Interview with Marian Asantewah Nkansah

Winner of award for women in science in the developing world discusses growing up in a family of eight in Ghana and ‘feeling like Christmas’ when she is on a podium

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March 18, 2021

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March 22, 2021

John Morgan

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Marian Asantewah Nkansah is associate professor of chemistry at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana.

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