Image of that daring adventure he was in he was the best publicist a machine ever. Few know him as well as she touts country of wolf is an expert on alexander from whom bolts life and adventure her biography reintroduced the great naturalist to a new generation of readers and now the world is marking his 250th birthday we met up with andrea wulf at the Royal Institution in london one of britains foremost establishment for scientific education and research. Full scale. Over a decade on the traces of alexander from home shes written 2 books about him including an illustrated album about his famous expedition to south and Central America it depicts the hardships he endured but also his fascination encounters and discoveries and it includes his drawings which fundamentally changed europes view of the americas. Q i think it was for sure one of the greatest scientists of previous times of all times well he was the most famous scientist of his time and i think hes undergoing a little bit of a
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Elections even advised to support us not to vote for the governing party so this whole dispute about whether god will be laid to rest we can these shows a the a division that you can that is still visible here in zimbabwe or around the ruling party we mentioned already there are many people paying tribute to one copy others are just staying away he was of course of very controversial figure so what kind of legacy does he mean. Well absolutely on the one hand hes seen as a liberation hero somebody who fought the white minority rule but then theres also this other side of the story of Robert Mugabe who basically run down this country in the almost 40 years off his presidency the economy went completely down it is still struggling a quarter of zimbabweans left the country because of this and of course we also still must remember the human rights abuses that were committed on the his watch im sitting in harare thank you. Lets get a check now of some of the other stories making news around