Scientific and Historical records prove conclusively that: No African race is inferior to any race on earth be it white or black in terms of intelligence. If anything records only suggest that races are integrated to civilization at various stages. That social factors may affect pursuits of modern knowledge one way or the other. That it is pure mediocrity and sheer ignorance human nature to think that any race possess any special gene for intellect above another. The difference has always been Motives for Achievement. Why the right motives for achievement leads to celebration and gradual growth the wrong motives for achievement leads to condemnation and rabid growth."we-are-the-best-syndrome" if the claim to being the best doctor comes to your mind then you are not a fit and proper person to lead a hospital management team. Society needs humble people to simple.

here is a list of African achievers. (despite the generational and phenomenal impact of these people you will never see their tribes minions claiming superiority above others. what is more those who claim superiority do not even have the depth of impact others have made).

This is a list of African scientists, inventors, and scholars who were born or active on the African continent.
North African
Imhotep fl. 2667–2611 BC, an Egyptian polymath
Euclid , a Greek mathematician active in Hellenistic Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I (323–283 BC).
Muhammad Abduh (1849–1905), an Egyptian jurist, religious scholar and liberal reformer, regarded as the founder of Islamic Modernism.
Abū Kāmil Shujā ibn Aslam
Sameera Moussa (1917–1952), an Egyptian nuclear scientist.
Al-Jahiz (781 – 868/869), an Afro-Arab scholar of East African descent.
Arius (AD ca. 250 or 256 – 336), a Christian priest from Alexandria, Egypt.
Saint Cyprian (died September 14, 258), was bishop of Carthage and early Christian writer.
Abbas Ibn Firnas
Nur ad-Din al-Betrugi
Tertullian (ca. 160 – ca. 220 A.D.), a Christian Berber author and writer of Christian Latin literature.
Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430), a Bishop of Hippo Regius and Romanized Berber philosopher and theologian.
Al-Idrisi (1100–1165 or 1166), an Andalusian geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist and traveller.
Al-Suyuti (c. 1445–1505 AD), an Egyptian writer, religious scholar, juristic expert and teacher.
Muhammad al-Maghili (died c. 1505), an Islamic scholar from Tlemcen in modern-day Algeria.
Ahmed Zewail (1946-2016), Egyptian-American scientist, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Rachid Yazami (1953-), French Moroccan scientist best known for his research on lithium ion batteries.
Sub-Saharan African
Cameroonian
Ibrahim Njoya , a Cameroonian King credited with developing a semi-syllabic Bamum script which evolved from the rudimentary pictographic script to a more advanced logo graphic script, which he later refined to the famous semi-syllabic script known to the world today.
Eritrean
Haile Debas (b. 1937), an Eritrean who achieved national recognition as a gastrointestinal investigator and made original contributions to the physiology, biochemistry, and pathophysiology of gastrointestinal peptide hormones.
Ethiopian
Berhane Asfaw a (b. 1954), Ethiopian paleontologist.
Giday WoldeGabriel a (b. 1955), Ethiopian geologist.
Gebisa Ejeta (b. 1950), Ethiopian plant breeder and geneticist who won the 2009 World Food Prize .
Sossina M. Haile (b. 1966), professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology .
Mulugeta Bekele (b. 1947), Professor of Physics at
Addis Ababa University.
Kitaw Ejigu (1948-2006), Ethiopian engineer and Chief of Spacecraft and Satellite Systems engineer at
NASA.
Aklilu Lemma (1934-1997), Ethiopian physician and was co-awarded the 1989 Right Livelihood Award .
Dessalegn Rahmato (b. 1940), Ethiopia sociologist and was awarded the 1998 Prince Claus Award .
Legesse Wolde-Yohannes , Ethiopian horticultural scientist and was co-awarded the 1989 Right Livelihood Award .
Melaku Worede (b. 1936), Ethiopian horticultural scientist and was co-awarded the 1989 Right Livelihood Award .
Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher (b. 1940), Ethiopian environmental scientist and the General Manager of the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia. He was awarded the 2000 Right Livelihood Award and 2006 Champions of the Earth.
Kenyan
Wangari Maathai , (b. 1940), a Kenyan environmental and political activist who won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
Thomas R. Odhiambo (1931–2003), a Kenyan entomologist and environmental activist.
Henry Odera Oruka , (b.1944), Kenyan philosopher known for Sage philosophy project started in the 1970s.
Malian
Mohammed Bagayogo (1523–1593), an eminent scholar from Timbuktu, Mali.
Modibo Mohammed Al Kaburi a scholar, Cadi and Jurist, and university professor, from Timbuktu, Mali.
Cheick Modibo Diarra, (b. 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), a medieval West African writer, scholar, and political provocateur.
Nigerian
Wole Soyinka , is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honored in that category. The Wole Soyinka Lecture Annual Lecture Series was founded in 1994 and is dedicated to honouring one of Nigeria and Africa's most outstanding and enduring literary icons.
Chinua Achebe , a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic. Author of highest selling book in modern African literature, Things Fall Apart. He is often referred to as the father of modern African literature.
John Ogbu (1939–2003), a Nigerian-American anthropologist and university professor.
Seyi Oyesola , a Nigerian doctor, who co-invented hospital in a box.
Bisi Ezerioha , (b. 1972), a Nigerian engineer, racer and former pharmaceutical executive who has built some of the world's most powerful Honda and Porsche engines.
Senegalese
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986), a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist and politician.
South African
Thebe Medupe (b. 1973), a South African astrophysicist and founding director of Astronomy Africa.
Allan McLeod Cormack (1924–1998), a South African-born American physicist, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Aaron Klug , (b. 1926), a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, who won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He moved to South Africa at the age of two and studied at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town.
Sydney Brenner (b. 1927), a South African biologist, who won the 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Christiaan Barnard (1922–2001), a South African cardiac surgeon, who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.
Mark Shuttleworth (b. 1973), a South African entrepreneur.
Tshilidzi Marwala (b. 1971), a South African scientist and inventor.
Himla Soodyall , a South African human geneticist, known for genetic research into the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa.
Neil Toruk , a South African astrophysicist and director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics .
Trefor Jenkins , a human geneticist from South Africa, noted for his work on DNA.
Andries Van Aarde professor of theology at University of Pretoria.
Azwinndini Muronga professor of physics and dean of science.
Sudanese
Mo Ibrahim , (b. 1946), a Sudanese-born British mobile communications entrepreneur.
Tanzanian
Felix A. Chami , an archaeologist and university professor from Tanzania.
Ugandan
Venansius Baryamureeba , a Ugandan professor of Computer Science and educationist.
Kwatsi Alibaruho , a Ugandan-American Flight Director at NASA.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_scientists,_inventors,_and_scholars
African Nobel Prize Winners


Those awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature were:
Wole Soyinka of Nigeria, Derek Walcott of St. Lucia and the United States, and Toni Morrison of the United States. Sir William Arthur Lewis is the only black to have received a Nobel Prize in Economics.

Hausa/Fulani bow to no one in Intellect

Jibril Muhammad Aminu (born August 1939) is a professor of cardiology. [1] He was Nigerian Ambassador to the USA (1999–2003) and was elected Senator for Adamawa Central constituency of
Adamawa State , Nigeria , taking office on 29 May 2003. He is a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP). [2]
Birth and academic career
Aminu was born in August 1939. Studying medicine, he obtained an M.B.B.S from the University of Ibadan in 1965, and a PhD in Medicine from the Royal Post-Graduate Medical School, London in 1972. He was appointed a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science in 1972, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London in 1980 and a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians also in 1980. He was made a Distinguished Fellow of the Nigerian Postgraduate Medical College in 2004. [2]
Aminu was a Consultant in Medicine, Senior Lecturer and Sub-Dean, Clinical Studies at the University of Ibadan Medical School (1973–1975), and Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (1975–1979). He was Visiting Professor of Medicine at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington DC (1979–1980) and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri , 1980-1985. He was also Professor of Medicine at the University of Maiduguri (1979–1995). [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubril_Aminu

Jelani Aliyu
In the 70’s he had already completed his basic education at Capital School Sokoto. He gained admission into Federal Government College, Sokoto. There he received a couple of awards in Technical Drawing. His engineering skills has never been in question. He had planned to study architecture at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. The tech-whiz eventually obtained a scholarship from the Sokoto State government.
On his arrival to the United States, he enrolled at the College for Creative Studies (CSS), Detroit, Michigan in 1990. He studied Automobile Design for 4 years and obtained his degree in 1994. In the course of his study, he won two awards from Ford Motor Company and Michelin, US. He started work at General motors in 1997. By 1999 he moved to Germany to work in the Europe division.
In an official statement by GM, in New York, Jelani Aliyu was announced as the winner of a 10 month auto-engineering competition. It was noted that Jelani’s invention was eco-friendly with an apt ergonomics. The car uses gas engine to produce additional electricity. The statement further appreciated Jelani’s brain child saying,
See Also: Africa’s First Slick Super Car – Moses Ngobeni
As at January 2014, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) voted the Chevrolet Volt the most fuel-efficient vehicle in the market. The car runs on battery-power combined with a gasoline consumption of 3.8 L/100 km.
Jelani Aliyu is a proof to the power of the human imagination.

http://answersafrica.com/jelani-aliyu-chevrolet-volt-designer.html

African Women As Science Laureates http://www.africanews.com/2017/01/26/africa-s-top-5-female-scientists-awarded-20000-each-by-au-with-eu-support//

Who are the award winners?
Prof. Jane Catherine Ngila from Kenya as the East Africa Region laureate for her research in the area of Analytical-Environmental Chemistry on water resource management.
Dr. Lamia Chaari Fourati from Tunisia as the North Africa Region laureate for her research activities on conception and validation of new protocols and mechanisms for quality of service provisioning over emerging networks technologies.
Associate Prof. Celia Abolnik from South Africa as the laureate of the South Africa Region for her research in avian respiratory viruses, especially those that effect chicken and ostrich production in Africa.
Prof. Rokia Sanogo from Mali as one of the West Africa Region laureates for her research in Pharmacognosy with a particular focus on Traditional Medicines.
Prof. Olu-Owolabi Bamidele from Nigeria as the second laureate of the West Africa Region for her research on the development of sustainable alternative materials for water treatment.

seun, lalasticlala mynd44 let the world know nairaland celebrates everyone with "impact makers menatality" and not "we are superior mentality"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhlBRuSiDIw

Dear Caucasoid Devils: An IQ test doesn't make you smart. Africans are more intelligent

Caucasoid devils need to understand that an IQ test does not make you smart, Africans are smarter. In this video, Cynthia G discusses recent scientific research that confirms that an IQ test isn't an effective way to measure intelligence, breaks down the myth of European intellectual superiority, and show video footage of multiple melanoid students being accepted into every ivy league college. Black intelligence, the myth of the IQ test, the institutional advantage that Caucasoid have, and African intelligence are discussed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adoXzWJbjv0

BLACK AFRICANS IQ - Highest EDUCATED Group in U.S., U.K., Canada etc.

In an analysis of Census Bureau data by the Journal of Blacks in higher education black African immigrants to the United States were found more likely to be college educated than any other immigrant group and also more than the native populations, regardless of race, in the U.S., U.K, Canada, Great Britain and EVERY other country where they are present in high numbers.

the brown roof sophisticated and dilapidated afonjas will soon commit suicide because because of the US report......
Always creating unnecessary thread just to discredit the fact that Igbo's are an intelligent race in Africa.....loool....
Please nobody should respond to them....just allow them to musterbate on their lagos--ibadan expressway thread

igbos have a very high I.Q that is what I know, I don't care about Yoruba.

obaino860:
the brown roof sophisticated and dilapidated afonjas will soon commit suicide because because of the US report......
Always creating unnecessary thread just to discredit the fact that Igbo's are an intelligent race in Africa.....loool....
Please nobody should respond to them....just allow them to musterbate on their lagos--ibadan expressway thread

Those before said the same thing some 70 years ago. claiming to be the "master race of Africa" And people like you will continue to repeat it 70 years from today. One thing has been constant God has been elevating the humble races rulers in politics, industry and educational laurels. For your intelligence all we hear is marginalisation for over 50 years. What a miserable way to be more intelligent than others.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/105036-how-the-igbo-introduced-tribalism-to-nigerian-politics-by-femi-fani-kayode.html Today Fani is cohabiting with an Igbo woman and he is a hero of Igbos. This intelligence is unparallelled!

I want to see a local black man' s name. Not all these Egyptian, Moroccan stuff. Mind you, Egypt and Morocco are only Africans geographically.

tuscani:
I want to see a local black man' s name. Not all these Egyptian, Moroccan stuff. Mind you, Egypt and Morocco are only Africans geographically.

The list started from North Africa down to sub-Sahara Africa. you will find Nigerian names there.

I have always known as Humans we are basically equal, as shown on my signature.
The difference is what we decide to do with our lives, as individuals or as a group.

EazyMoh:
I have always known as Humans we are basically equal, as shown on my signature.
The difference is what we decide to do with our lives, as individuals or as a group.

This is a reasonable approach. You will be shocked to know that some people actually strive to best others just for the sake of vain glory. In most cases they succeed because others are not given to rabid vainglory. It will also interest you to know that individuals from any race can pursue their passion without interest in vainglory and thereby excel above their contemporaries. This is the cases with Nobel prize Winners like Wole Soyinka and renowned scholars all over the world.

TRUTHTOPOWER:


The list started from North Africa down to sub-Sahara Africa. you will find Nigerian names there.

North Africans are only geographically Africans, I want a local name dating in the 8th- 16th century. It is only people that are far intelligent than you that can colonize you.

tuscani:
North Africans are only geographically Africans, I want a local name dating in the 8th- 16th century. It is only people that are far intelligent than you that can colonize you.

Lol! Go through history my brother, a community can be conquered and enslaved by another, only for the conquered to grow stronger and more sophisticated to conquer their conquerors years later. What do you say about that? Do they become 'superior' to the people who were 'superior' to them before? That's Just ridiculous.
For me, the moment you look at yourself, your tribe, race or lineage as being superior to any other, you have set yourself on the path of pride and what follows is destruction. Likewise if you view yourself as imperior, you are bound not to achieve your potentials.
Key is keeping balance, by seeing every human as being equal. And strive to achieve greatness taking advantage of our upper hands.

TRUTHTOPOWER:


This is a reasonable approach. You will be shocked to know that some people actually strive to best others just for the sake of vain glory. In most cases they succeed because others are not given to rabid vainglory. It will also interest you to know that individuals from any race can pursue their passion without interest in vainglory and thereby excel above their contemporaries. This is the cases with Nobel prize Winners like Wole Soyinka and renowned scholars all over the world.

Educative thread, Kudos.

The literary works of Wole Soyinka and China Achebe clearly illustrate what it takes to win a Nobel Prize. Wole transcended racial prejudice and bias to project Africa as worthy intellectual giants. He us a playright, Novelist, dramatist and Poet. on the other hand the most successful work of Chinua Achebe portrayed Africa as a Dark Continent. This conformed to the profile the West wanted the World to see of Africa. so for you to understand how dark Africa is pick up Chinua Achebe things fall apart. At the end the Nobel Committee selected Soyinka for the whole world.
Does that make Yorubas better writers? No. Notwithstanding the fact that Olojede a Yoruba journalist won the Pullitzer Prize. first of its kind also in Africa . These in all sincerity have nothing to do with being Yoruba but being individuals who fully maximised the opportunities at their disposal
.http://www.cp-africa.com/2009/12/16/dele-olojede-africas-1st-pulitzer-prize-winne-discusses-journalism-234next/

tuscani:
North Africans are only geographically Africans, I want a local name dating in the 8th- 16th century. It is only people that are far intelligent than you that can colonize you.

Mr. I don't know your motive for this question. There is no recorded history of Sub Sahara Africa in your preferred time frame. If the evils of colonialism are your yardsticks for intelligence then you might one day become an evil genius yourself. I don't envy that. There are whites with history of BCs who are now cheering blacks of ADs on rostrum of intellectual achievement. This proves intelligence has no special gene or race!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush
read about the Kushites. These were blacks who ruled the world when the ancestors of the "colonial masters" were hunting rabbits and squirrels in the caves of Normandy.

From Wikipedia: Kingdom of Kush or Kush ( / kʊʃ, kʌʃ/ ) was an ancient Nubian kingdom situated on the confluences of the Blue Nile, White Nile and River Atbara in what is now Sudan and South Sudan.
The Kushite era of rule in Nubia was established after the Bronze Age collapse and the disintegration of the
New Kingdom of Egypt , and it was centered at Napata in its early phase. After King Kashta ("the Kushite" invaded Egypt in the 8th century BC, the Kushite emperors ruled as pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt for a century, until they were expelled by the Assyrians under the rule of Esarhaddon .
During Classical antiquity , the Kushite imperial capital was at Meroe . In early Greek geography, the Meroitic kingdom was known as Aethiopia .

Hmmmmm

igbozionism:
why are Yoruba's so bitter that Igbo's is intellectually superior to them? pls you guys should just swallow this bitter pill and move on. you think we be una mate because we dey with you 4 naija? the Igbo's you see today has the Jewish ingenuity imbedded in them. it is not just hardwork it is natural and in our DNA

You should see all tribes in Africa as equal

Statistics 101, elementary error: preselection. African immigrants are not a random sample of the general population they come from. They come from more affluent urban families (higher IQ) who can afford to send their kids to study abroad or they arrive on scholarships (again, higher IQ). You can't compare IQs of a general population (e.g. US whites or blacks) to a preselected group like African immigrants. You can only compare IQs between general populations, e.g. US to Nigeria

jerseyboy:
Statistics 101, elementary error: preselection. African immigrants are not a random sample of the general population they come from. They come from more affluent urban families (higher IQ) who can afford to send their kids to study abroad or they arrive on scholarships (again, higher IQ). You can't compare IQs of a general population (e.g. US whites or blacks) to a preselected group like African immigrants. You can only compare IQs between general populations, e.g. US to Nigeria

The only statistics IPOB know are the statistics of wailing to get attention.

tuscani:
North Africans are only geographically Africans, I want a local name dating in the 8th- 16th century. It is only people that are far intelligent than you that can colonize you.

Can we say the barbarian Huns who sacked Rome are more intelligent than the Romans who built a huge empire spanning Europe, North Africa, middle East.
Yet a rag tag army of barbarians conquered it's capital city. Or federal troops who over ran Biafra capital in a few weeks are necessarily more intelligent

The theory get plenty K-leg.. Africans, I am an African.. I won't say much ours environment give clues and answered to your theory..

This is a consolation thread

TRUTHTOPOWER:
Scientific and Historical records prove conclusively that: No African race is inferior to any race on earth be it white or black in terms of intelligence. If anything records only suggest that races are integrated to civilization at various stages. That social factors may affect pursuits of modern knowledge one way or the other.

That it is pure mediocrity and sheer ignorance human nature to think that any race possess any special gene for intellect above another. The difference has always been Motives for Achievement. Why the right motives for achievement leads to celebration and gradual growth the wrong motives for achievement leads to condemnation and rabid growth."we-are-the-best-syndrome" if the claim to being the best doctor comes to your mind then you are not a fit and proper person to lead a hospital management team. Society needs humble people to simple.

Here is a list of African achievers. (despite the generational and phenomenal impact of these people you will never see their tribes minions claiming superiority above others. what is more those who claim superiority do not even have the depth of impact others have made).

This is a list of African scientists, inventors, and scholars who were born or active on the African continent.


North African
Imhotep fl. 2667–2611 BC, an Egyptian polymath

Euclid , a Greek mathematician active in Hellenistic Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I (323–283 BC).

Muhammad Abduh (1849–1905), an Egyptian jurist, religious scholar and liberal reformer, regarded as the founder of Islamic Modernism.
Abū Kāmil Shujā ibn Aslam

Sameera Moussa (1917–1952), an Egyptian nuclear scientist.
Al-Jahiz (781 – 868/869), an Afro-Arab scholar of East African descent.

Arius (AD ca. 250 or 256 – 336), a Christian priest from Alexandria, Egypt.

Saint Cyprian (died September 14, 258), was bishop of Carthage and early Christian writer.

Abbas Ibn Firnas
Nur ad-Din al-Betrugi
Tertullian (ca. 160 – ca. 220 A.D.), a Christian Berber author and writer of Christian Latin literature.

Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430), a Bishop of Hippo Regius and Romanized Berber philosopher and theologian.

Al-Idrisi (1100–1165 or 1166), an Andalusian geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist and traveller.

Al-Suyuti (c. 1445–1505 AD), an Egyptian writer, religious scholar, juristic expert and teacher.

Muhammad al-Maghili (died c. 1505), an Islamic scholar from Tlemcen in modern-day Algeria.

Ahmed Zewail (1946-2016), Egyptian-American scientist, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Rachid Yazami (1953-), French Moroccan scientist best known for his research on lithium ion batteries.




Sub-Saharan African

Cameroonian
Ibrahim Njoya, a Cameroonian King credited with developing a semi-syllabic Bamum script which evolved from the rudimentary pictographic script to a more advanced logo graphic script, which he later refined to the famous semi-syllabic script known to the world today.

Eritrean
Haile Debas (b. 1937), an Eritrean who achieved national recognition as a gastrointestinal investigator and made original contributions to the physiology, biochemistry, and pathophysiology of gastrointestinal peptide hormones.

Ethiopian
Berhane Asfaw a (b. 1954), Ethiopian paleontologist.

Giday WoldeGabriel a (b. 1955), Ethiopian geologist.

Gebisa Ejeta (b. 1950), Ethiopian plant breeder and geneticist who won the 2009 World Food Prize .

Sossina M. Haile (b. 1966), professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology .

Mulugeta Bekele (b. 1947), Professor of Physics at
Addis Ababa University.

Kitaw Ejigu (1948-2006), Ethiopian engineer and Chief of Spacecraft and Satellite Systems engineer at
NASA.

Aklilu Lemma (1934-1997), Ethiopian physician and was co-awarded the 1989 Right Livelihood Award .

Dessalegn Rahmato (b. 1940), Ethiopia sociologist and was awarded the 1998 Prince Claus Award .

Legesse Wolde-Yohannes , Ethiopian horticultural scientist and was co-awarded the 1989 Right Livelihood Award .

Melaku Worede (b. 1936), Ethiopian horticultural scientist and was co-awarded the 1989 Right Livelihood Award .

Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher (b. 1940), Ethiopian environmental scientist and the General Manager of the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia. He was awarded the 2000 Right Livelihood Award and 2006 Champions of the Earth.



Kenyan

Wangari Maathai , (b. 1940), a Kenyan environmental and political activist who won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.

Thomas R. Odhiambo (1931–2003), a Kenyan entomologist and environmental activist.

Henry Odera Oruka , (b.1944), Kenyan philosopher known for Sage philosophy project started in the 1970s.


Malian

Mohammed Bagayogo (1523–1593), an eminent scholar from Timbuktu, Mali.
Modibo Mohammed Al Kaburi a scholar, Cadi and Jurist, and university professor, from Timbuktu, Mali.

Cheick Modibo Diarra, (b. 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), a medieval West African writer, scholar, and political provocateur.



Nigerian

Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honored in that category. The Wole Soyinka Lecture Annual Lecture Series was founded in 1994 and is dedicated to honouring one of Nigeria and Africa's most outstanding and enduring literary icons.

Chinua Achebe , a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic. Author of highest selling book in modern African literature, Things Fall Apart. He is often referred to as the father of modern African literature.

John Ogbu (1939–2003), a Nigerian-American anthropologist and university professor.

Seyi Oyesola , a Nigerian doctor, who co-invented hospital in a box.

Bisi Ezerioha, (b. 1972), a Nigerian engineer, racer and former pharmaceutical executive who has built some of the world's most powerful Honda and Porsche engines.




Senegalese

Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986), a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist and politician.

South African
Thebe Medupe (b. 1973), a South African astrophysicist and founding director of Astronomy Africa.

Allan McLeod Cormack (1924–1998), a South African-born American physicist, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Aaron Klug , (b. 1926), a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, who won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He moved to South Africa at the age of two and studied at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town.

Sydney Brenner (b. 1927), a South African biologist, who won the 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Christiaan Barnard (1922–2001), a South African cardiac surgeon, who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.

Mark Shuttleworth (b. 1973), a South African entrepreneur.

Tshilidzi Marwala (b. 1971), a South African scientist and inventor.
Himla Soodyall , a South African human geneticist, known for genetic research into the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa.

Neil Toruk , a South African astrophysicist and director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics .

Trefor Jenkins , a human geneticist from South Africa, noted for his work on DNA.

Andries Van Aarde professor of theology at University of Pretoria.

Azwinndini Muronga professor of physics and dean of science.



Sudanese

Mo Ibrahim , (b. 1946), a Sudanese-born British mobile communications entrepreneur.



Tanzanian

Felix A. Chami , an archaeologist and university professor from Tanzania.


Ugandan

Venansius Baryamureeba , a Ugandan professor of Computer Science and educationist.

Kwatsi Alibaruho , a Ugandan-American Flight Director at NASA.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_scientists,_inventors,_and_scholars




African Nobel Prize Winners


Those awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature were:

Wole Soyinka of Nigeria, Derek Walcott of St. Lucia and the United States, and Toni Morrison of the United States.

Sir William Arthur Lewis is the only black to have received a Nobel Prize in Economics.




Hausa/Fulani bow to no one in Intellect

Jibril Muhammad Aminu (born August 1939) is a professor of cardiology. [1] He was Nigerian Ambassador to the USA (1999–2003) and was elected Senator for Adamawa Central constituency of Adamawa State , Nigeria, taking office on 29 May 2003. He is a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP). [2]
Birth and academic career
Aminu was born in August 1939. Studying medicine, he obtained an M.B.B.S from the University of Ibadan in 1965, and a PhD in Medicine from the Royal Post-Graduate Medical School, London in 1972. He was appointed a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science in 1972, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London in 1980 and a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians also in 1980. He was made a Distinguished Fellow of the Nigerian Postgraduate Medical College in 2004. [2]
Aminu was a Consultant in Medicine, Senior Lecturer and Sub-Dean, Clinical Studies at the University of Ibadan Medical School (1973–1975), and Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (1975–1979). He was Visiting Professor of Medicine at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington DC (1979–1980) and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri , 1980-1985. He was also Professor of Medicine at the University of Maiduguri (1979–1995). [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubril_Aminu



Jelani Aliyu
In the 70’s he had already completed his basic education at Capital School Sokoto. He gained admission into Federal Government College, Sokoto. There he received a couple of awards in Technical Drawing. His engineering skills has never been in question. He had planned to study architecture at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. The tech-whiz eventually obtained a scholarship from the Sokoto State government.

On his arrival to the United States, he enrolled at the College for Creative Studies (CSS), Detroit, Michigan in 1990. He studied Automobile Design for 4 years and obtained his degree in 1994. In the course of his study, he won two awards from Ford Motor Company and Michelin, US. He started work at General motors in 1997. By 1999 he moved to Germany to work in the Europe division.

In an official statement by GM, in New York, Jelani Aliyu was announced as the winner of a 10 month auto-engineering competition. It was noted that Jelani’s invention was eco-friendly with an apt ergonomics. The car uses gas engine to produce additional electricity. The statement further appreciated Jelani’s brain child saying,

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As at January 2014, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) voted the Chevrolet Volt the most fuel-efficient vehicle in the market. The car runs on battery-power combined with a gasoline consumption of 3.8 L/100 km.

Jelani Aliyu is a proof to the power of the human imagination.

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African Women As Science Laureates http://www.africanews.com/2017/01/26/africa-s-top-5-female-scientists-awarded-20000-each-by-au-with-eu-support//


Who are the award winners?
Prof. Jane Catherine Ngila from Kenya as the East Africa Region laureate for her research in the area of Analytical-Environmental Chemistry on water resource management.

Dr. Lamia Chaari Fourati from Tunisia as the North Africa Region laureate for her research activities on conception and validation of new protocols and mechanisms for quality of service provisioning over emerging networks technologies.
Associate Prof. Celia Abolnik from South Africa as the laureate of the South Africa Region for her research in avian respiratory viruses, especially those that effect chicken and ostrich production in Africa.

Prof. Rokia Sanogo from Mali as one of the West Africa Region laureates for her research in Pharmacognosy with a particular focus on Traditional Medicines.

Prof. Olu-Owolabi Bamidele from Nigeria as the second laureate of the West Africa Region for her research on the development of sustainable alternative materials for water treatment.

An awesome list! The Malian scientist with NASA really impressed me back when we heard that he worked on the Mars Rover mission.