Today’s Guardian features an article on AIMS and the Next Einstein Initiative. The student profiles are the highlight.

The year Marie Chantal Cyulinyana was 12 she didn’t go to school. The 1994 genocide that cost her country, Rwanda, a million lives also put her education on hold.

She was lucky – she went back to school the following year. Many of her contemporaries never did…

Olubode Adetunji – called Bode for short – faced a different challenge growing up in Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city. In Africa’s most populous country, where there are 100 universities but few good jobs, only the best succeed.

Thousands of miles separated Cyulinyana and Adetunji as they grew up. But their fates were to be joined…they both heard about an institute in South Africa where promising young scholars from all over the continent could develop their skills.

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