Ijeoma Uchegbu: ‘My approach is always to be kind’
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Ada McVean2024-08-02T08:35:00
The innovative nanoscientist on the power of kindness and how she scrubbed eugenicists from campus buildings
I lived in London until I was about 13 years old. And then my family moved back to Nigeria just after the end of the Nigerian Civil War. When I got to school, the big thing that hit me was that the curriculum was so different. The only subjects that were the same were the sciences. So, I found a natural home in what I found to be familiar.
Doing research in Nigeria was really hard because of the infrastructure blight. I used to drive for maybe 40 minutes to use a centrifuge. I used to drive for three hours to use an NMR.