Africa: Our Girls Stay Home And India, China Scoop the Science Prizes

It's the Nobel Prize season once again. Exactly two years ago, we were celebrating the announcement of Prof. Wangari Maathai as winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Prof Maathai's Nobel brought the number of African recipients to 13. Except for the 1951 Nobel Prize for Medicine that was awarded to the South African doctor Max Theiler, and the 1999 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to the Egyptian-born Ahmed Zewail, all the others have been either for Literature or Peace.