Aug 4, 2019

The Bill Gates of Africa

By Jim Stroud • Issue #7 • View online

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The Bill Gates of Africa

President Bill Clinton described this Nigerian-American as “one of the great minds of the Information Age” and “The Bill Gates Of Africa.”

To his credit, this Nigerian-American:

Invented a formula that lets computers make 3.1 billion calculations per second and was also dubbed a “Father Of The Internet” by CNN. His original vision of connecting computers together was called Hyperball and it predicted weather patterns across the globe.
He is also a trailblazer in petroleum extraction.

Can you identify this scientific genius?

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By Jim Stroud

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