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Now a talk on physics in Africa from Azwinndini Muronga #BlackandSTEM #ICHEP2018

He starts by situating how we should think about “diversity” in context — and he argues for the need to create safe spaces #ICHEP2018

African youth are almost 1/5 of the world’s youth. What does it mean for *humanity* that #BlackandSTEM are excluded from science on the continent and globally? #ICHEP2018

African nationals are only 0.5% of particle experimentalists at CERN, despite being almost 20% of global population 😡 #ICHEP2018 #BlackandSTEM

LHCb has no African participation. #BlackandSTEM #ICHEP2018

When talking about women in African physics, which women are you talking about? Muronga notes the importance of especially talking to and with women from the villages. #BlackandSTEM #ICHEP2018

ICTP has done a good job of recruiting African women to visit and collaborate on science #ICHEP2018 #BlackandSTEM

Me: there is a huge contrast between the emphasis on Black women in the African physics community and on women in the African American physics community ... it seems women have been a consideration since the end of apartheid, which is not how it worked in the US #blackandSTEM