Building up the African physics community

Since 2010, the African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications has provided education to hundreds of students. From a young age, Yves Kini has been passionate about physics. But growing up in Burkina Faso in West Africa, he was a more than 600-mile drive from the nearest fundamental physics program at the University of Ghana. He learned from books and documentaries instead. "Back home, when I'm talking about physics," he says, "people go, 'Oh, this is the crazy guy, he's talking about ph...