Black Mathematicians outside North America profiles *
To our records, the first three Mathematics Ph.D. earned by Africans were by the Nigerians Chike Obi (1950), Adegoke Olubummo (1955), and James Ezeilo (1958) who obtained their doctorates in mathematics from British Universities. For more read Mathematics in Nigeria Today. Grace Lele Williams became, in 1963, the first African woman to earn any doctorate in the Mathematical Sciences when she got her Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from the University of Chicago.
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Kokou Abalo Togo, in US Sammani
D. Abdullahi Iya Abubakar, Nigeria Adeniran Adeboye Nigeria in US Samson A. Adeleke Nigeria in the US John O. Adeniran Nigeria John
O. Adeyeye Nigeria Matthew Adigun Nigeria S.A. Adjei Ghana David I. Adu Nigeria |
D. Adu-Gyamfi Ghana Anthony Afuwape Nigeria Adebisi Agboola Nigeria in US Akeem Adesina A. Agboola Nigeria Martial Marie-Paul Agueh Benin in Canada Francis Ahia Ghana Elsayed Mohamed Ahmed Egypt Olatunde Akinlade Nigeria Oluska Akinyele Nigeria in the US Edet P. Akpan Nigeria Daniel A. Akyeampong Ghana Victor Akatsa in US |
Morris Sika Alala Kenya Halima Ali Ethiopia F.K.A. Allotey, Ghana John C. Amazigo, Nigeria Joseph Apaloo South Africa Semere Arai Ethiopia Ghidewon Abay Asmerom Eritrea in US Adris Assani Benin Gabriel Ayine Ghana in US Ezekiel O. Ayoola Nigeria Gerard Michel Awanou Benin in the US Bamidele Awojoyogbe Nigeria |
Cherif Badji Senegal Bola Olujide Balogun, Nigeria, in South Africa Augustin
Banyaga Mampassi Benjamen Senegal Daniel E. Bentil Ghana, in U.S. Francis Benyah Ghana, in Australia Shiferaw Beranu Ethiopia in US Kbenesh W. Blayneh, Ethiopia. in US Thomas B. Bouetou, Cameroons |
Chikh Bouzar Algeria Michel
Nguiffo Boyom Charles E. Chidume Nigeria in Italy Basinyi
Chimitza Busiso Chisala Ethelbert Chukwu Nigeria, in US Dominic
Clemence Galaye Dia Senegal Toka Diagana Mauritania, in US |
Salimatou Diagne Senegal Francisco Antonio Doria Brazil Oumar Dioume Senegal Themba Dube South Africa Heneri Dzinotyiweyi Zimbabwe Kossi Edoh Ghana G.O.S. Ekhaguere Nigeria Boniface Eke G. Eshiwani, Kenya James Ezeilo Nigeria Jean Pierre Ezin, Benin |
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Koffi Fadimba Togo, in US Simeon O. Fatunla Nigeria Pauline Fotso, Cameroon Wilfrid Gangbo Benin, in US J. A. Gbadeyan Berhane T. Ghaim Eritrea, in US Gnancadja Gilles Benin |
Come Goudjo, Benin Carl Graham US, in France Eugene Graham, Jr. US, in France Abba B. Gumel Nigeria, in Canada Norbert Hounkonnou, Benin S. A. Ilori, Nigeria |
Christopher Olutunde Imoru, Nigeria Abdulcadir Issa Ethiopia, in US Julie S. Ivy Antigua, in US Sunday O. Iyahen Benin Samuel N. Jator, Cameroon, in US Overtoun M. Jenda Malawi, in US Clifford Johnson UK, in UK Joel Jolayemi in South Africa |
Wouafo Kamga, Cameroons Llolsten Kaonga Malawi Issoufou Kouada Niger |
Akry Koulibaly Burkina Faso Aderemi Kuku Nigeria N.K. Kofinti |
Matthew Kambule Djivede Armel Kelome Benin in the US Timoléon Crépin Kofané Cameroons Tor Kwembe |
Luhahi Lahu, Zaire Abdelhamid Laouar, Algeria Celestin Lele, Cameroons Lennox S. O. Liverpool Sierra Leone Tanniemola Blackett Liverpool Sierra Leone, in U.K. Gane Samb Lo Senegal Serigne Aliou Lo Senegal |
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Lohoue Sizwe Mabizela South Africa Olowole Makinde, Nigeria in South Africa Aboubakar Maitournam, Niger in France Abdelhamid Meziani, Algeria R.W.P. Masanja, Tanzania |
Gugu Moche, South Africa in US Salah-Eldin A Mohammed, Sudan in US Ali Mostafa Mosharafa, Egypt Eunice Gogo Mphako, Malawi Godgrey Muganda N'Ekwunife Muoneke Mark Muzere |
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Nakoulima Malick Ndiaye, Senegal, in US Janviere Ndirahisha, Burundi, in Belgium Bitjong Bi Ndombol, Cameroon |
Gaston M. N'Guérékata Central African Republic, in US Mary Teuw Niane Senegal Souleymane Niang Senegal G. Edward Njock, Cameroon Guy Martial Nkiet Gabon |
Henri
Hogbe Nlend Ibula Ntantu Zaire Patrice Ntumba Congo, in South Africa Levi Nyagura |
Chike Obi Nigeria Amos Olagunju Nigeria, in US David O. Olagunju Nigeria, in US Wandera Ogana Kenya, in South Africa Carlos Ogouyandjou Benin, in Germany James A. Oguntuase - Nigeria, in Italy |
George
O. Okikiolou Katherine Okikiolu UK,in US Adegoke Olubummo Nigeria Yewande
Olubummo |
P. Onumanyi E. N. Onwuchekwa Kevin Osondu Nigeria Gabriel
A. Oyibo C. Oyuke, Kenya |
Daouda Sangare Mali Hamet Seydi Senegal, in US Jumi Shabani Burundi Adewale Solarin Nigeria Fred Semwogerere Uganda Kenny Koffi Siggini Togo Kewamoi Sogomo Kenya Atu Mensa Taylor Ghana Haroon Tejumola Nigeria Doudou Sakhir Thiam Senegal |
Maguette Thiam Senegal M'Bayang Thiam Senegal Sada Sory Thiam Senegal Barama Toni, Mali|Burkino Faso in Mexico Saliou Toure, Cote D'Ivoire Sekuo Traore, Congo Yohannes
Truneh Ethiopia, Livinus
Uko Nigeria |
Aissa Wade Senegal in US Josephine Guidy Wandja,
A. Williams, Serre Leone Grace Lele Williams Nigeria Herbert Winful, Ghana in US Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Ghana in the US Emmanuel Yomba Cameroons Abdulkeni Zekeria |
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