Africa's Research Equality Charter to 'Bridge Divide': Africa
In 2018, four regions in Africa - Central, Eastern, Southern and Western - produced just 1.6 per cent of the total global scientific
"The aim is to ensure that African scholars, institutions and knowledges from the continent take their rightful place in the worldwide scientific efforts.
"These power imbalances are legacies of colonialism that continue to disadvantage African scholars and higher education institutions, the continent's broader economic and political prospects, and they deprive global scholarship of the richness it so urgently needs," she toldonly a few highly cited scholars are associated with African universities and a disproportionately small number of researchers and scientific literature are African.
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