Is there a luckier child than Canasius Kanangire, the Executive Director of the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF)?
Born a refugee in Bukavu, Congo where his parents fled Rwanda's ethnic skirmishes of the late 1950s, he scrapped by to go to school. He beat great odds to earn a Master's degree in Freshwater Ecology from the University of Namur, Belgium, and a doctorate in Aquatic Sciences.