I just read this article. It is really the f#!ked up utter stupidity of the "innovation" mentality that some of us need to stay away from, IMHO! I have half the mind to openly engage this harvard professor. Somehow I have a feeling this professor could be a entreprenuer ( kazi ya kando.... )

My question is : Mr Professor, when will Kenya or even the greater EA region produce a device or algorithm that for exmaple NASA will recognise and use in its space research?

" The Business Daily’s Steve Mbogo spoke to Calestous Juma, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School on various issues that will shape Africa’s development in the next decade and beyond. You have consistently spoken of the need for Africa to adopt modern technology to drive development. Is the continent heeding this call and what should be done to ensure massive technology usage on production? " ........"Money transfer is an example. Kenyans did not invent the mobile phone, but they were the first innovators in money transfer. So the real less from this examples is that innovation is more important that invention. "

"Are there advantages in being a technological latecomer?Africa has the unique benefit of being a latecomer. It has at its disposal a very large pool of scientific and technological knowledge that it can deploy for economic development. Today, Africa has potential access more knowledge that any of its predecessors has when they embarked on the path of industrialisation."

- Comment : The begining of a self-denialist who cannot explain the vital missing link over the thousands/millions of years of existence.