. Africa’s innovators for Africa’s challenges
By Tom Kariuki and Steven Buchsbaum
Grand Challenges Africa is a partnership among the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA), and the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD). There are times when partnerships are just funding arrangements, but this one represents something more—deeply shared values and a joint understanding of how progress is made.