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Ejembi Onah President Focus Nanotechnology Africa Inc(FONAI) |
Abstract:
African nanoscience and nanotechnology are at a very primary stage of development. There is no serious government commitment in terms of funding but there are increasing interests. There are some governmentsponsored initiatives in South Africa and Nigeria which was started Focus Nanotechnology Africa Inc.(FONAI). Nanotechnology in Africa is built strongly at this present stage on individual investigators around nanomaterials, nanochemistry, nanoenergy, nanomedicine, nanosensor, nanoagriculture, etc. Majority of the 53 countries in Africa has nanoscience and nanotechnology presence with the heaviest density in South Africa. One of the objectives of FONAI-USEACANI is to catalyze nanoscience and nanotechnology in Africa with its proposed budget of $10 billion for next ten years. The distribution of individual investigators and fields among countries are given as follows.
October 27th, 2009
African Nanoscience and nanotechnology
Dr Ejembi John Onah
Founding President Focus Nanotechnology Africa Inc (FONAI), Ithaca USA
Chairman Steering Committee,US-EU-Africa-Asia-Pacific and Caribbean Nanotechnology Initiative ( USEACANI), CO-Chair-US-EU-Africa-Asia-Pacific and Caribbean Academy of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (USEACANN) and Editor-In-Chief, Journal Nanotechnology Progress International (JONPI).
African Nanoscience and nanotechnology:
African nanoscience and nanotechnology are at a very primary stage of development. There is no serious government commitment in terms of funding but there are increasing interests. There are some governmentsponsored initiatives in South Africa and Nigeria which was started Focus Nanotechnology Africa Inc.(FONAI). Nanotechnology in Africa is built strongly at this present stage on individual investigators around nanomaterials, nanochemistry, nanoenergy, nanomedicine, nanosensor, nanoagriculture, etc. Majority of the 53 countries in Africa has nanoscience and nanotechnology presence with the heaviest density in South Africa. One of the objectives of FONAI-USEACANI is to catalyze nanoscience and nanotechnology in Africa with its proposed budget of $10 billion for next ten years. The distribution of individual investigators and fields among countries are given as follows.
Nanoenergy/ Nanomaterial
South Africa
D. Knoesen,
Sunny E. Iyuke
D. Britton
Aneli Fourie
KK Muller-Nedebock
WJ Perold
RD Sanderson
PS Steyn
C Theron
R. Knutsen
L. Lorenzen
Yunus Ballim
P. Ngoepe
Malik Maaza
Jimmy Volmink
Sekai Shambira
David McLachlan
Chris Pistorius
Ron Sanderson
P. Mjwara
J. Cawood
Arthur Every
Sudan
Mohamed Eisa,
Rafat Mohamed Ibrahim
F. I. Habbani
Osman Mai Eltag Mohamed
Algeria
F. Kavishe,
E.H. Amara
T. Gasmi
Nigeria
G Egharevba
S.O. Olabanji
F.I. Ezema
Benjamin Ezekoye
Benedict Gbaruko
Obinna Ofeogbu
Adewoye
Fasasi
Ethiopia
G. Tessema,
Ashok V. Gholap
Bantikassegn Workalemahu
A Asfaw
Lesotho
N.I. Manyala,
Spirit Tlali
Senegal
Sossé Ndiaye
Ahmadou Wague
Ahmadou Wague
Aboubaker Beye
Djibril Diop
Oumar Sakho
Tanzania
Joe Tesha
Yadon M. Kohi
R. A. Msuya
Ghana
K. Anane-Fenin,
P. Buah-Bassuah
Edwin P.D. Barnes
Akwasi Ayensu
Joseph O. Gogo
Egypt
Yosr Ezz El-Din
Fawzy Hussein Hammad
Sherif Hussein Kandil
Y. Badr
Y. E. Gamal
Benin
Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou,
C. M. Awanou
Tunisia
Mourad Telmini,
Zohra Ben Lakhdar
Zohra Ben Lakhdar
Cameroun
N.T.Gerard,
M. Kwato Njock
Morrocco
I Zorkani,
M. Semlali
Namibia
Elifas T.N. Bisanda,
S. SINGH
Rwanda
K.Marembo,
A.Niyibisi
Kenya
K Kaduki,
V. Otieno
Zambia
G. K. Chinyama,
G. Munyenne
G. Katumba, Zimbabwe
T. Stephen Sathiaraj, Botswana
Tom Otiti, Uganda
A.J. Varkey, Swaziland
T. Ndikumana, Burundi
Y. Idriss, Chad
V. Krou-Adohi, Ivory Coast
G. Ntchayi Mbourou, Gabon
Suleiman Musa El Hamali, Libya
M. Tandia, Mauritania
M. K. Edee, Togo
Nanosensor
E. Iwuoha, SA
Nanomedicine
Nigeria
Michael Adikwu
Anthony Atama
Charles O. Esimone
Jeff-Agboola, Y.A.
Akpa P.A
South Africa
V Pillay,
Ben Marais
Sekai Shambira
Ghana
K Ofori-Kwakye
Stanley Moffatt
Jean Marie Ndjaka, Cameroun
Nanoagriculture
Nigeria
Igbekele Ajibefun
G. Okafor
Owusu Essegbey, Ghana
Nanochemistry
South Africa
MS Scurell,
Aneli Fourie
Allen Rodgers
DS Mclachlan
RD Sanderson
Ron Sanderson
N. Torto, Botswana
I.Adraoui, Morrocco
Justin Irina, Kenya
Onyanobi Anyebe, Nigeria
Nanofiltration
Thembella Hillie, South Africa,
Hiophe, South Africa
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