Pictorials
African Heads of States
President George W. Bush & President Thabo Mbeki in South Africa
Modern Highways in West Africa
African Hall in Nigeria capital at Abuja
L-R President Mbeki of South Africa & Bill Gates of Microsoft in South Africa
African Heritage: L-R Dr. Rice, US Secretary of State & UN Boss Kofi Annan .
Philip Emeagwali on Nigerian stamp
Often called one of the fathers of the Internet, the Nigerian-born Emeagwali survived civil war as a teenager to become a computer scientist and geologist in the U.S. His greatest accomplishment was the work he did in 1987, when he used the Connection Machine to program thousands of computers to talk to one another to correctly analyze the amount of oil petroleum fields, a record-breaking discovery that was a precursor to the Internet. He received the Gordon Bell Prize in 1989 for his work. (emeagwali.com)
