Biography:
I have started my second year as a graduate student working toward a master's degree in environmental studies at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (Yale University). Before attending Yale, I worked for 2 years at a Kenyan based pharmaceutical company. I received a BSc. in chemistry from the University of Nairobi (Kenya) and completed coursework for an MSc. in chemistry from the same university.

Research Focus:
Opinions abound that Africa's well-illustrated problems stem from its over reliance on agro-based economic systems. With increasing populations over the decades, more and more people have had to depend on increasingly, diminishing natural resources, resulting into conflicts over them. The current Darfur crisis is a case in point in which it is said that desertification has resulted into significant reduction of pastureland for the nomadic communities living in the region. It is possible that some of these problems could be leveraged through diversification of the continent's economy, with suggestions that the best way to do this is through rapid industrialization. At the same time, it is a well known fact that most of the planet's environmental challenges have been the unintended consequences of industrialization. However, lessons from the North have shown us exactly where the yester-year industrialists went wrong, what they did that they ought not to, or what they ought to have done but didn't do. These lessons form the basis of solutions that I and others believe should inform the decisions for new industrialization (of the developing countries). This is the area of the so called "clean" technology, of which I want to be a contributor, in order to help develop Africa economically.