Sarah Wild is a South African science journalist and author. In November 2017 she became the first African to win a

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Kavli Science Journalism Award. Wild is the author of ''Searching African Skies: The Square Kilometre Array and South Africa’s Quest to Hear the Songs of the Stars'' (2012) and ''Innovation: Shaping South Africa through Science'' (2015), which was published in Afrikaans as ''Innovasie: Hoe wetenskap Suid-Afrika vorm.'' Wild was named the Siemens pan-African Profile Awards for science journalism winner in 2013, and received the Dow Technology and Innovation Reporting award at the 2015 CNN Multichjoice African Journalist of the Year awards. Wild has written for

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Mail & Guardian The ''Mail & Guardian'' is a South African weekly newspaper and website, published by M&G Media in Johannesburg, South Africa. It focuses on political analysis, investigative reporting, Southern African news, local arts, music and popular cult ...

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