peppyluv02:
Wow! These are role models....not the polithievians and entertainers!

well said. ..

they are a lot mor yorubas in academia in diaspora that your list did not include.

My eternal Respect go to all those Genius representing Ndigbo, Nigeria& Africa and pioneering advancements in sciences, and putting the black race in its proper place in the world.

tonychristopher:
IGBOS AGAIN TAKING MAJORITY...WHY WHY WHY


THOUGHT THEY ARE TRADERS

that's what you keep thinking till we out class you in every aspect of life.

These kind of people make you fall in love with education so much. The kind of love I have for knowledge, may God never let that fire die in me!!! I tell my peers and everyone who cares to listen all the time "See you all at the top!"

omo see brain box them.... real role models.... ama be like yall someday...

BrosPeters:
Very skewed list. The OP purposely put more Igbos on the list

I am an Igbo man living in America and there is ABSOLUTELY no way that there are more Igbo academics than Yoruba academics in Diaspora- that is Yoruba territory!!!!

^^^Just had a peek at your profile.....Igbo indeed!

All your posts are tribal related...and almost half of them have been hidden!

would join the list very soon

Looking for a way to console themselves..the arrangement of the list shows what you intend from the post. Making the last 6 profiles from a particular religion,shows where ur emphasis lies. But mind you,we all know the real heroes and villians when it comes to positives in the diaspora.

Saved2Serve:
[size=18pt]IGBO KWENU!!! WARR!![/size]

Sharaaaap

Emmanuel Ekuwem, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Sc., PhD, MIEEE, MISOC

Emmanuel E. Ekuwem is an alumnus of Obafemi Awolowo University (University of Ife) Ile-Ife, he holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering Physics and two Masters Degree in Physics and Electronic & Electrical Engineering respectively as well as a PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

Associate lecturer at International Centre for Theoretical Physic - ICTP, Trieste, Italy

UNESCO’s ICTP (Trieste, Italy) Regional Coordinator of the Nigerian Universities Network (NuNet).

Visiting Consultant to the ICTP under the umbrella of the Aeronomy Laboratory and Programme on Training and System Development in Networking and Radio communication.

Consultant to UNESCO (Nigeria office) on the IT component of UNDAF.

He was a Fellow of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)/TRIL Programme of the ICTP on Intelligent Real-Time Computer-based Data Communication.

Was an Associate of the UNESCO’s ICTP for three years?
A winner of the Third World Academy of Science (TWAS) award for Research on the effects of Meteorological phenomena on Radio Communication (VHF/UHF) in the lower Troposphere.

Principal Investigator in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)/R experiments on radio propagation phenomena in non-ionized media (in Africa).

He is one of the finest ICT experts the world has ever produced

IGBO kwenu!!

Co-Director of the Texas Children’s Fetal Center - Texas Children's Hospital
Attending Surgeon, Pediatric Surgery Service, Texas Children's Hospital
Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine
Medical School

Obafemi Awolowo University Medical School, Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery, 1988
Internship

Howard University College of Medicine, Pediatrics, 1991
Residency

Medical College of Virginia, General Surgery, 1993
Medical College of Virginia, General Surgery, 1998
Fellowship

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pediatric Surgery, 2001
From Dr. Olutoye

Dr. Olutoye is Co-Director of the Texas Children’s Fetal Center and fetal surgery team member, as well as a general pediatric surgeon. Dr. Olutoye received his M.D. from Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, in 1988 and his Ph.D. in anatomy from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., in 1996. He completed his residency in general surgery at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, Virginia Commonwealth University, and his fellowship in pediatric surgery at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Olutoye is a member of the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society and is a Fellow of the Surgical Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics and American College of Surgeons; he is also a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons.

Dr. Olutoye has specialized clinical expertise in fetal and neonatal surgery, with specific interest in congenital diaphragmatic hernia and complex wounds. Dr. Olutoye’s research interests include understanding the role of the fetal inflammatory response in scarless fetal wound healing, development of animal models of congenital anomalies, in utero correction of severe congenital malformations, and the study of endothelial-leukocyte and endothelial-tumor cell interactions with a goal to better understand the mechanisms of tumor metastasis.

Dr. Olutoye is certified by the American Board of Surgery in Surgery and Pediatric Surgery.

Story for d godz me na Dangote/ Bill Gate b my role model

BrosPeters:
Very skewed list. The OP purposely put more Igbos on the list

I am an Igbo man living in America and there is ABSOLUTELY no way that there are more Igbo academics than Yoruba academics in Diaspora- that is Yoruba territory!!!!

Igbo man indeed.

Atleast, edit all your posts before telling lies.

Brilliant minds.

Why are some people bitter about the list?

and nobody wil say dat igbos ar much in dis list.....when u talk of drugs traffickin, u wil c som tribal bigots sayin all sort of rubbish about d igbo nation


#proudlyigboboy

This is inspiring....these are the type of things we should be seeing on FP and not some clowns called celebrities.

driand:
that's what you keep thinking till we out class you in every aspect of life.

that is what i am saying, they keep saying that igbos are traders and my uncle has a degree in Mech Eng and he has his Auto parts firm ands I am educated very soon I will dump working for people and float my own firm



Why do the sophisticated one say Igbos are traders and not educated, why why why..why must igbos top it all..even after fighting war

The world loves a winner but that winner was once a loser who refused to quit . /p5sIGP-bm

Their mind has always been bitter

eaglechild:
Brilliant minds.

Why are some people bitter about the list?

Where is Prof Onuorah (Nwa Nenwe)of Canton University Ohio .

Please I know Professor Godwin Chukwu one on one. The man there is not him. I initially at early stage of my life wanted to be like these men, but indeed all they have is all these fellows and titles. As an engineer The industry is better for me . Not just as an empoyee but as an employer of labour. I am speaking for myself. I have been with these acdemia in different parts of the world and honestly,the industry man has more money in the bank. Also you can put ideas into products

missghost:

What about Professor Pius Adesanmi

PIUS ADESANMI is a Professor of English and African Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. A widely cited commentator on African affairs, he has lectured widely in Universities in Africa, Europe, and North America. One of Nigeria’s contemporary leading public intellectuals and celebrated columnists. Adesanmi is also a writer. He is the internationally acclaimed winner of the inaugural Penguin Prize for African Writing (2010) in the non-fiction category with his book, You’re not a Country, Africa. His first book, The Wayfarer and Other Poems, won the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize in 2001.

Adesanmi, the last speaker of TEDxEuston 2014, did not disappoint and eloquently rallied the audience to consider this: “Africa is the forward that everyone else must face"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofrxl7zDh_Q


He is a prodigious public affairs commentator. Pius' “Africa is not a Continent” won the 2013Prize for African Writing. B.A. University of Ilorin, Nigeria, 1992 M.A. French, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1998 Ph.D. French Studies, University of British Columbia, 2002

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/author/pius-adesanmi



Research interests

Postcolonial writing and social media
African & Black Diasporic literatures and Cultures in English and French
Popular Culture, Street Culture in Africa
Postcolonial and cultural theory
Third World feminist discourses
African Language literature (Yoruba)
Current Research

I have a very eclectic research and writing scope, ranging from recent trends in theoretical approaches to African and postcolonial literatures to new political and cultural life-worlds in Africa and the Black Diaspora. My scholarship overlaps with an active career as an African public intellectual interested in a broad range of issues such as the role of culture in shaping citizenship, subjectivity, human rights, identity, and the environment in ex-colonial societies affected globalization and fragile modern statehood. Lately, I’ve been reflecting, studying, and writing about the social media revolution in Africa and the postcolonial world. I’ve been exploring how social media affects the materiality of literature and culture, how it affects our understanding of the (literary) text, and inflects old categories of postcolonial knowledge and cultures. With the blogosphere now a universe of interactions, allowing postcolonial literati and culturati to produce new forms of texts and meaning irrespective of location, when/where is home? When/where is diaspora? My forthcoming book in 2014, Africa’s Many Lovers, is a collection of some fifteen keynote lectures that I have delivered in recent years, exploring these and many other issues.

Honours/Nominations

Winner, The Penguin Prize for African Writing (Non-Fiction), 2010

Nominated for a 2012 Capital Educators’ Award.

The Erasmus Teaching Award, Penn State University, Spring 2006

Association of Nigerian Authors’ Poetry Prize. 2001.

Publications

Book

You are Not a Country, Africa (2011)

(Winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing)

Edited Volumes

Pius Adesanmi, Thomas Hale, and Irene D’Almeida (eds) “Theories and Literatures of Africa” A special issue of Comparative Literature Studies (Spring 2009)

Pius Adesanmi and Chris Dunton (eds) “Third Generation Nigerian Novel” Special Issue of Research in African Literatures 39.2 (Summer 2008)

Pius Adesanmi and Chris Dunton (eds) “New Nigerian Writing” Special Issue of English in Africa 32.1 (May 2005)

Pius Adesanmi and Georges Hérault (eds) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Youth, Street Culture, and Urban Violence in Africa. Ibadan: IFRA and African Book Builders, 1997. 419 pages

Recent Essays (select)

“Ngugi and the Postcolonial.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngugi wa Thiong’o.” Ed. Oliver Lovesey. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2012. 53-59.

“Arrested Nationalism, Imposed Transnationalism, and the African Literature Classroom: A Nigerian Writer’s Learning Curve.” West African Migrations: Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century. Eds. Mojubaolu Okome and Olufemi Vaughn. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 247-261

“Reshaping Power and the Public Sphere: The Political Voices of African Writers.” Reframing Contemporary Africa: Politics, Economics, and Culture in the Contemporary Era. Eds. Peyi Soyinka-Airewele and Rita Kiki-Edozie. Washington: CQ Press, 2010 (110-128)

Invited Lectures and Keynotes (selection from 2011-2013 only)

“Dowry: Managing Africa’s Many Lovers.” Keynote Lecture Delivered at the Annual Conference of the African Studies Course Union, University of Toronto, February 15, 2013.

“The Hunt for Francophonism.” Lecture delivered at the Anglophone-Francophone Cultural Conversations Conference Convened by the African Studies Programme and the Department of Comparative Literature, Penn State University, USA, February 27, 2013.

“The Malian Crisis: Causes and Consequences for the West African Sub-Region.” Panel Convened by the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa, March 13, 2013.

“I’m Endowed: Hip-Hop, Twittertainment, and Black Musical Internationalism.” Lecture delivered at the Cultural Transfers series of the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture and the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis, Carleton University, January 26, 2012.

“Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: Reconsidering a Classic.” Lectured delivered at the Vanderbilt History Seminar, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, March 19, 2012.

“When is the African Diaspora in Canada?”. Keynote Lecture delivered at a Forum convened by the Africa Society of Guelph, the Department of History, and the School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, March 24, 2012.

“America, My Africa”. Lecture delivered at the Bowdoin Africana Speakers Series, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 9, 2012.

“Face Me, I Book You: Writing Africa’s Agency in the Age of the Netizen”. Keynote Lecture delivered at the 38th annual convention of the African Literature Association, Dallas, Texas, April 12, 2012.

“What Does Nigerian Literature Secure?” Keynote lecture delivered at the annual convention of the Association of Nigeria Authors, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, November 9, 2012

“Nigeria 101 for the Canadian Policy Maker.” Lecture delivered to the Africa Study Group, Ottawa, Canada, March 2011

“The Impala Generation: Youth Culture and the Imperatives of Democracy in Nigeria in the Age of the Arab Protests.” Lecture delivered at a colloquium convened jointly by the Nigerian Advancement Institute and the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, April 2, 2011.

“Capitalism and Memory: Of Golf Courses and Massage Parlors in Badagry, Nigeria.” Keynote lecture delivered at the annual conference of the Stanford Forum for African Studies, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. Saturday, October 29, 2011

“Social Media, the Public Sphere, and the Anxieties of Power in Nigeria.” Lecture delivered at the Keynote Speaker Series, SUNY Oswego’s Artswego Series, State University of New York at Oswego, November 2, 2011

“Africa is People, Nigeria is Nigerians: Provocations on Post-Mendicant Economies”. Lecture delivered at Aga Khan Foundation’s Symposium, “Africa’s Promise, Canada’s Opportunity”, Ottawa, Monday, November 28, 2011.

https://carleton.ca/english/people/adesanmi-pius/

UPON ALL THE BIG BIG DEGREES,GIVE DEM CHANCE TO SERVE,DEN THE REAL NIAJA IN DEM GO SHOW FACE...EXAMPLE...NGOZI,UNA MONEY MINISTER..DEGREE NOR REMOVE THE PIG IN U....PIG NA PIG... ...

Which people come remain for our universities here ooo....... Brain drain

To the making of many books,there is no end. #Dat Godwin Chukwu no be former minister of health?

this list is not complete without PROF.AKIN ADESOKAN A SENIOR LECTURER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA .

driand:
Why are 70% of the entire list my brethren, IGBO unu siri Ike.

because d op wanted it dat way. We can see beyond a pretence

Our country was obviously not conducive for them. Great people. These are the kinds of people our leaders need around,people who know their onions,proud of them!

KEEP ON MAKING US PROUD