The Hyphenated Academic

I am a pharmacologist and basic science researcher specialising in the design, preclinical testing, and commercialisation of novel, inexpensive small molecules with anti-inflammatory, anti-metastatic, and/or anti-osteolytic properties. Beyond the lab, I am a data science enthusiast. In 2021, I founded the Africa in Science (AiS) Think-tank, which monitors the scientific output of Africa-based institutions to identify under-researched and neglected topics across the continent. Within the scientific community, I am a committed advocate for early-career researchers. In 2019, I founded and served as the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of www.HubLE.org, the official Learning and Sharing Environment of the IFMRS. As an activist scientist, I am also deeply interested in the influence of culture on academics, particularly those with "hyphenated" or intersecting identities.

The Four Marks and the White Tablet.- The Unseen Curriculum.- The Colour of a Sound.- The Lost Art of Scientific Inquiry.- The Grant Capture Mill.- Black Mice White Mice and the Heresy of Heterogeneity.- The Prison of Early Success.- The Licence to Cull.- The Silent Purge.- The Activist Scientist.- A Philanthropic Prescription.- The Fragmented Academy.- How Meritocracy Became a Dynastic Force Cultural Capital.- The Uncited Shoulders.- The Accent Ceiling.- The Hand Talker s Burden.- The Scientist Superstar.- Suffix Shibboleth.- The Cult of Busy.- The Aristocracy of Aggression.- The Divine Right of Deans.- A Letter to the Professor Aristocrat.- A Letter to the Reader On the Care and Handling of Professor Aristocrats.- The Myth of the Moral Academic.- Academic Heresy.- The Unwelcome Itinerary.- The Pedigree and the Person.- The Poisoned Chalice.- The Black Reviewer.- The Colour of My Mind.- The Wrong Kind of Diversity.- Beyond the EDI Playbook.- The Unpaid Debt.- The Sound of Silence.- A Letter to a Young Scientist.- The Experiment I Could Not Do.- The Secular Dogma.- The Welcoming Table and the Guarded Gate.- A Faith That Had to Die.- The Unsquareable Triangle.- The Unlikely Believers.- A New Model for the Modern University.- The Hyphenated Academic.- The so called escape.- Stop Presenting Start Storytelling.