Olanike Omotola Omolehin
Nigeria 2014
Olanike Omotola Omolehin “managed” her family’s kitchen garden from about age seven until she left home for secondary school. “I was in charge of checking what needed to be done and I would tell my father,” she recalls. “My parents also helped me keep snails and poultry that we used for food in our household.
Striga weed is one of the constraints to Nigeria becoming a country whose economy benefits not only from petroleum, but also from a booming agriculture sector.
Field of Research
I expect only one thing from the AWARD Fellowship— to get connections, connections, connections!” says Omolehin. “There is power in numbers.

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