Another un-attended CD area is the youth capacity in agricultural science within the context of impending effects of climate change. I am not aware if any African university has even looked at revising their curricuale to address new issues due to warming, shifting rain and temperature patterns etc etc. The (agricultural) science being taught and practiced in Africa is reductionistand compartmentalized in nature and needs to re-orient to newer models of inter and trasndisciplinary science as opposed to multi-disciplinary organization of universities. In addition, peer review capacity is extremely lacking in Africa.
We at ICRAF had proposed a skeleton of an intiatives to African Academy of Science back in 2015, but it did not materialize so far.
Dr. Muhammad Mehmood-Ul-Hassan