Science and technology in Africa has unfolded since the dawn of human history.
The first
evidence of tool use and tool making by our hominid ancestors is interred in valleys across
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Currently, forty percent of
African-born scientists live in OECD countries, predominantly NATO and EU
countries. This has been described as an African brain drain.[1]
Sub-Saharan African countries spent on average
0.3% of their GDP on S&T (Science and Technology) in 2007. This represents
a combined increase from US$1.8bn in 2002 to US$2.8bn in 2007.
