<div dir="ltr">How can architects and town planners help clinicians to tackle tuberculosis? What is space-time? These are among the questions being explored by African scientists who last week joined together to open the world’s first truly pan-African scientific gathering.<br><br>The Next Einstein Forum (NEF), held in Dakar, Senegal, deserves to become a regular feature of the global science landscape. Its purpose: to publicly celebrate and support some of the most outstanding young researchers active in, or closely tied to, the continent.<div><br><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/africa-s-elite-1.19558?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20160317&spMailingID=50933004&spUserID=NDMyMTMwMzUzNwS2&spJobID=882060414&spReportId=ODgyMDYwNDE0S0">http://www.nature.com/news/africa-s-elite-1.19558?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20160317&spMailingID=50933004&spUserID=NDMyMTMwMzUzNwS2&spJobID=882060414&spReportId=ODgyMDYwNDE0S0</a></div></div>