TY - JOUR TI - Leverhulme Inter-Universities Conference on the Teaching of Physics in Africa AU - Denis G. Osborne PY - 1963 JO - The Journal of Modern African Studies DO - 10.1017/s0022278x00001476 UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00001476 AB - The hum of giant transformers and the roar of turbines at the underground power station beside the dam at Kariba, visited by conference members, offered an appropriate illustration to a paper by Dr. J. M. A. Lenihan on ‘Humanity and technology, or: Why teach physics?’; he had stressed that science and technology provide an indispensable stimulus to each other. ER -