Chancellor Scholz praises African science – DW – 11/26/2022
Staff, 2022-11-26 07:17:21,
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sikhulile Moyo and Tulio de Oliveira were “highly deserving recipients” of the German Africa Prize. It was on account of their work that the entire world responded to the infamous variant of SARS-CoV-2 so quickly, he stressed.
During the German Africa Prize ceremony in Berlin on November 25, Scholz acknowleged the fact that Moyo and de Oliveira had “contributed significantly to gaining a better understanding of the dynamics of the pandemic.”
“Human lives were saved this way,” Scholz said, adding that the scientist duo were “representatives of the highly educated research community working” across borders in Africa.
Scholz: Distorted views on Africa
But the Chancellor also admitted that when the Omicron variant emerged, the global response to this scientific discovery coming from Africa was overshadowed by prejudice and bias about the continent as a whole.
“[Our] view [on Africa] is often shaped exclusively by old and outdated patterns of thinking, based on the mental compartmentation of the world into a rich and a supposedly ever more progressive Northern Hemisphere and an allegedly poverty-stricken, destitute and underachieving South,” he said.
Scholz stressed, however, that Moyo and de Oliveira had made it “obvious that Africa is not an underachiever.”
“For many years now, there’s actually been…
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