Pan-African Perspective

Technology

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"...take part in the pursuit of scientific and technological research as a means of providing a basis for our socialist society. Socialism without science is void"

"We cannot afford to sit still and be mere passive onlookers ..."

Kwame Nkrumah

Philip Emeagwali

Philip Emeagwali, one of the foremost scientific thinkers of our time. He has been called one of the Fathers of the Internet.

Listen to his presentation at the Prospering in the Digital Age Conference sponsored by Walker Automated Services.

Presentation

Millennial Perspective on Science, Technology and Development in Africa and its Possible Directions for the Twenty-first Century
Hammamet, (Tunisia), 23–27 April 1999
http://www.unesco.org/science/wcs/meetings/afr_hammamet_99.htm

Philip Emeagwali, "A father of the Internet"

Egyptian Astronomer-priestesses who gave the world higher mathematics

Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/
mad/00.INDEXmad.html

Black Women in Mathematics
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/wmad0.html

African Indigenous Science and Knowledge Systems
http://members.aol.com/afsci/africana.htm

Egyptian Fractions
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/numth/egypt/

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The Libyan Rocket -- Africa's premiere car.

Unveiled on the 30th anniversary of the revolution, the Libyan rocket is a five-passenger sedan. Libya says it is the safest vehicle in the world today. It was launched at a special summit of the Organisation of African Unity. The summit was organised by Colonel Gaddafi.
September 1999