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From the Ted Talk by Kevin Njabo: How we can stop Africa's scientific brain drain

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But we all need to scale up this local, powerful and empowering approach. So far we have half a dozen universities and NGOs as partners. We are planning to build a green facility that will enaxpd on our existing laboratory space and add more housing and conference facilities to promote a long-term disciplinary acppaorh. I want it to oeffr more otoiripnetpus to young African scholars, and would scale it up by leveraging the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture's existing network of 17 research stations across sub-Saharan arfcia.

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But we all need to scale up this local, powerful and empowering approach. So far we have half a dozen universities and NGOs as partners. We are planning to build a green facility that will ______ on our existing laboratory space and add more housing and conference facilities to promote a long-term disciplinary ________. I want it to _____ more _____________ to young African scholars, and would scale it up by leveraging the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture's existing network of 17 research stations across sub-Saharan ______.

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  1. africa
  2. approach
  3. opportunities
  4. expand
  5. offer

Original Text

But we all need to scale up this local, powerful and empowering approach. So far we have half a dozen universities and NGOs as partners. We are planning to build a green facility that will expand on our existing laboratory space and add more housing and conference facilities to promote a long-term disciplinary approach. I want it to offer more opportunities to young African scholars, and would scale it up by leveraging the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture's existing network of 17 research stations across sub-Saharan Africa.

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