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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.
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.
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Malik Maaza was born in Algeria in 1963. [3] [4] He attained his bachelor's degree in solid-state physics from the University of Oran in 1987.He pursued a master's degree in photonics at Paris VI (today's Pierre and Marie Curie University) in 1988, followed by a PhD in neutron optics in 1991 at the same institute.
Johann Heinrich Barth (/ b ɑːr θ, b ɑːr t /; [1] [2] German:; 16 February 1821 – 25 November 1865) was a German explorer of Africa and scholar.. Barth is thought to be one of the greatest of the European explorers of Africa, as his scholarly preparation, ability to speak and write Arabic, learning African languages, and character meant that he carefully documented the details of the ...
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. . Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and other ...
She is the subject of several studies, including Jean Boyd's The Caliph's Sister: Nana Asma'u 1793–1865: Teacher, Poet and Islamic Leader (1989), described as an "important book" that "provides a good read for the nonspecialist willing to discard common stereotypes about women in Africa", [17] and One Woman's Jihad: Nana Asma'u, Scholar and ...
Africa Spectrum (also formerly known as Afrika Spectrum) is an interdisciplinary double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal concentrating on current political, sociological, historical, and development matters in Africa. [3] [4] It was founded in 1966 and was the only German academic journal exclusively devoted to Africa.