Calestous Juma, a Kenyan-born Harvard Kennedy School professor remembered for his contributions to the study of technology and innovation in Africa and for his “boisterous laugh,” died Friday due to ...

Calestous Juma, a prominent global advocate for sustainable development in struggling countries, particularly in his native Africa, could trace his passion for technological innovation to his arduous ...

The Kenya-born Harvard scholar Calestous Juma saw innovations and opportunities bubbling up in African economies where others saw only poverty and despair. Juma, who died this month in his Cambridge, ...

Prominent Kenyan academic Calestous Juma has died in the United States at the age of 64, prompting an outpouring of grief and tributes on social media. “Intellectual giant”, “innovator”, “tireless ...

When Calestous Juma was a boy, flooding created food shortages in his Kenyan village on the shores of Lake Victoria, so his father pioneered the planting of cassava, a starchy root that helped ...

World-renowned Professor Calestous Juma has died at the age of 64 while undergoing treatment in Boston. He was a professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, ...

The revival of Africa's economic fortunes has ushered in a new mood of optimism. 'Africa Rising' has become shorthand for describing emerging trends. It is a hopeful mood that is driven mostly by ...

A Harvard Kennedy School professor wrote a widely disseminated policy paper last year in support of genetically modified organisms at the behest of seed giant Monsanto, without disclosing his ...