It is unknown how many African scientists did
a doctorate in mathematics. We estimate it to be around two thousand
in North Africa and more than a thousand South of the Sahara.
The first North African to have completed a doctorate in mathematics
was probably the Egyptian Ali Mostafa Mosharafa, who received
his Ph.D. and D.Sc. from the University of London in 1923 and
1924 respectively. Excluding South Africa, the first mathematician
from Africa South of the Sahara to earn a doctorate in mathematics
was probably the Nigerian Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi (b.
1921) who received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge
in 1950.
Below we present a first list of examples of
African doctorates in mathematics, mathematics education and the
history of mathematics. We refer to mathematicians either born
in Africa (today some may be citizens of countries outside Africa)
or citizens of African countries (some of whom may have been born
outside the continent). We do not include those countries where
we already have web pages. This web page is under construction.
The list is rather complete for some countries
like Burkina Faso, Malawi and Mozambique, and very incomplete
for others, like Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania
and several countries in North Africa. We hope to receive more
replies from colleagues to be able to update regularly the list
and to obtain a more complete view of the situation on the continent.
We think, nevertheless, that even an incomplete list as the one
that follows, may give already some impression of the variety
of fields in which African mathematicians are working. Academic
titles may vary in time and from country to country. The academic
titles indicated in the list are the ones as given by the mathematicians
themselves, and all refer to doctorates at least equivalent to
the Ph.D. The list of examples is organised first in the alphabetical
order of the countries and then in temporal order of the date
of receiving the doctorates.
Algeria
Angola
Botswana
Benin
Burkina
Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Canary
Islands (Spain)
Central
African Republic
DR
of Congo [Zaire]
Côte
d'Ivoire
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
- MAD Guy Martial NKIET (b. 1966) (Male)
1994 (Doctorat unique) Mesures d'association et analyse canonique
[Measures of association and canonical analysis], Université
Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France); Advisor: Jacques Dauxois.
- Philibert NANG (b. 1967) (Male)
1996 (Doctorat unique) D-modules holonomes reguliers associés
au groupe des similitudes [Regular holonomic D-modules associated
to the group similitudes], University of Paris 6 (Paris, France);
Advisor: Louis Boutet de Monvel.
- Jocelyn NEMBE (b. 1967) (Male)
1996 (Doctorat unique) Estimation de la fonction d'intensité
d'un procesus ponctuel par la méthode de complexité
minimale [Minimum complexity estimation for the intensity function
of a point process], Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble,
France); Advisor: Gérard Grégoire.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown: Théophile
MAVOUNGOU;
Ghana
Guinea Conakry
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown: Alfa
Lamine SYLLA
Kenya
- MAD George Kinuthia Kiarie SAITOTI
(b. 1944) (Male)
1971 (Ph.D.) Mod-2 K-Theory of the Second Iterated Loop Space
on a Sphere, University of Warwick (Warwick, UK); Advisor: Luke
Hodgkin.
- John Nguthu MUTIO (Male)
1971 (Ph.D.) Frobenius Groups, Syracuse University (Syracuse
NY, USA); Advisor: Larry C. Grove.
- Wandera OGANA (b. 05.1946) (Male)
1975 (Ph.D.) Computation of steady two-dimensional transonic
flows by an integral equation method, Stanford University (Stanford
CA, USA); Advisor: John R. Spreiter.
- Patrick Guge Oloo WEKE (b. 28.12.1962) (Male)
2001 (Ph.D.) Simplified Optimal and Relay Linear Unbiased Estimation
of Parameters of Logistic Distribution, Harbin Institute of Technology
(Harbin, China); Advisors: Wang Chengguan & Wu Congxin.
- Mourice Ouma OTIENO (b. 09.02.1968) (Male)
2002 (Ph.D.) On Quasi-affinity, Equivalence and Intersection
of some Classes of Operators in Hilbert Spaces, University of
Nairobi (Nairobi, Kenya); Advisors: Jairus M. Khalagai &
G. P. Pokhariyal.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown: George
ESHIWANI (b. ..) (Male)
Lesotho
- Moshe MOLELEKOA (b. 1942) (Male)
1982 (Ph.D.) Space-time symmetries of Yang-Mills gauge fields,
University of Washington (Seattle, Washington, USA); Advisors:
Judith M. Arms & J. M. Westwater.
- Ntsibane Stephen NTLATLAPA (Male)
1999 (Ph.D.) Verified High-Level Synthesis Front-End and Simulator
Using Dependence Flow Graphs, Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama,
USA); Advisor: Richard Chapman.
- Thabiso NYABANYABA (b. 07.01.1961) (Male)
2002 (Ph.D.) The ordinary level (O level) mathematics examination
in Lesotho and the impact of recent trends on Basotho students'
epistemological access, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg,
South Africa); Advisor: Jill Adler.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown: M.
P. RAMOLLO
Madagascar
- Harisson RATSIMBA-RAJOHN (Male)
1981 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) Etude de deux méthodes
de mesures rationnelles : la commensuration et le fractionnement
de l'unité, en vue d'élaboration de situations
didactiques, Université Bordeaux 1 (Bordeaux, France);
Advisor: Guy Brousseau.
1992 (Doctorat d'Université) Contribution à l'étude
de hiérarchie implicative. Application à l'analyse
de la gestion didactique des phénomènes d'ostension
et de contradictions [Contribution to the study of implicative
hierarchy. Application to the analysis of didactic management
of the phenomena of exposition and of contradiction], Université
Rennes 1 (Rennes, France); Advisors: Régis Gras &
Guy Brousseau.
- Fanja RAKOTONDRAJAO (b. 1969) (Female)
1999 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) R-multipermutations hierarchisées
et dérangements, Université d'Antananarivo (Antananarivo,
Madagascar); Advisor: Roberto Mantaci (Université Paris
7, France).
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown:
Malawi
- Overtoun M. G. JENDA (b. 29.08.1954) (Male)
1981 (Ph.D.) On Injective Resolvents, University of Kentucky
(USA); Advisor: Edgar Earl Enochs.
- Busiso Pascal CHISALA (Male)
1986 (Ph.D.) Canonical Coordinates for Hyperelliptic Curves in
Characteristics P, University of California (Berkeley Ca, USA);
Advisor: Arthur Ogus.
- MAD Llolsten
KAONGA
1994 (Ph.D.) Decomposable Functions and Universal C*-Algebras,
University of New Hampshire (Durham NH, USA); Advisor: Donald
Hadwin.
- Jimmy Joseph Ipiphi NAMANGALE (b. 01.06.1962)
(Male)
1998 (Ph.D.) Some contributions to queueing theory, University
of Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom); Advisor: Damodar Shanbhag.
- Willy MWAKAPENDA (b. 14.06.1966) (Male)
2000 (Ph.D.) On using everyday experiences in teaching secondary
mathematics in Malawi: Possibilities and constraints for change,
Deakin University (Melbourne, Australia); Advisors: Susie Groves
& Elizabeth Buckingham.
- MAD Eunice
Gogo MPHAKO (b. 03.043.1968) (Female) .
2001 (Ph.D.) Tutte Polynomials, Chromatic Polynomials and Matroids,
Victoria University of Wellington (Wellington, New Zealand);
Advisor Geoff Whittle.
- Eric Chester MWAMBENE (b. 21.03.1967) (Male)
2001 (Ph.D.) Representing Graphs on Groupoids, Symmetry and Form,
University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria); Advisor: Gert Sabidussi.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown:
Mali
Mauritania
- El Khalil O. MOHAMDI (b. 31.12.1958) (Male)
1988 (Doctorat unique) Elimination Réduite [Reduced elimination],
Université L.Pasteur (Strasbourg, France); Advisor: J.
P. Jouanolou.
- Ould Ahmed Izid Bih ISSELKOU (b. 31.12.1961)
(Male)
1991 (Doctorat unique) Problèmes Semilinéaires
Elliptiques dans des Domaines Bornés et non Bornés
[Existence and Nonexistence Results for Nonlinear Elliptic Problems
on Bounded and Unbounded Domains], Université d'Orléans
(Orléans, France); Advisor: Alice Simon.
- Sid'Ahmed Ahmed LESSIAD (b.31/12/1964) (Male)
1997 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) Quantification par déformations
des structures de Poisson quadratiques en dimensions 3 et 4 [Deformations
Quantization of quadratic Poisson structures in dimensions 3
and 4], Faculté des Sciences Semlalia (Marrakech, Morrocco);
Advisor: Thami Az-Eddine.
- Khalil EL MEHDI (b. 20.12.1967) (Male)
1998 (Ph.D.) Sur un problème de type Yamabe: L'effet topologique
des points critiques a l'infini [On a Yamabe type problem: The
topological effect of critical points at infinity], Université
Tunis II (Tunis, Tunisia); Advisor: Abbas Bahri (Rutgers University,
New Jersey, USA).
- Toka DIAGANA (b. 27.12.1967) (Male)
1999 (Doctorat unique) Sommes d'opérateurs et conjecture
de Kato-McIntosh [Sums of Linear Operators and Kato-McIntosh's
Conjecture], Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (Lyon,
France); Advisor: J. B. Baillon.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown: Daouda
SANGARÉ, Sidi Békaye SOKONA
Mauritius
- Chan Feng CHAN MAN FONG (b. 19.06.1938) (Male)
1965 (Ph.D.) Some stability problems in the theory of flow of
elastico-viscous liquids, University of Wales (Aberystwyth, United
Kingdom); Advisors: T.V. Davies & K. Walters.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown:
Morocco
- Nouzha EL YACOUBI (b. 24.04.1950) (Female)
.
1978 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) Sur les Modules Topologiques
et Bornologiques [On topological and bornological modules], Université
de Rabat (Rabat, Morocco); Mohamed Akkar.
1995 (Doctorat d'état) Sur les Algèbres Topologiques
non Associatives [On non-associative topological algebras], Université
de Rabat (Rabat, Morocco); Advisor: Mohamed Akkar.
- Habiba EL BOUAZZAOUI (Female)
.
1982 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) Etude de situations scolaires
des premiers enseignements du nombre et de la numération.
Relations entre divers caractères de ses situations et
le sens, la compréhension de l'apprentissage de ces notions
[Study of school situations of the first teaching of number and
numeration. Relationships between diverse characters of these
situations and the meaning, the understanding of the learning
of these notions]. Université Bordeaux 1 (Bordeaux, France);
Advisor: Guy Brousseau.
1988 (Ph.D.) Conceptions des élèves et des professeurs
a propos de la notion de continuité d'une fonction [Pupils'
and teachers' conceptions concerning the notion of continuity
of a function], Université Laval (Québec, Canada);
Advisors: Claude Gaulin & Guy Brousseau.
- Mohamed ABALLAGH (Male)
1988 (Doctorat) Raf al-Hijab d'Ibn al-Banna (critical edition,
French translation, philosophical study and mathematical analysis),
Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris,
France).
- Mohammed BAHRA (Male)
1995 (Thèse d'Université). Problèmes de
didactique de la numération; échecs et succès
de la re-mathématisation [Problems of the didactics of
numeration; failures and successes of re-mathematisation], Université
Bordeaux 1 (Bordeaux, France); Advisor: Guy Brousseau.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown: Mohamed
AKKAR,
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
- Chike Edozien Umuezei OBI (b. 21.04.1921)
(Male)
1950 (Ph.D.) Periodic Solutions of Non-linear Differential
Equations of Second Order, University of Cambridge (Cambridge,
UK); Advisors: Mary Lucy Cartwright & J. E. Littlewood.
- Adegoke OLUBUMMO (19.04.1923 26.10.1992)
(Male)
1955 (Ph.D.) Studies in the Theory of Linear Spaces, University
of Durham (Castle-Upon-Tyne, UK); Advisor: Werner Rogosinski.
- James Okoye Chucuka EZEILO (Male)
1959 (Ph.D.) Some topics in the theory of non-linear differential
equations of the third order, University of Cambridge (Cambridge,
England UK).
1989 (D.Sc. honoris causa), University of Maiduguri (Nigeria)
1995 (D.tech. honoris causa), Federal University of Technology
(Akure, Nigeria)
1996 (D.Sc. honoris causa), University of Nigeria (Nsukka, Nigeria)
- Grace ALELE WILLIAMS (Female)
.
1963 Ph.D. Mathematics Education University of Chicago
- Alexander Obiefoka Enukora ANIMALU (b. 28.08.1938)
(Male)
1965 (Ph.D.) Model Potential in Solids, University of
Ibadan (Ibadan, Nigeria); Advisor: Volker Heine.
- Sunday Osarumwense IYAHEN (b. 03.10.1937)
(Male)
1967 (Ph.D.) On certain classes of linear topological spaces,
University of Keele (Keele, England); Advisor: Alexander Robertson.
1987 (D.Sc.) University of Keele (Keele, England).
- MAD Augustine
ESOGBUE (b. ) (Male)
1968 (Ph.D.) University of Southern California (Los Angeles,
USA); Advisor: Richard E. Bellman.
- Boniface EKE (b. 06.06.1933) (Male)
1969 (Ph.D.) Structure of Inseparable Composites, Iowa State
University (USA); Advisor: Bernard Vinograde.
- MAD John C.
AMAZIGO (male)
1970 Ph.D. Harvard University
- Olusola AKINYELE (b. 11.05.1944) (Male)
1971 (Ph.D.) Studies in Abstract Harmonic Analysis on Semigroups,
University of Ibadan (Ibadan, Nigeria), Advisor: Adegoke Olubummo.
- MAD Samuel
A. ILORI
(1971) PHD Oxford University (ENGLAND)
- Aderemi Oluyomi KUKU (b. 20.03.1941) (Male)
1971 (Ph.D.) On the Whitehead group of p-adic integral group-rings
of finite p-groups, University of Ibadan (Ibadan, Nigeria); Advisor:
Hyman Bass.
- Ethelbert Nwakuche CHUKWU (b. 22.11.1940)
(Male)
1972 (Ph.D.) Symmetries and Identification of Linear Control
Systems, Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, USA);
Advisor: Otomar Hájek.
- Christopher Olutunde IMORU (Male)
1972 (Ph.D.) The Jensen-Steffensen Inequality, Northwestern University
(Evanton, Illinois, USA); Advisor: Ralph P. Boas Jr.
- George Olatokunbo OKIKIOLU
1972 (Ph.D)
- MAD Kevin Ejere
OSONDU
1974 Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo; thesis: A
Unified Theory of Extension of Bins to Semigroups and of Semigroups
to Groups; Advisor: Dov Tamari
- MAD Bola O.
BALOGUN (b. 1943) (Male)
1975 Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles; thesis: Some
problems in Group Theory, advisor: E.G. Straus
- MAD Wandera
OGANA (b. May 1946)
1975 Ph.D Stanford University; thesis: Computation of steady
two-dimensional transonic flows by an integral equation method;
advisor: John R. Spreiter
- MAD David Olarewaju
OLAGUNJU
1981 Ph.D. Northwestern University; thesis: Bifurcation and
Stability of Propagating Oscillatory Flames; Advisor: Bernard
Matkowsky
- MAD Gabriel
Audu OYIBO (b 1952)
(1981) Ph.D. Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute; thesis: ?;
advisor George Handleman
- MAD Charles
Ejike CHIDUME (Male)
Ph.D. (1985) Ohio State University (USA); thesis: ITERATIVE
METHODS AND NONLINEAR FUNCTIONAL EQUATIONS; Advisor William
Jay Davis
- George Emese OKECHA (b. 04.04.1949) (Male)
1986 (Ph.D.) Numerical quadrature of singular and non-singular
integrals, University of Bradford (Bradford, England); Advisor:
David Hunter.
- Adewale Roland Tunde SOLARIN (b. 05.04.1954)
(Male)
1987 (Ph.D.) On finite Bol loops, Obafemi Awolowo University
(Ile-Ife, Nigeria); Advisor: Bhagirath Lal Sharma.
- Anthony Nnemeka EKE (b. 12.02.1949) (Male)
1990 (Ph.D.) Contributions to Nonlinear Functional Differential
Equations, University of Nigeria (Nsukka, Nigeria); Advisors:
C. E. Chidume & James O. C. Ezeilo.
- Livinus Ugochukwu UKO (b. 24.06.1960) (Male)
1990 (Ph.D.) Numerical solution of variational inequalities
(in Italian), Universita degli studi di Milano (Milan, Italy);
Advisor: Claudio Baiocchi.
- Yewande OLUBUMMO (b. 08.02.1960) (Female)
.
1991 (Ph.D.) Measures on empirical logics and the properties
of their associated dual Banach spaces, University of Massachusetts
(Amherst, USA); Advisor: Thurlow Cook.
- MAD Abba GUMEL
1993 Ph.D. Computational Mathematics , Brunel University, (England).
- Nkechi Madonna Adeleine AGWU (b. 10.08.1962)
(Female) .
1995 (Ph.D.) Using a Computer Laboratory Setting to Teach
College Calculus, Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York,
USA); Advisor: Howard Johnson.
- Oluwole Daniel MAKINDE (b. 12.12.1967) (Male)
1996 (Ph.D.) Laminar Flow in Channels and Tubes of Varying
Cross-Section, University of Bristol (Bristol, United Kingdom);
Advisor: P. G. Drazin.
- Ezekiel Olusola AYOOLA (b. 26.09.1958) (Male)
1999 (Ph.D.) On Numerical Procedures For Solving Lipschitzian
Quantum Stochastic Differential Equations, University of
Ibadan (Ibadan, Nigeria); advisor: G. O. S. Ekhaguere.
- Olusola C. IDOWU (b. 23.04.1970)
2000 (Ph.D.) Simulations of acoustic turbulence and dynamic
action in irrotational flows, University of Newcastle (Newcastle,
England)
- James Adedayo OGUNTUASE (Male)
2001 (Ph.D.) On weighted norm inequalities for a certain class
of integral operators, Obafemi Awolowo University (Ile-Ife,
Nigeria); Advisor: Christopher Olutunde Imoru
- John
Olusola ADENIRAN (27.06.1969)
(Male)
2002 (Ph.D.) The Study of Certain Classes of Loops via their
Bryant-Schneider groups, University of Agriculture (Abeokuta,
Nigeria); Advisor: Adewale Roland Tunde Solarin.
- Sammani Danwawu
ABDULLAHI (b. 01.08.1969)
2003 (Ph.D.) Vertex Enumeration and Counting for Certain Classes
of Polyhedra, Leeds University (Leeds, U.K.); Advisors: L.
G. Proll & Martin Dyer.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown:
Iya Abubakar,
Adeniran Adeboye,
Samson A. Adeleke,
John O. Adeyeye,
Matthew Adigun,
, Edet Peter AKPAN, Sam ALE, Alexander O. E. ANIMALU, James EZEILO,
Simeon Ola FATUNLA, Peter LASSA, Babagana Alhaji Madu, Abdussalaam
SAMBO
Réunion
We do not know of anyone from this country with a Ph.D. in Mathematics
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown:
Rwanda
- Augustin BANYAGA (b. 31.03.1947) (Male)
1976 (Docteur es Sciences Mathématiques) Sur la structure
des groupes de diffeomorphismes qui preservent une forme symplectique
ou une forme de contact regulière [On the structure of
the groups of diffeomorphisms preserving a symplectic form or
a regular contact form], Université de Génève
(Geneva, Switzerland); Advisor: André Haefliger.
- Désiré KARANGWA (b. 1952) (Male)
1988 (doctorat) Une étude analytique sur le comportement
à longe terme du système Galléen de Jupiter
[An analytical study of the long term behaviour of the Gallean
system of Jupiter], Université de Namur (Namur, Belgium).
- Philippe RUKIMBIRA (b. 07.05.1960) (Male)
1991 (Ph.D.) Some Properties of Almost Contact Flows, Pennsylvania
State University (University Park, Pennsylvania, USA), Advisor:
Augustin Banyaga.
- Jean-Baptiste GATSINZI (b. 24.05.1963) (Male)
1993 (Doctorat) Sur l'espace classifiant les fibrations de fibre
donnée (Homotopy type of classifying spaces), Université
Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium); Advisor: Yves
Felix.
- Issa KAGABO (b. 1967) (Male)
1998 (Ph.D.) Contribution à la résolution du problème
de transport continu [Contribution to the solution of the continuous
transport problem], Université de Montréal (Montréal,
Canada); Advisor: Serge Dubuc.
- René-Michel SHUMBUSHO (Male)
2004 (Ph.D.) Elliptic Curves with Prime Conductor and a Conjecture
of Cremona, University of Georgia (Athens GA, USA); Advisor:
Dino Lorenzini.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown: Jean-Pierre
LUHANDJULA
Senegal
- Souleymane NIANG (b. 12.1929) (Male)
1964 Doctorat d'état Université de Toulouse (Toulouse,
France);
- Galaye DIA (Male)
1977 Doctorat 3ème cycle Closed convex bounded valued
integrals, Université de Dakar (Dakar, Senegal); Advisor:
Doudou Sakhir Thiam.
1986 Doctorat d'état titre en Français [Order
Statistics on the point Process. Estimation of the regression],
Université Paris VI - Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France);
Advisor: Jean Geffroy.
- MAD Oumar DIOUME
1978 Doctorate in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics, Université
Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) Paris, France;
1992) Ph.D. Applied Industrial Engineering Mathematics, Ecole
Polytechnique, Montreal (Canada).
- MAD Mary Teuw NIANE (b. 15.07.1954)
(Male)
1984 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) Approximation polyédrale
d'une fonction convexe SCI et Application à l'optimisation
vectorielle [Polyhedral approximation of a convex function SCI
and application to vector optimisation], Université Cheik
Anta Diop (Dakar, Senegal); Advisor: Doudou Sakhir Thiam.
1990 (Doctorat unique) Régularité et contrôlabilité
exacte de l'équation des plaques vibrantes dans un domaine
polygonal [Regularity and exact controllability of the equation
of vibrating sheets in a polygonal domain], Université
de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis (Nice, France); Advisor: Pierre Grisvard.
1990 (Doctorat d'état) Régularité, contrôlabilité
exacte et contrôlabilité spectrale de l'équation
des ondes et de l'équation des plaques vibrantes [Regularity,
exact controllability and spectral controllability of the wave
equation and the equation of vibrating sheets], Université
Cheik Anta Diop (Dakar, Senegal); Advisor: Pierre Grisvard.
- MAD Gane Samb LO (Male)
1986 (Doctorat unique) On some estimators of the index of the
Paretolaw and limit theorems for extreme value sums, Université
Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France); Advisor:
Paul Deheuvels.
1991 (Doctorat d'état) Caractérisation empirique,
des extrèmes et questions statistiques liées [Empirical
characterisation, extremes and related statistical questions],
Université C. A. Diop (Dakar, Senegal); Advisor: Paul
Deheuvels.
- MAD Malick
Ndiaye
Ph.D. (1986), Tours-Orleans(France) Mathematical Analysis and
Applications;
thesis: Advisor: Professor Hector Giacomini.
- MAD Abdoulaye Elimane KANE (b. 1943)
(Male)
1987 (Doctorat d'état) Les systèmes de numération
parlée des groupes ouest-atlantiques et Mandé.
Contribution à la recherche sur les fondements et l'histoire
de la pensée logique et mathématique en Afrique
de l'Ouest [The spoken numeration systems of the West-Atlantic
groups and the Mande. Contribution to the research on the foundations
and the history of logical and mathematical thought in West Africa],
Université de Lille III (Lille, France).
- Aboubakary DIAKHABY (Male)
1992 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) Estimation de la densité
et de la régression dans les processus ponctuels chromatiques
[Estimation of the density and the regression in chromatic punctual
processes], Université C. A. Diop (Dakar, Senegal); Advisor:
Galaye Dia.
- Kalifa BODIAN (Male)
1994 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) Observabilité spectrale
approchée de l'équation des ondes [Approached spectral
observability of the wave equation], Université Gaston
Berger (Saint-Louis, Senegal); Advisor: Mary Teuw Niane.
- Aliou DIOP (Male)
1995 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) Estimation de la queue d'une
fonction de répartition, Approximation dans le domaine
extrémal et Application au calcul de Probabilités
extrémales [Estimation of the tail of a repartition fuction,
approximation in the extremal domain and application to the calculation
of extremal probabilities], Université Gaston Berger (Saint-Louis,
Senegal); Advisor: Gane Samb Lo.
2004 (Doctorat d'état) Comportement extrémal de
processus non linéaires [Extremal behaviour of non-linear
processes], Université Gaston Berger (Saint-Louis, Senegal);
Advisors: Gane Samb Lo & Dominique Guégan.
- Aissa WADE (b. 1967) (Female)
.
1996 (Doctorat unique) Normalisation de structures de Poisson
[Normalisation of Poisson structures], Université de Montpellier
2 (Montpellier, France); Advisor: Jean-Paul Dufour.
- Oumar Demba MBODJ (Male)
1997 (Doctorat unique) Codes cycliques et Sommes de Gauss [Cyclic
codes and Gauss sums], Université de Toulon et du Var
(Toulon, France); Advisor: Jacques Wolfmann.
- Abdou SÈNE (Male)
1999 (Doctorat unique) Analyse Asymptotique des plaques piezo-électriques
et contrôlabilité exacte [Assymptotic analysis of
piezo-electric sheets and exact controllability], Université
de Grenoble 1 - Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France); Advisors:
Annie Raoult & Mary Teuw Niane.
- Mamadou SY (Male)
2003 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) Paramétrisation en mécanique
des fluides : analyses mathématiques de quelques modèles
[Parameterisation in fluid mechanics: mathematical analysis of
some models], Université Gaston Berger (Saint-Louis, Senegal);
Advisors: Didier Bresch & Mary Teuw Niane.
- Mamadou Abdoul DIOP (Male)
2003 (Doctorat unique) Equations aux dérivées partielles
stochastiques et homogénéisation [Equations with
stochastic partial derivatives and homogenisation], Université
de Provence (Aix-Marseille, France); Advisor: Etienne Pardoux.
- Ngalla DJITTÉ (Male)
2004 (Doctorat Unique) Systèmes Différentiels extérieurs
et Applications aux problèmes inverses [Exterior differential
systems and applications to inverse problems], Université
Paris IX Dauphine (Paris, France); Advisors: Ivar Ekland &
Mary Teuw Niane.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown: Cherif
BADJI, Hamet SEYDI,
Sierra Leone
- Lennox Samuel Onipede LIVERPOOL (b. 24.06.1946)
(Male)
1971 (Ph.D.) Analytic Functions and Iteration Theory,
Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London
(London, England, UK); Advisor: Irving Noel Baker.
- Abimbola Sylvester YOUNG (b. 22.08.1947)
(Male)
1974 (Ph.D.) Prediction analysis with some types of regression
functions, University of London (London, UK); Advisor: Dennis
V. Lindley
- MAD Tanniemola
Blackett LIVERPOOL (b. April 20, 1971)
Ph.D. (1995) University of Cambridge; thesis: A Stochastic
Approach to Decribing Geological Systems; Advisor: Sir S.
F. Edwards
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown:
South Africa
- Ismael Jacob MOHAMED (b. 1930) (Male)
1961 (Ph.D.) On Series of Subgroups Related to Groups of Automorphisms,
University of London (London, UK).
- Batmanathan Dayanand REDDY (b. 1953) (Male)
1977 (Ph.D.) The Elastic and Plastic Buckling of Circular Cylinders
in Bending, Cambridge University (Cambridge, UK); Advisor: C.
R. Calladine, FRS.
- Nigel Tempest BISHOP (b. 11.09.1951) (Male)
1977 (Ph.D.) A trip through gravitation theory, University of
Southampton (Southampton, U.K.); Advisor: P. T. Landsberg.
- Anna Francina HARDING (nee MEIRING) (b. 21.2.1952)
(Female)
1981 (D.Sc.) Numerical Studies of Reaction-Diffusion in Physiological
Processes. University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa); Advisors:
J. A. Snyman (Pretoria) & R. Mitchell (Dundee, Scotland).
- Barbara SWART (b. 13.2.1956) (Female) .
1983 (Ph.D.) Numerical solution of hyperbolic partial differential
equations, University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa); Advisor:
Tunc Geveci.
- Norma C. Presmeg (Female)
.
1985 (Ph.D.) The Role of Visually Mediated Processes in High
School Mathematics: A Classroom Investigation, University of
Cambridge (Cambridge, UK); Advisor: Alan Bishop.
- Jan PERSENS (b. 1946) (Male)
1986 (Ph.D.) On Stabilizing ill-posed Problems for Partial Differential
Equations under Perturbations of the Geometry of the Domain,
Cornell University (Ithaca NY, USA); Advisor: Lawrence E. Payne.
- MAD Dominic
P. CLEMENCE
Ph.D. (1988)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- John David VOLMINK (Male)
1988 (Ph.D.) Acquisition of Concepts and Constructions of Meaning
in Geometry, Cornell University (Ithaca NY, USA); Advisor: David
Henderson.
- Richard Llewellyn FRAY (b. 04.04.1951) (Male)
1989 (Ph.D.) Group near-rings, University of Stellenbosch (Stellenbosch,
South Africa); Advisor: A. P. J. van der Walt.
- Sentsho Philip MASHIKE (b. 1939) (Male)
1990 (D.Phil.) Morse - Sturm Theory for systems of fourth-order
singular differential equations, University of South Africa (Pretoria,
South Africa); Advisor: H. S. P. Grasser.
- Stuart Donald WALLACE (b. 1939) (Male)
1990 (Ph.D.) The development of a multilevel problem-solving
programme in mathematics for the primary school, University of
Natal (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa); Advisors: Robert Muir
& Norma Presmeg.
- Michael David DE VILLIERS (b. 06.08.1956)
(Male)
1990 (D.Ed.) Leerlinge se betekenisgewing aan bewysvoering en
verwante wiskundige prosesse [Students' construction of meaning
for proof and related mathematical processes], University of
Stellenbosch (Stellenbosch, South Africa); Advisor: Piet Human
- MAD Sizwe Gladwell
MABIZELA (b: October 1962)
1991 Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University; thesis: Parametric
Approximation; Advisor: Frank Deutsch
- MAD Joseph
APALOO (Male)
1994 PhD University of Montana; thesis: A Mathematical Theory
of Evolution of Ecological Communities; Advisor: Robert McKelvey
- David Roy TAYLOR (b. 04.03.1966) (Male)
1994 (Ph.D.) Symmetries and Dynamics of Relativistic Gases and
Fluids, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Johannesburg,
South Africa); Advisor: Roy Maartens
- Jillian Beryl ADLER (nee Smidt) (b. 31.01.1951)
(Female) .
1996 (Ph.D.) Secondary School Teachers' Knowledge of the Dynamics
of Teaching and Learning mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms,
University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa).
- Sudan HANSRAJ (b. 21.09.1965) (Male)
1999 (Ph.D.) Exact Solutions and Conformal Transformations in
General Relativity, University of Natal (Durban, South Africa);
Advisor: Sunil Maharaj.
- Renuka VITHAL (Female)
.
2000 (Ph.D.) In Search of a Pedagogy of Conflict and Dialogue
for Mathematics Education, Aalborg University (Aalborg, Denmark);
Advisor: Ole Skovmose.
- Meria HOCKMAN (b. 1950) (Female)
.
2001 (Ph.D.) The development of levels of awareness of senior
mathematics students through direct engagement with the mathematical
subject and pedagogical matter, University of the Witwatersrand
(Johannesburg, South Africa); Advisor: Paul Laridon.
- Mogege David MOSIMEGE (b. 28.01.1961) (Male)
2001 (Ph.D.) The potential of the use of cultural specific games
in school mathematics, University of the Western Cape (Bellville,
South Africa); Advisor: Cyril Julie.
- MAD Iris Gugu
MOCHE (Female)
2002 (Ph.D.) The Natural Map of beta (omega x omega) into beta
(omega) x beta(omega) is 'Very Badly' Not an Isomorphism on the
Smallest Ideal, Howard University (Washington DC, USA); Advisor:
Neil Hindman.
- Mellony GRAVEN (b. 26.06.1968) (Female) .
2002 (Ph.D.) An investigation of teachers learning to become
professionalized mathematics teachers: The centrality of confidence,
University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa);
Advisor: Jill Adler.
- David MOGARI (b. 1965) (Male)
2002 (Ph.D.) An ethnomathematical approach to the teaching and
learning of some geometrical concepts, University of the Witwatersrand
(Johannesburg, South Africa); Advisor: Paul Laridon.
- Mamokgethi SETATI (b. 01.11.1966) (Female)
.
2002 (Ph.D.) Language practices in intermediate multilingual
mathematics classroom, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg,
South Africa); Advisor: Jill Adler.
- Mathume Enoka BOPAPE (Male)
2002 (Ph.D.) Mathematics school based in-service training (SBINSET):
A study of factors contributing towards success or failure of
SBINSET in the South African schools context, Aalborg University
(Aalborg, Denmark); Advisor: Ole Skovmose.
- Margot BERGER (b. 1953) (Female)
.
2003 (Ph.D.) Ways of thinking: A study of students studying a
first-year mathematics course at the University of the Witwatersrand,
University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa);
Advisor: Jill Adler.
- Larry KANNEMEYER (b. 1956) (Male)
2003 (Ph.D.) The Development of a Reference Framework for Measuring
Students' Understanding in a First Year Calculus Class, University
of the Western Cape (Cape Town, South Africa); Advisors: Tyrgve
Breiteig, Jan Persens & Ole Einar Torkildsen.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown: Matthew
ADIGUN, MAD Themba DUBE,
Sudan
- Mohamed El Amin Ahmed EL TOM (b. 02.10.1941)
(Male)
1969 (D. Phil.) Numerical Approximation of Functions of One or
More Variables, Oxford University (Oxford, England); Advisor:
David Handscomb.
- Mohamed O. EL-DOMA (b. 01.01.1956) (Male)
1986 (Ph.D.) Analysis of nonlinear integro-differential equations
arising in age-dependent epidemic models, Claremont Graduate
School (Claremont, California, U.S.A.); Advisor: Stavros N. Busenberg.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown:
Swaziland
- Melusi KHUMALO (Male)
1998 (Ph.D.) Dynamics of Numerics of Linearized Collocation Methods,
Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada); Advisor: E. Andrew
Foster.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown:
Tanzania
- Ali Seif A. MSHIMBA (b. 31.01.1948) (Male)
1979 (Dr.rer.nat.) Konstruktion von Lösungen nichtlinearer
elliptischer Differential-gleichungssysteme erster Ordnung in
der Ebene durch komplexe Methoden im Sobolev - Raum W sub {1,p}
(G) (insbesondere Lösung des Dirichlet - Randwertproblems
mit Randwerten aus dem Slobodeckij - Raum W sub {s,p} (L), s
= 1 - 1/p) [Construction of Solutions of Nonlinear Systems of
Elliptic Differential Equations of First Order in the Plane Using
Complex Methods in the Sobolev Space W sub{1,p} (G) ( in Particular
the Solution of the Dirichlet Boundary Value Problem with Boundary
Values from the Slobodeckij Space W sub {s, p}(L), s = 1 - 1/p
)], Martin Luther University (Halle - Wittenberg, Germany); Advisor:
Wolfgang Tutschke.
- Luckson Muganyizi KAINO (b. 26.03.56) (Male)
1994 (Dr.rer.nat.) Curriculum and Modelling in numerical analysis
at high school and undergraduate levels, University of Salzburg
(Salzburg, Austria); Advisor: Karl Parisot.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown:
Togo
- Pascal Kossivi ADJAMAGBO (b. 1956) (Male)
1981 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) Déterminant non-communicatif
et systèmes differentiels [Skew determinant and differential
systems], Université de Paris 6 (Paris, France); Advisor:
Jean Vaillant.
1991 (Doctorat d'état) Fondements de la théorie
des déterminants sur un domaine de Ore [Fundaments of
the theory of determinants on an Ore domain], Université
de Paris 6 (Paris, France); Advisor: Jean Vaillant.
- Kokou
Yano L. D. ABALO (b. 28.09.1955)
(Male)
1994 (Ph.D.) Berge and Nash Games: Existence Theorems and Applications,
Clemson University (USA); Advisor: Michael M. Kostreva
- Kinvi KANGNI (b. 24.07.1958) (Male)
1994 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) Transformation et Représentation
Sphériques de type S [Spherical transformation and representation
of type S], Université de Cocody (Abidjan, Côte
d'Ivoire); Advisor: Saliou Touré.
2000 (Doctorat d'état) Distribution et Transformation
de Fourier Sphériques de type S [Spherical distribution
and Fourier transformation of type S], Université de Cocody
(Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire); Advisor: Saliou Touré.
- Kokou DOSSOU (b. 1966) (Male)
2000 (Ph.D.) Résolution numérique des équations
de Von Kármán [Numerical solution of Von Kármán
equations], Université Laval (Québec, Canada);
Advisor: Roger Pierre.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown:
Tunisia
- Mohamed SOUISSI (b. 1915) (Male)
1969 (Doctorat d'état) La langue des mathématiques
en arabe [Arabic mathematical language], Université de
la Sorbonne (Paris, France); Advisor: Charles Pellat.
- Mahdi ABDELJAOUAD (b. 1942) (Male)
1970 (Ph.D.) On automorphisms and derivations of algebras [A
propos des automorphismes et des derivations des algebras], University
of Washington (Seattle, USA); Advisor: James Jans.
- Noureddine SASSI (b. 1944) (Male)
1993 (Doctorat d'état) Représentation de l'autre
et de soi par rapport à la langue maternelle et aux mathématiques
dans le premier cycle de l'enseignement secondaire tunisien [Representation
of the other and of the self in relationship to the mother tongue
and mathematics in the first level of the Tunisian secondary
school], Université de Nantes (Nantes, France).
- Hanène HATTAB ABROUGUI (b. 1969) (Female)
.
1998 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) La démonstration en
géométrie dans l'enseignement secondaire tunisien
: exigences d'enseignants et difficultés d'élèves
de 4ème relativement à un problème de démonstration
[Proof in geometry in the Tunisian secondary school: teachers'
demands and and 4th grade pupils difficulties concerning a type
of proof], Université de Grenoble 1 (Grenoble, France);
Advisor: Colette Laborde.
- Mondher TANGOUR (b. 1956) (Male)
1999 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) Analyse des acquisitions des
élèves en mathématiques et en sciences en
première année de collège tunisien [Analysis
of the acquisitions in mathematics and science by the pupils
of the first year of the Tunisian high school], Université
de Bourgogne (Bourgogne, France); Advisor: Jean-Pierre Jarousse.
- Ridha SFAXI (b. 17.03.1967) (Male)
2001 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) Les suites de polynômes
diagonales par rapport à x-c [Diagonal polynomial sequences
with respect to x-c], Faculté des sciences de Sfax (Sfax,
Tunisia), Advisors: Pascal Maroni & Jilani Alaya.
- Mohamed Habib MARSIT (Male)
2001 (Doctorat d'état) Approche psychocognitive diagnostique
des difficultés d'apprentissage des mathématiques
[Diagnostic psycho-cognitive approach to learning difficulties
in mathematics], Université de Tunis (Tunis, Tunisia);
Advisor: Noureddine Sassi.
- Essahbi EL AMRI (Male)
2001 (Doctorat 3ème cycle) Implicite et évidence
dans l'enseignement et l'apprentissage de la démonstration
en géométrie euclidienne plane au collège
[Implicit and evidence in the teaching and learning of the proof
in Euclidian plane geometry in high school], Université
Claude Bernard - Lyon I (Lyon, France); Advisor: Claude Tisseron.
- Marouane BEN MILED (b. 1965) (Male)
2003 (Doctorat) Les commentaires arabes au Livre X des Eléments
d'Euclide, jusqu'au XIIe siècle [Arabic commentaries on
Book X of Euclid's Elements, up to the XIIth century], Université
Paris 7 Denis Diderot (Paris, France); Advisor: Roshdi
Rashed.
- Faïza CHELLOUGUI (b. 1965) (Female)
.
2004 (Doctorat) L'utilisation des quantificateurs universel et
existentiel en première année universitaire, entre
l'explicite et l'implicite [Using universal and existential quantifications
in first year university, switching between explicit and implicit
usages], co-tutelle: Université de Tunis (Tunis, Tunisia)
& Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I (Lyon, France);
Advisors: Mahdi Abdeljaouad & Claude Tisseron.
Ph.D. year, thesis, or advsior unknown:
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
3. Examples of African
Mathematical Pioneers in the 20th Century
(reproduction of Appendix 7 of: Gerdes, Paulus
& Djebbar, Ahmed: Mathematics in African History and Culture:
An Annotated Bibliography, African Mathematican Union, Cape Town,
2004, pp. 225-226)
Mohamed Akkar (Morocco)
Daniel Afedzi Akyeampong (Ph.D. 1966) (Ghana)
Morris Sika Alale (d. 1995) (Kenya)
Francis Kofi Ampenyia Allotey (b. 1931) (Ph.D. 1966) (Ghana) *
Mohamed Amara (Tunisia)
Attia Abdel Salam Ashour (b. 1924) (Egypt)
Augustin Banyaga (b. 1947) (Ph.D. 1976) (Rwanda) *
Benali Benzaghou (Ph.D. 1969) (Algeria) *
Mohammed Tidjani Boudjelkah (Ph.D. 1970) (Algeria)
Mohamed Djeddour (Ph.D. 1970) (Algeria)
Heneri Amos Murima Dzinotyiweyi (b. 1950) (Ph.D. 1979) (Zimbabwe)
Mohamed E. A. El Tom (b. 1941) (Ph.D. 1969) (Sudan) *
Philip Emeagwali (b. 1954) (Nigeria)
George Eshiwani (Ph.D. 1974) (Kenya)
James Okoye Chukuka Ezeilo (Nigeria)
Jean-Pierre Ezin (b. 1944) (Ph.D. 1981) (Benin) *
Caleb Gattegno (1911-1988) (Egypt)
Khélifa Harzallah (Tunisia)
Mohamed H. A. Hassan (Sudan)
Henri Hogbe-Nlend (Cameroon) *
Ahmed Jebli (Morocco)
Désiré Karangwa (b. 1952) (Ph.D. 1988) (Rwanda)
Idriss Khalil (Morocco) *
Akry Koulibaly (Ph.D. 1984) (Burkina Faso) *
Aderemi Oluyomi Kuku (Ph.D. 1971) (Nigeria)
Edward Lungu (b. 1950) (Ph.D. 1980) (Zambia)
Verdiana G. Masanja (Tanzania) ***
Ralph W. P. Masenge (Ph.D. 1988) (Tanzania)
Leila Moalla (Tunisia) ***
Ismael Jacob Mohamed (b. 1930) (Ph.D. 1960) (South Africa) **
Geoffrey Raphael Vehaeli Mmari (Tanzania) *
Moshe Molelekoa (Ph.D. 1982) *
Paul Mugambi (Uganda) *
Benjamin Mweene (Ph.D. 1970) (Zambia) *
John Nguthu Mutio (Kenya)
Souleymane Niang (b. 1929) (Senegal)
Georges Edward Njock (b. 1940) (Cameroon)
Loyiso Nongxa (b. 1954) (Ph.D. 1982) (South Africa)
Joachim Nzotungicimpaye (Ph.D. 1986) (Burundi)
Chike Obi (Ph.D. 1950) (Nigeria)
Wandera Ogana (b. 1946) (Ph.D. 1975) (Kenya)
Adegoke Olubummo (Ph.D. 1955) (Nigeria)
Jan Persens (Ph.D. 1986) (South Africa)
Patrick Phiri (Zambia)
Batmanathan Dayanand Reddy (b. 1953) (Ph.D. 1977) (South Africa)
George Saitoti (Ph. D. 1971) (Kenya) *
Daouda Sangaré (Mali)
Hamet Seydi (Senegal)
Juma Shabani (Burundi)
Saliou Touré (Côte d'Ivoire)
Grace Alele Williams (Nigeria) ***
Mohamed Zitouni (Ph.D. 1973) (Algeria)
* First Ph.D. in mathematical sciences of the
respective country
** First black South African to have obtained a Ph.D. in mathematics.
*** First female Ph.D. in mathematical sciences of the respective
country