Decolonising science: Researchers out to demystify scientific data through African languages

There’s no original isiZulu word for dinosaur. Germs are called amagciwane, but there are no separate words for viruses or bacteria. A quark is ikhwakhi (pronounced kwa–ki); there is no term for red shift. And researchers and science communicators using the language, which is spoken by more than 14 million…