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The African Studies Centre (Dutch: Afrika-Studiecentrum) is a scientific institute in the Netherlands that undertakes social-science research on Africa with the aim of promoting a better understanding of historical, current and future social developments in Sub-Saharan Africa. The centre is an interfaculty institute of Leiden University.
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.
In 2009 Banyaga was elected a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, and in 2015 he was named a Distinguished Senior Scholar by Pennsylvania State University. [ 5 ] He has made significant contributions in symplectic topology, especially on the structure of groups of diffeomorphisms preserving a symplectic form ( symplectomorphisms ).
He holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Chemistry, University of Ilorin, and an MBA, University of Leicester, UK. [5] [6] In 2011, Omotowa was appointed as the CEO and managing director of Nigeria LNG, the country's leading liquefied natural gas company. Omotowa previously served on the board of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group. [7] [8] [9 ...
The Nigeria Prize for Literature was established in 2004 and is worth USD100,000 in Prize money. The Prize is considered by literary critics as the biggest and most prestigious in Africa and has been commended for helping discover literary talent [1] although some emphasize that more needs to be done to help the African writer. [2]
Joint winner of 2007 NLNG (The Nigeria Prize for Literature) in the Children Category with children's novel My Cousin Sammy – 2007. Honoured with Long & Distinguished Service Award of the University of Lagos on 19 April 2007. Fire from the Holy Mountain (children's novel) won the ANA/Atiku Abubakar Children's Literature Prize – 2008.
Professor Jerry Agada (born Jerry Anthony Agada // ⓘ, 11 November 1952 – 22 December 2020) was a Nigerian educationist, scholar, author, hairman [of [Benue State]] Civil Service Commission, former president of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), the first Fellow of the Association of Nigerian Authors in Central Nigeria, the vice-chairman of Fidei Polytechnic, Gboko and former ...
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 ...