Rashid Ibrahim

Blogger, Concerned citizen, Educator/Teacher, Environmentalist, Idea generator, Journalist, Parent, Photographer, Scientist, World traveler

Hi there. My name is Rashid I H Ibrahim, from the Sudan. As you see on the left side, I have been travelling around for some time. All my travels were for career development. I majored in Biology, Botany. More specifically, I started in plant Cytogenetics. I studied, counted, measured, drawn and photoed the chromosomes of plants based on home made (by myself) slides, light microscopes equipped with camera lucida and digital or film camera. Then I shifted to traditional or Mendelian Genetics. There I returned to my roots where I used to help my grandparents grow their fields of cotton, peanuts, tomatoes, sorghum, wheat, chickpeas, coriander, black-eyed beans, red pepper, cucumber, bumpkin, okra, and so on. Except that I have learnt how to cross and back-cross my specialty plant cotton, on which my grandparents and all people of Gezira area in Sudan spent their lives growing it. They grew, manually harvested, and transported cotton, paid for all that, and before that paid for the seeds, insecticides, pesticides, land ploughing, water and people who used to administer them how to do that!!! The British, followed by the (Britishisized) Sudanese who took advantage of that British system and kept the same system that benefited them and left my grandparents, their families and all people of Gezira suffer from Malaria and belharzia (Schistosomiasis)! These people of Gezira couldn't build descent houses or educate their kids, while those administered them enjoyed all! I followed that by another leap into Plant Molecular Biology, Genomics and some Bioinformatics. I continued on the same plant; cotton that was the cause of all the mind pain for me and the physical and moral pain for all the wise people in Gezira area!!!.

Knowledge

Education for Africa and democracy for Arab World.

Plant Cytogenetics, Plant Genetics, Plant Genomics, Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Tissue Culture

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