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To our records, the first three Mathematics Ph.D. earned by Africans were by the Nigerians Chike Obi (1950), Adegoke Olubummo (1955), and James Ezeilo (1958) who obtained their doctorates in mathematics from British Universities. For more read Mathematics in Nigeria Today. Grace Lele Williams became, in 1963, the first African woman to earn any doctorate in the Mathematical Sciences when she got her Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from the University of Chicago.

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South Africa, in US

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