  The concrete vision of having Africa as a leader sharing equivalent
responsibilities and deliverables towards the global scientific societies turn
out to be more obvious by time. Africa is not an exception when it comes to
advanced science and technological grounds. Many challenges do exist and many
others are still accumulating such as establishing cutting-edge large scale
research infrastructures and institutions, reversing the brain-drain dramatic
challenge, addressing local and/or regional concerns (health, environment,
water, human heritage), as well as being a vehicle for industrial development
and growing economy. In addition to bringing forward the African educational
systems, employment status, besides the human capacity building which is
alleged to be the backbone of any advanced society. Into the discussion, and
besides their strong influence on education and advancing science and
technology, as well as, capacity building development, are synchrotron light
sources demonstrating the extensive capabilities with numerous techniques
supporting a wide range of applications of basic science for instance physics,
chemistry and biology, along with applied science aspects including life
sciences such as biomedicine, pharmaceuticals and drug design, in addition to
agriculture, environment, and air and water pollution, besides materials
science and industrial applications, and energy and climate change.
Furthermore, comprehensive insights can be identified and documented for
cultural heritage and archaeology domains.
