Kevin Njabo: How we can stop Africa's scientific brain drain
كيفن نجابو: كيف يمكننا وقف هجرة الأدمغة العلمية في أفريقيا
Kevin Njabo is coordinating the development of UCLA's newly established Congo Basin Institute (CBI) in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Full bio
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about sustainable development
and rich biodiversity,
environmental destruction, and poverty.
والتدمير البيئي والفقر.
in sub-Saharan Africa today,
في أفريقيا جنوب الصحراء الكبرى اليوم،
die from malaria every year,
يموت بسبب الملاريا كل سنة،
in sub-Saharan Africa.
في أفريقيا جنوب الصحراء الكبرى.
educational opportunities.
just one university in Cameroon,
كانت هناك جامعة واحدة فقط في الكاميرون
offered some opportunities
to be trained in various fields.
للتدرب في مختلف المجالات.
فور تخرجي كعالم بيئة في نيجيريا،
as an ecologist in Nigeria,
to Boston University for my PhD.
من أجل شهادة الدكتوراه.
in Africa as a continent,
في أفريقيا كقارة،
from the West for short stays,
and brightest out of Africa,
in perpetual need of handouts.
في حاجة دائمة إلى الإعانات.
في جامعة كاليفورنيا
and Sustainability
for groundbreaking research
of policies and programs
of millions of people the world over,
حول العالم أجمع،
that returns home,
in the formal and informal sectors.
في القطاعين الرسمي وغير الرسمي.
to build a sustainable Africa together,
لبناء أفريقيا مستدامة معًا،
to develop the Congo Basin Institute,
لتطوير معهد حوض الكونغو،
with international researchers,
مع باحثين دوليين،
to their own problems.
approach to show how universities,
لنبين كيف يمكن للجامعات،
والأعمال التجارية الخاصة
from the West for short stays,
لإقامات وجيزة،
presence in Africa,
للخدمات اللوجستية والإسكان
and international researchers.
training in Africa.
of climate change on insects, for his PhD,
من أجل شهادة الدكتوراه الخاصة به،
his post-doctorate fellowship
على زمالة ما بعد الدكتوراه
to stay on the continent.
a young Nigerian scientist,
عالم نيجيري شاب،
for Professional Development
في جامعة ويسترن كيب بجنوب أفريقيا
in South Africa
at the same time,
of climate variability and change
على انتقال الملاريا في أفريقيا.
developing models
as an early warning system
our best and brightest out of Africa,
خارج أفريقيا،
local talent in Africa.
في أفريقيا.
في الولايات المتحدة.
but couldn't secure the necessary grants,
ولكنه لم يستطع تأمين المنح اللازمة،
the science he knew he could.
كان يعلم أن بإمكانه ممارسته وتعلمه.
of returning to the US.
to start collaborating
مع معهد حوض الكونغو.
has over half a dozen collaborative grants
أكثر من ست منح تعاونية
nine of them women,
تسعة منهم من النساء،
under climate change,
of Africa taking handouts,
بضرورة تلقي أفريقيا للإعانات،
interdisciplinary approach
to find their own solutions.
with local communities and students,
مع المجتمعات المحلية والطلاب،
the iconic African hardwood.
وهو خشب أفريقي أيقوني متين.
are exploited for timber,
يُستخدم في الألواح الخشبية،
about their ecology,
عن علم البيئة الخاص به،
80 to 200 years.
some cutting-edge tissue culture work.
في صناعة الأنسجة.
entirely from tissues.
تم إنتاجها كليًّا من الأنسجة.
produce African timber
إنتاج الأخشاب الأفريقية
them from seeds,
the varieties of ebony
to co-produce ebony
للمشاركة في إنتاج خشب الأبنوس
in their various farms
في مزارعهم المختلفة
they want in their farms.
التي يريدونها في مزارعهم.
choose themselves
using our modern techniques
their land-use systems,
الخاصة بهم،
from these products
15,000 ebony trees in Cameroon,
في الكاميرون،
from the middle of a pristine forest.
for our African hardwoods,
to include sapele and bubinga,
when I was 18,
حين كنت في الثامنة عشرة من العمر،
by the Congo Basin Institute,
من قبل معهد حوض الكونغو،
universities in the world,
powerful and empowering approach.
هذا النهج المحلي القوي.
universities and NGOs as partners.
ومنظمات غير حكومية كشركاء.
سيتوسع على مساحة المختبر المتوفرة لدينا
on our existing laboratory space
and conference facilities
ومرافق للمؤتمرات
disciplinary approach.
to young African scholars,
للعلماء الأفارقة الشباب،
of Tropical Agriculture's existing network
across sub-Saharan Africa.
عبر أفريقيا جنوب الصحراء الكبرى.
for private-sector investment.
من أجل استثمارات القطاع الخاص.
to African scholars,
للعلماء الأفارقة،
will stay on this continent
like the Congo Basin Institute,
مثل معهد حوض الكونغو،
to solving Africa's problems.
لحل مشاكل أفريقيا.
someone will be giving a TED Talk
آمل أن يلقي شخص ما محادثة TED
of Westerners leaving your homes
من الغربيين الذين يغادرون الديار
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kevin Njabo - Conservation biologistKevin Njabo is coordinating the development of UCLA's newly established Congo Basin Institute (CBI) in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Why you should listen
Dr. Kevin Yana Njabo is the Associate Director and the Africa Director for the Center for Tropical Research (CTR), a part of the University of California, Los Angeles’ (UCLA) Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. He also holds a joint Assistant Professor appointment at both Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and the Department of Environmental Health Sciences. He is responsible for supervising CTR’s research teams in Africa and coordinating the development of UCLA’s newly established Congo Basin Institute (CBI) in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Dr. Njabo also serves as a Visiting Professor at the National University of Rwanda and the Higher Institute of Environmental Sciences, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
His research interests are examining the link between biodiversity and human health where he attempts to address the underlying causes of this emergence and how they relate to changes in biodiversity. His area of research focuses on Africa as a platform for case studies of these relationships with the hope that this work will help develop new interdisciplinary tools and methods to forecast and mitigate risks to biodiversity and health, creating sound strategies to enhance the societal benefits of conserving biodiversity. He serves on several professional bodies including the Board of Governors and Global Vice President of the Society for Conservation Biology; Council Member of the Pan African Ornithological Congress Committee and member of the editorial board for Austin Environmental Sciences, a newly initiated peer-reviewed open access journal with an aim to develop a platform for innovative researchers working in the areas of Environmental Sciences.
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