The African Philip Emeagwali, the internet inventor talks about his vision for Africa

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton calls it "African Bill Gates", but CNN, this 54 year old Nigerian computer is the father of the Internet. Gordon Bell Prize winner in 1989 (the highest award in computer science research), Philip Emeagwali has been working for decades to the industrialization of Africa because according to him: "Africa will perish if it continues to consume that it does not produce and produce what it does not consume. ".
In a lecture to the African community in Valencia in May 2008, he said that if nothing is done, the time to celebrate 100 years of the creation of the Organization of African Unity (now African Union) is a newspaper article be quoted as follows: "The last parts of the rainforest will soon disappear, crossed by pipelines and drilling platforms factories refining natural gas. Global pollution will be the legacy of future generations. Offshore oil reserves in Africa dried up. Oil facilities abandoned then become an object of attraction for tourists. The buildings that housed the offices and factories of oil companies will turn into ghost towns. In a world without oil, air travel will disappear, and people will start to cross the seas with steamships. Farmers will use horses instead of tractors. The false replace the combine. As crops diminish, famine will invade the world. Without the means to roll their vehicles, parents will stay at home, no job and children to walk to school. "
For Philip Emeagwali, it is certain as death that current reserves will not lead humanity more than 40 years, and instead of wondering when Africa will be the end of its natural resources, we can wonder that is Africa's oil and its raw materials
He continued his speech on the aspect intellectual capital and affirm: "Currently, the equivalent of 100 CFA francs in iron ore worth double once turned into pots for drinking and exported to Africa. The same amount will be worth 65,000 dollars, once transformed into needles in Asia, 5 million CFA francs in the form of bracelets watches in Europe .... Without African intellectual capital, iron extracted from Africa will continue to be processed in Europe and Africa to be exported in huge price. To break this pattern, the continent will promote creativity and education necessary to give value to its raw materials. Poverty is not the lack of money but lack of knowledge. "
The super computer genius, helped save the oil industry billions of CFA francs by contributing computer programs to solve the problem of leaking oil tanks. In the 80s, he invented the computer calculating the fastest in the world that gave her an advance user than a decade.

Philip Emeagwali holds three master's degrees in computer science, marine engineering, civil and environmental engineering and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics.
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