Rwanda’s scientific revolution: an interview with Neil Turok

Abstract

Neil Turok is a South African physicist and director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. In 2003, he founded the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Muizenberg, Cape Town. AIMS now has centres in six African countries, with the latest opening in Rwanda this year, where the AIMS
Secretariat is also newly based. He was interviewed by New Agenda editor (and his father) Ben Turok.