38 African scientists, 17 global experts storm Kumasi as KNUST opens GPOL optics hub

The NYANSAPO Photonics School The laboratory commissioning coincides with the inaugural NYANSAPO Photonics School for Health and Safety, uniting 38 emerging scientists from six African countries—Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Kenya, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe—alongside 17 leading global photonics researchers."With GPOL and the NYANSAPO school, we are establishing the laboratory, the training and the international partnerships that let us as researchers and our students do world-class optics here at home, on problems that matter to Ghana."Ghana is set to take a bold leap into light-based scientific innovation with the official launch of the Ghana Photonics and Optics Laboratory (GPOL) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, at 08:00 GMT at the Amonoo-Neizer IDL Conference Centre.