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MacArthur Foundation Announces 25 New ‘Genius’ Grant Winners
African people have no short supply of exhibited ingenuity. That is why I’m working so diligently behind the scenes to foster that creativity and bend it to the betterment of Africa and mankind itself. To be clear, innovation and inventions (inventiveness) are not only confined to clever new processes, gadgets, or technologies. Tharaka Invention Academy apprentices will be encouraged to expand and apply their newly acquired skills to a broad range of solutions to common and sometimes aggravating problems. They’ll help maximize the use of African resources for African purposes and prosperity. At the Academy we are currently quietly undertaking a broad expansion of our mission which subscribers will learn more about in future posts. Stay tuned…
Organizations like the MacArthur Foundation secretly confer to recognize and award exceptional creativity in a wide array of human endeavors. The 2022 awards are going to artists, activists, scholars, scientists and others who have shown “exceptional creativity.” The grants are a bit bigger than before: $800,000 over five years. The fellowship is meant for those who “show exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future,” according to the foundation. This year’s fellows also include: the artists Paul Chan, Sky Hopinka and Tavares Strachan; the mathematicians June Huh and Melanie Matchett Wood; the historian Monica Kim; the writer Kiese Laymon; Danna Freedman, a synthetic inorganic chemist; Martha Gonzalez, a musician and scholar; Joseph Drew Lanham, an ornithologist and naturalist; Reuben Jonathan Miller, a sociologist, criminologist and social worker; and Emily Wang, a primary-care physician and researcher.
Prof. Oku Singer, Mechanical/Solar Engineer
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