Tusker Twende Kazi’s Main Man Humphrey Kayange Get’s Profiled By CNN

Tusker’s ground breaking show twende kazi came to quite the climactic end! And Humphrey Kayange got to enjoy the best of what East Africa has to offer. But the hype didn’t end there as CNN got in on some Twende Kazi action and profiled the prolific rugby player. Check it out below:

 

 

 

By day, he dons a white lab coat. At the weekend, he terrorizes opposition teams in his bright red outfit.

Even Humphrey Kayange struggles to define himself. On his Twitter biography, he asks: “Rugby player/research officer or is it the other way around?”

In one walk of life, he is trying to help rid the world of disease as he works on new antibiotics at a British university. In another, he is one of the stars of the rugby sevens circuit, despite coming from a country best known for producing long-distance runners.

For all his prowess both on and off the field, his nickname perhaps lacks imagination — “Tall” — although at 6 foot 6 inches it must be said he lives up to the billing.

While he has bedeviled opposition defenses on the  HSBC IRB Sevens circuit, it is his less heralded work behind closed doors at Bristol University that is of the greater consequence.

Broadly, his studies come under the banner of chemistry and math, but more specifically it is a research project on antibiotics.

“It’s a massive project at the university,” Kayange explains. “We’re all trying to foresee antibiotics and developing resistance, so we’re looking into developing new drugs.

“It’s more to do with bacterial infections and it’s a very slow and steady process.”

The 31-year-old says the research is funded by British pharmaceutical multinational GlaxoSmithKline, which trials the compounds and active ingredients that the chemists provide.

“There’s been some positive results but it’s a long process,” he says….

 

 

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