Nairobi (Kenya), 2025, August
Teaching Quantum Physics using international methods has made its debut at MMUST Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology of Kakamega (Kenya).
There, David Machiri and Wycliffe Isoe, from the Department of Physics of the MMUST, under the supervision of Dr. Victor Odari, senior lecturer and local coordinator of the APhRICA training program, in turn gave their Quantum Mechanics lectures to bachelor’s students.
Both of them had attended the first edition of the APhRICA QM1 (Quantum Mechanics 1) course taught by Dr Andrea Marini at the ICTP-EAIFR in Kigali in December 2024.
This is the achievement of an exceptional goal, which not only demonstrates the validity of the idea on which the entire APhRICA program is based, where scientific cooperation is the key to the transfer of knowledge to Africa on the legs of the best brains, triggering an intra-african domino effect.
In addition, it is also a potentially crucial innovation driver given the nature of the academic subject being introduced in the entire African Continent.
Quantum mechanics is the fundamental physical theory that describes the behavior of matter and of light and was led to the full development in the mid-1920s.
Since those years, all modern physics has been based on the QM theories, and today more than ever there can be no future and innovation ignoring those theoretical foundations.
Transferring this knowledge to African universities, where QM teaching is often inadequately taught, means making the academic world leap forward a century, filling the historical gap with a bridge connecting African graduates and researchers to the international scientific community.
In other words, from a cultural and scientific perspective the best practice today involving the MMUST is a key point of arrival and also departure for the further development of the Africa Continent.
