You probably never heard of them. They both are one of Nigeria's brightest minds in Technology. Since people in the tech industry are not rock stars, mainstream media may not feature their stories as much. One is Igbo, while the other is Yoruba.
Here is their Wikipedia profiles:
Emeagwali
Philip Emeagwali (born in 1954) is a Nigerian -born engineer, mathematician ,
computer scientist and geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989
Gordon Bell Prize , a prize from the IEEE, for his use of a Connection Machine
supercomputer to help analyze petroleum fields.
Biography
Emeagwali was born in Akure , Nigeria on 23 August 1954. [1] His early schooling
was suspended in 1967 as a result of the Nigerian Civil War. At 14 years, he
served in the Biafran army. After the war he completed high-school equivalency
through self-study. He travelled to the United States to study under a
scholarship following completion of a correspondence course at the University
of London [citation needed ]. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics
from Oregon State University in 1977. During this time, he worked as a civil
engineer at the Bureau of Land Reclamation in Wyoming. He later moved to
Washington DC, receiving in 1986 a master's degree from George Washington
University in ocean and marine engineering, and a second master's in applied
mathematics from the University of Maryland .[2] [dead link][ citation needed ]
He is married to Dale Brown Emeagwali, a noted African-American
microbiologist .[3]
Award
Emeagwali received a $1,000 [4] [dead link][ citation needed ] 1989 Gordon Bell
Prize , based on an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer for
computational fluid dynamics (oil-reservoir modeling). He won in the "price/
performance" category, with a performance figure of 400 Mflops /$1M,
corresponding to an absolute performance of 3.1 Gflops. The other recipient of
the award, who won in the "peak performance" category for a similar
application of the CM-2 to oil-related seismic data processing, actually had a
price-performance figure of 500 Mflops/$1M (superior to what Emeagwali had
achieved) and an absolute performance of 6.0 Gflops, but the judges decided
not to award both prizes to the same team. [5][6] Emeagwali's simulation was
the first program to apply a pseudo-time approach to reservoir modeling. [7]
Emeagwali was voted the "35th-greatest African (and greatest African scientist)
of all time" in a survey by New African magazine. [8] [ dead link][citation needed ]
His achievements were quoted in a speech by Bill Clinton as an example of
what Nigerians could achieve when given the opportunity. [9] [dead link]
[ citation needed ] He is also a frequent feature of Black History Month articles in
the popular press .[10][11] [dead link]
Court case and the denial of degree
Emeagwali studied for a Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan from
1987 through 1991. His thesis was not accepted by a committee of internal and
external examiners and thus he was not awarded the degree. Emeagwali filed a
court challenge, stating that the decision was a violation of his civil rights and
that the university had discriminated against him in several ways because of his
race. The court challenge was dismissed, as was an appeal to the Michigan
state Court of Appeals. [12]....
read more at: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali
Likewise Olukotun
Olukotun
Oyekunle Ayinde (Kunle) Olukotun is a
pioneer of multi-core processors , a professor
of electrical engineering and computer
science at Stanford University and director of
the Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory at
Stanford. [1]
Olukotun did his undergraduate studies at
Calvin College, [2] and his doctoral studies in
computer engineering at the University of
Michigan , under the supervision of Trevor N.
Mudge. [3]
In the mid-1990s, Olukotun and his co-
authors argued that multi-core computer
processors were likely to make better use of
hardware than existing superscalar designs.
[4] In 2000, while a professor at Stanford,
Olukotun founded Afara Websystems , a
company that designed and manufactured
multi-core SPARC-based computer processors
for data centers. Afara was purchased by Sun
Microsystems in 2002; [5] at Sun, Olukotun
was one of the architects of the 2005
UltraSPARC T1 processor.[6] In 2008,
Olukotun returned to Stanford, and founded
the Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory at
Stanford after gathering US$6M in funding
from several computer-industry corporations.
[7] His recent work focuses on domain-
specific programming languages that can
allow algorithms to be easily adapted to
multiple different types of parallel hardware
including multi-core systems, graphics
processing units , and field-programmable
gate arrays. [8]
Olukotun is also a member of the board of
advisors of UDC, a Nigerian venture capital
firm .[2] He was elected as a Fellow of the
Association for Computing Machinery in 2006
for his "contributions to multiprocessors on a
chip and multi threaded processor design".[9]
He became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2008. [10]
Olukotun has used several words from his
African heritage in his research. Afara, the
name of the company he founded, means
"bridge" in the Yoruba language , [5] and he
has named his server at Stanford Ogun after
the Yoruba god of iron and steel, a play on
words since large computers are frequently ......
read more at http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunle_Olukotun
So who does it better between the two?

One is a scam. The other is verifiable.

ocheejemb:
One is a scam. The other is verifiable.

Olukotun is verified, right?