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Greatest African mathematiciens:Dr Katherine Okikiolu

Greatest African mathematiciens:Dr Katherine OkikioluKatherine Adebola okikiolu (b. in 1965), is half Nigerian and half British. She is a brilliant mathematician and is currently an associate professor of Mathematics at the University of California. She becomes the first Black to win Mathematics' most prestigious young person's award, the "Sloan research Fellowship".

Katherine Adebola Okikiolu was born in England in 1965. The schools she went to include Cambridge University and University of California at Los Angeles. At Cambridge University, she received her BA in Mathematics, and went to graduate school at University of California at Los Angeles where she earned her Ph.D. At UCLA, she worked with two others to solve "solve a problem concerning asymptotics of determinants of Toeplitz operators on the sphere and a conjecture of Peter Jones, characterizing subsets of rectifiable curves in Euclidean n-space and she has been exhibiting first rate mathematical abilties."

Two years later, she was a teacher and an assistant professor at Princeton University for another two years. Right after, she was a visiting assistant professor at MIT. In 1997, she became a resident of the United States. In June of the same year, Okikiolu became the first Black to get the Sloan Research Fellowship, the most prestigious award for young math researchers in the US. She's an associate professor of mathematics at University of California at San Diego.

Her family is also very math oriented. Her mother is a high school mathematics teacher and her dad George Okikiolu who is from Nigeria, is a mathematician.and inventor He has written more mathematics papers than any African mathematician. Katherine Okikiolu is married to mathematician Hans Lindblad.

Okikiolu's achievements and honors include earning a Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles and doing postdoctoral work at Princeton's Institute of Advanced Study and MIT. In 1997, she was awarded the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship and was a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (500.000 dollars). In 2001, she became the first black woman to publish an article in the Annals of Mathematics, a journal of research papers in pure mathematics founded in 1884. As a research mathematician, Okikiolu has achieved success and contributed to the development of mathematical ideas in the twenty-first century.


Source:http://www.africansuccess.org/visuFiche.php?id=438&lang=en
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/madgreatest.html
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#Posted on Thursday, 05 May 2011 at 11:57 AM

Greatest African Mathematiciens:Dr Wilfrid Gangbo


Greatest African Mathematiciens:Dr Wilfrid Gangbo

Dr Wilfrid Gangbo
In just nine years from a Ph.D. to a Full Professor - this is incredible. Wilfrid Gangbo was born in Benin and in 1992 earned a Ph.D. from Swiss Federale Institute of Technology. Among his twelve papers is his 1996 The geometry of optimal transportation remains the single publication by a Black in the Mittag-Leffler Institute's Acta Mathematica, one of the world's strongest mathematics journals. In 2001 he was appointed Full Professor by Georgia Institute of Technology
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#Posted on Thursday, 05 May 2011 at 11:48 AM

Edited on Sunday, 08 May 2011 at 2:18 AM

Abbe Vincent Mulago-The father of Bantou Philosophy

Abbe Vincent Mulago-The father of Bantou Philosophy
Phd in Theology,Abbe Vincent Mulago was the first chancellor of U.C.B (Universite Catholic de Bukavu).
He is the father of Bantou philosophy...
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#Posted on Wednesday, 04 May 2011 at 5:34 PM

Dr John Sentamu

Dr John Sentamu
John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu (pronounced: SEN-ta-moo; born 10 June 1949) is the 97th Archbishop of York, Metropolitan of the province of York, and Primate of England. He is the second most senior cleric in the Church of England, after the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.

Sentamu was born in 1949 in a village near Kampala, Uganda, the sixth of thirteen children. He read law (LlB.) at Makerere University, Kampala, and practised as an advocate of the High Court of Uganda. Sentamu practised both law at the Bar and at the Bench until 1974. He incurred the wrath of the dictator Idi Amin because of his judicial independence and was locked up for 90 days, three weeks after his marriage. In a speech in 2007, he described how during that time he had been "kicked around like a football and beaten terribly", saying "the temptation to give up hope of release was always present".[3] In 1974 he fled to the United Kingdom.

He read theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge (BA 1976, MA 1979, PhD 1984). He trained for the priesthood at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, being ordained a priest in 1979. His doctoral thesis is entitled Some aspects of soteriology, with particular reference to the thought of J.K. Mozley, from an African perspective
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#Posted on Friday, 29 April 2011 at 10:00 AM

Dikembe Mutombo

Dikembe MutomboDikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo[1] (born June 25, 1966), commonly referred to as Dikembe Mutombo, is a retired Congolese American professional basketball player, who last played for the Houston Rockets of the NBA. He was the oldest player in the NBA at the time of his most recent season.[2]

The 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m), 260-pound (120 kg; 19 st) center is commonly referred to as one of the greatest shot blockers and defensive players of all time, winning the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award four times. On January 10, 2007, he surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the second most prolific shot blocker, in terms of career blocked shots, in NBA history, behind only Hakeem Olajuwon. He is a member of the Luba ethnic group and speaks English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Tshiluba and four other African languages.[3] In the second game of the first round of the 2009 NBA playoffs, Mutombo suffered a knee injury that would keep him out for the remainder of the postseason. Soon after the injury, Mutombo announced he had played his last games in the NBA
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#Posted on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 at 9:30 AM

Professor Valentin Yves Mudimbe

Professor Valentin Yves Mudimbe
is one of the most prominent, incisive and celebrated postcolonial intellectuals from Sub-Saharan Africa. He has held academic positions and professorships in Belgium, France, the Democratic Republic of Congo and in the USA (Haverford, Stanford and Duke) and has been invited as guest speaker in many universities and research institutions around the world. The significance of his scholarly output (written in French but also in English) has been applauded and explored by leading postcolonial scholars such as Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak or Johannes Fabian. Professor Mudimbe's work lies at the cross-roads between different disciplines: cultural anthropology (and its critique), African philosophy, critical theory and historiography. This versatility makes him an ideal candidate for the IAS short-term visiting fellowship as his work appeals to a wide range of audiences in the humanities and social sciences.

Professor Mudimbe's research has focused on the relationship between European imperialism (particularly in Central Africa) and the development and gradual institutionalisation (in the West) of the human sciences. In this long-standing reflection, Professor Mudimbe has paid particular attention to the epistemological links between social anthropology (from its nascent stage in the nineteenth century) and the development of a particular brand of evolutionist racism (in the colonies but also in the West). These ideas were expounded in his award-winning The Invention of Africa (1988), an essay widely regarded as being as significant (in African studies) as Edward Said's Orientalism. His research does not, however, only focus on the colonial period. Professor Mudimbe has also devoted a large part of his intellectual production to the postcolonial present and to the difficulty for African scholars to operate outside the disciplinary and paradigmatic boundaries set by North-American and European academia. This reflection has been underpinned by a critical dialogue between major exponents of 'French thought' (Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault and Lévi-Strauss to name but three) and African thinkers (LS Senghor, Aimé Césaire or Cheikh Anta Diop). Valentin Mudimbe is also a noted classicist. He has widely written on the construction of racial and cultural 'otherness' in Ancient Rome and Greece and has, notably via Pliny the Younger and Herodotus, investigated the representation of black Africans (see The Idea of Africa, 1994) in classical antiquity. Professor Mudimbe is also an award-winning poet and novelist. His four novels (published between 1973 and 1988) have all been translated into English and offer a rare glimpse into Congolese life under the Mobutu-led dictatorship.

Source:http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/visitingfellows/0910alphabetaorder/mudimbe/
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#Posted on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 at 9:22 AM

Birago Ishmael Diop

Birago Ishmael DiopBirago Ishmael Diop (Ouakam, Senegal; December 11, 1906 - Dakar, Senegal; November 25, 1989) was a Senegalese poet and storyteller, active as a writer in the Négritude movement in the 1930s, as well as a veterinarian and diplomat.

He was born in Ouakam, a small village near Dakar. In 1920 he went to study at Lycée Faidherbe in Saint-Louis, and later on he went to study veterinary medicine at the University of Toulouse, and worked as a veterinary surgeon for the French colonial government in several West African countries. Throughout his civil service career, he collected and reworked Wolof folktales, and also wrote poetry, memoirs, and a play. He served as first Senegalese ambassador to Tunisia from 1960 to 1964

Source:http://www.africansuccess.org/visuFiche.php?id=85&lang=en
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#Posted on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 at 9:13 AM

PhD Théophile Obenga

PhD Théophile Obenga
Théophile Obenga was born in Congo, Equatorial Africa. He was educated in Belgium, France, and the United States. He is considered as one of the foremost students and followers of the late Cheikh Anta Diop. In the preface to Obenga's most renowned book Africa in Antiquity, Diop introduced him as follows: "Obenga is a polyvalent scholar with a threefold training as a philosopher, historian and linguist and knowing Greek, Latin, French. English, Italian, and practicing Arabic and Syriac. More importantly, he is the first Black African of his generation able to read the pharaonic language in the texts: he holds a degree in Egyptology and is a member of the Societe Francaise d'Egyptologie". During the, UNESCO Colloquium on "The Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Decipherment of Meroitic Writing" held in Cairo (January 28-February 3. 1974). Diop and Obenga's brilliant and eloquent demonstration on the African essence of Black pharaonic Egypt's culture and civilization was a major landmark in African studies and sanctioned the death of cultural imperialism's long lasting attempt to whiten ancient Egypt. Under Marien NGouabi's government in the Congo, Obenga was Director of the Ecole Normale Superieure where he created an outstanding method for teaching African historiography and later became Minister for Foreign Affairs. He is presently Director General of the International Center for Bantu Studies, the only high-tech African-oriented database and cultural center of its kind focusing on the Egypto-Bantu world and head-quartered in Libreville, Gabon. Obenga is the author of a massive scientific production partly published by Presence Africaine and including, in particular, Precolonial Central Africa, Zaire: Traditional Civilizations and Modern Culture. Stele for the Future (poetry), For A New History, Traditional Literature of the Mbochi, and The Bantu: Languages, Peoples and Civilizations. He just completed a major study on The African Philosophy in Pharaonic Times, 2780-330 Before the Christian Era, excerpts from which are published for the first time in English in this issue

Source:http://www.africawithin.com/obenga/obenga_bio.htm
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#Posted on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 at 9:07 AM

THOMAS SANKARA

THOMAS SANKARAThomas Isidore Noël Sankara (December 21, 1949 – October 15, 1987) was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, Pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987.[1][2] Viewed as a charismatic and iconic figure of revolution, he is commonly referred to as "Africa's Che Guevara

Sankara, who is often referred to as "Africa's Che Guevara",[1] emulated Guevara (1928–1967) in both style and substance. Stylistically, Sankara emulated Guevara by preferring to wear a starred beret and military fatigues, living ascetically with few possessions, and keeping a minimal salary once assuming power. Both men also considered themselves allies of Fidel Castro (Sankara was visited by Castro in 1987), spoke fluent French, are well known for having rode motorcycles, and are often cited as effectively utilizing their charisma to motivate their followers. Substantively, Guevara and Sankara were both Marxist revolutionaries, who believed in armed revolution against imperialism and monopoly capitalism, denounced financial neo-colonialism before the United Nations, held up agrarian land reform and literacy campaigns as key parts of their agenda, and utilized revolutionary tribunals and CDR's against counter-revolutionaries. Both men were also murdered in their late thirties (Guevara 39 / Sankara 38) by opponents, with Sankara coincidentally giving a speech marking and honoring the 20th anniversary of Che Guevara's October 9, 1967 execution, one week before his own assassination on October 15, 1987.[

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara#.22Africa.27s_Che_Guevara.22
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#Posted on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 at 9:02 AM

Julius Nyerere: The conscience of Africa

Julius Nyerere: The conscience of Africa One of Africa's most respected figures, Julius Nyerere (1922 — 1999) was a politician of principle and intelligence. Known as Mwalimu or teacher he had a vision of education that was rich with possibility.
Julius Nyerere: A vision of self-reliance for Africa

Dr Julius Nyerere, who has died aged 77, led the former British protectorate of Tanganyika to independence in 1961, becoming its first prime Minister and later its first president.
His country was withdrawn from British rule without violence and with comparatively little racial bitterness. Dr Nyerere acquired in the process the reputation of being a moderate, an idea that was encouraged by his personal modesty and his preference for Western values.

In both Africa and the West his prestige, when he first became President, stood high. It was seriously shaken, however, early in 1964, by a mutiny of the Tanganyikan Army that spread to other parts of East Africa and was only put down with British help.

Later, as President of Tanzania, formed by the joining of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, Nyerere instituted a one-party system, together with other forms of government that smacked of a police state.

Yet he always defended his position declaring that Tanzanians had far more freedom under his rule than they had ever had under the British, and that the one-party system was vital for stability.


Source:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/441768.stm
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#Posted on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 at 8:57 AM

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