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Mohammed Bagayogo (1523–1593), eminent scholar from Timbuktu, Mali. Cheick Modibo Diarra (1952–), Malian-born aerospace engineer who contributed to several NASA missions such as Mars Path Finder, the Galileo spacecraft, and the Mars Observer. Ahmad Baba (1556–1627), medieval West African writer, scholar, and political provocateur.
Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. [1]
Umezurike’s academic career began when he attended in the University of Port Harcourt to pursue a master’s degree in English Literature. He completed his master’s thesis in 2014, focusing on the sexual objectification of women in two West African novels; Beyond the Horizon by Ghanaian author Amma Darko , and On Black Sisters’ Street by ...
The university's first Vice-Chancellor was Prof. Valentine A. Aletor, a scholar in Agricultural Biochemistry & Nutrition. [8] During Prof. Aletor's tenure from 2016 to 2019, the university's infrastructure was established, academic programs were formulated, and research initiatives were launched.
Ohio State University (B.A., M.A.) Thandika Mkandawire (10 October 1940 – 27 March 2020) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was a Malawian economist and public intellectual who was a Chair of African Development and professor of African Development at the London School of Economics .
Farid Esack (born 1955 in Wynberg, Cape Town) is a South African Muslim scholar, writer, and political activist known for his opposition to apartheid, his appointment by Nelson Mandela as a gender equity commissioner, and his work for inter-religious dialogue.
His academic career culminated in his appointment as Vice-Principal of the University of Birmingham. [6] Fage retired in 1984 and moved to Wales. He was a joint recipient of ASAUK's "Distinguished Africanist Award" in 2001 and his memoir entitled To Africa and Back was published in 2002. [7] He died, aged 81, at Machynlleth on 6 August 2002.