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How far will West Africa's first female astrophysicist take us?

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Burkinabe astrophysicist Marie Korsaga.

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By: Caroline Lachowsky

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How far will West Africa's first female astrophysicist take us?

Meeting with Marie Korsaga, brilliant specialist in galaxy dynamics and new star under the sky of Burkina Faso ✨✨

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(Rebroadcast from January 3, 2022)

We are lucky and delighted to receive a star shining in the sky of Burkina Faso, bringing in its wake a whole galaxy of young researchers from the continent: Marie Korsaga, the first female astrophysicist in West Africa.

Inspiring and inspired, Marie Korsaga works on the dynamics of galaxies through the distribution of the matter that constitutes them, a cutting-edge research that she leads brilliantly on both continents.

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 from Burkina Faso, she is an astrophysicist affiliated with the Joseph Ki-Zerbo University of Ouagadougou and is interested in the study of the dynamics of galaxies.

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