Her Story
In Conversation
Creating a Portrait
A Scientist:
Tebello
Nyokong
 
"Everybody is clever in his or her own discipline. I completely object to the idea that there is anybody special in this world."
The Sheperdess
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Tebello Nyokong
 
Tebello Nyokong grew up herding sheep
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Tebello Nyokong

Tebello Nyokong grew up herding sheep

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In Conversation
Tebello Nyokong
 
Scientist, researcher and Rhodes University professor Tebello Nyokong talks with filmmaker and photographer Adrian Steirn about how she went from shepherding sheep to become one of Africa's pre-eminent scientists.
 
 
 
 
Creating
A Portrait
 
A series of behind the scenes images reflecting the 21 icons team at work.
The portrait features Nyokong in a field dressed in traditional garb and surrounded by sheep, but over her dress she wears the white coat of a chemist. It is a representation of her standing as an award-winning and internationally recognised scientist who is at the cutting edge of cancer research, yet also acknowledges her younger years in Lesotho.