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Prof. Okelo obtained his Medical Degree (MD) from the University of Kenya; DTM&H (Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) from the School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene of Liverpool, Diploma of MRCP (Member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians), FRCP (Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians) from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and MBCHB (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery/Chirurgy) Degree from the University of Calcutta in India.

He is Senior Consultant Physician – specialist in infectious diseases and a global authority on Echinococcosis.  He has served as Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Nairobi, and Director of Medical Services in the Government of Kenya. 

He has been Executive Director and Secretary General of  the African Academy of Sciences (AAS),  Executive Secretary of the Network of African Scientific Organizations (NASO), and Secretary of the Network of African Academy of Science (NASAC). He is member of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene of London and member of the Advisory Committee to the Editor (ACE) of the book Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries. He has 100 peer reviewed papers and is an elected Fellow of TWAS.

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Political science intellectual who courted controversy “My life is one long debate.” African scholar Prof Ali Mazrui’s life and work confirmed this description. From the contentious 1986 nine-part documentary produced by the BBC, The Africans: A Triple Heritage on the impact of indigenous culture, Islam and Christianity to his criticism of African socialism as a western import to undermine Africa’s development that made him to be viewed as neo-colonialist. The Kenya-born scholar, who was described as passionate, eloquent and charismatic, was both revered and criticised for his work. His critics, however, couldn’t deny the influence Prof Mazrui had on African
politics, international political culture, political Islam and globalisation. His writing still resonates with current scholars and some has proven to be prophetic. For example, one of his 47 books, Islam: Between Globalisation and Counter Terrorism, which explains how terrorism was ensnaring religion, gives insight into the current global concern on terrorism. He spoke of the value of Africa’s complex and multi-layered identity and culture, inspiring Africans to confront their identity and unsettling some western scholars. Lynne Cheney, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which funded his 1986 documentary dismissed it as an “antiwestern diatribe” that blamed “all the moral, economic and technological problems of Africa on the west”. His courage in challenging authority at a time that the euphoria of independence saw most Africans hero worshipping their liberators or heroes proved that democracy is built on accommodating divergent views and voices. In the 1970’s he fled Uganda after publicly criticising its then President Idi Amin who had invited him to be his chief adviser on international affairs. Unfortunately this lost him opportunities to work in Kenya. Indeed his views on the need to recognise national heroes, without worshipping them embodied his work as did his other
philosophies:

• Africa’s triple heritage, where he argued that modern Africa could be described by its three main influences: the colonial and imperialist legacy of the AAS 10th General Assembly speaker profiles Special Lectures west, the spiritual and cultural influence of Islam spreading from the east, and Africa’s own indigenous legacy.
• The Paradoxes of Africa, where he outlined six paradoxes central to the understanding of Africa: 

1) Africa was the birthplace of man, but the last to be made habitable in a modern sense. 
2) Africans have been the most humiliated group of people in modern history.
3) Africa is westernising very quickly.
4) Africa possesses extreme natural wealth, but its people are very poor.
5) Africa is huge, yet very fragmented.
6) Africa is geographically central, but politically marginal.
• The Problem of Africa’s Dependency, where he stated that the relationship between the developed world and Africa would not be beneficial to the latter as long as Africa remained dependent on the developed world. He also argued for restitution for Africa and other colonised countries.
• Africa’s Greatest Resource, where he believed that Africa’s greatest resource was its people who, however, need to remember their heritage and exert their influence in western policy if they were to find a voice on the global arena.

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Mohamed Hilmy Elnagdi was born in Egypt in September 1941.He graduated from the faculty of Science at Cairo University in 1962; since that date, Prof Elnagdi has worked at Cairo University , Faculty of Science , in the Chemistry Department. Prof Elnagdi obtained his M.Sc in 1966, PhD in 1969 and D.Sc in 1982.He also has been awarded a diploma in Applied Chemistry from Tokyo Institute of technology in 1973. Prof Elnagdi has been professor of organic chemistry at Cairo University since 1980. He worked as a professor of Organic Chemistry at Kuwait University from 1993 to 1999, then as visiting professor at the same university in 2003, then since 2007 till September 2014.

Professor Elnagdi has received fellowships from several institutions, including Tokyo institution of technology (Japan) NTNF Norway taken at University of Oslo 1977; Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Utah (USA) in 1976 with Prof L.B. Townsend; Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at the University of Bonn with Profs H. Wamhoff and R.Regitz. The Alexander von Humboldt has continually supported his activities in Germany, enabling him to cooperate with many German colleagues including Profs. K. Hafner (Darmstadt), K. S. Hatrki (Marburg), M. Hoffmann (Hannover) and H. H. Otto (Freiburg). Prof. Elnagdi has specialized in the synthesis of polyfunctional heterocycles and has published around 426 papers in this area of which 317 from Cairo University, 146 from Kuwait University and 42 papers from (German, French, Norwegian, Saudi, Iraqi, British and American institutes) as well as 30 review articles. The work has now 7005 citation with 167citation per paper and 36 h index. In addition, he got several national and regional research awards including TWAS Chemistry, COMESTECH awards, Cairo University career award and Egypt award for excellence.

Through his long career, he could develop several novel routes to biologically relevant heterocycles (> 1000 citation by others).

Moreover, prof. Elnagdi has published several books with international publishers as well as Arabic languages books to spread modern chemical knowledge in our country.

In addition, through his effort, more than 300 scholars could be trained through their theses to move in several areas of modern synthetic chemistry. Those are now the core staff of chemistry teaching and research in Egyptian and Arab universities and research leaders in petrochemical as well as pharmaceutical industries in Egypt and Arab universities.

In the last five years he could, through research and teaching, establish the concept of green synthesis that would have a great impact on modern Egyptian research and development in chemical petrochemistry industries.

Prof. Elnagdi has provided consultancy and small biologically interesting molecules to several multinationals including Basf (Germany), Bayer (Germany) , Glaxo Smith Klein (UK) , Shell researcher (UK) , Dupont (USA) , Loreal (France) , Specs and Biospecs (Holland) , Novarts (Switzerland) and several others enabling these foundations to apply for more than fifty patented activities of his products.

Elnagdi , through cooperation with Dye research units in Egypt , could also report on several novel potential dyes.

Prof. Okogun obtained his B.Sc. in 1963 and PhD in 1967 at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. He then held a position of lecturer in the same University, becoming Professor in 1977. He was Head of Chemistry Department, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Hall Master independence Hall, Hall Warden Independence Hall and sub Dean of Postgraduate  at the University of Ibadan.

His research interests include chemical investigation of Nigerian medicinal plants for the development of nutrition supplements/nutraceuticals and phytomedicines, isolation – analyses and modification of biologically active natural products for the purpose of developing potential drugs/leads – molecular probes and pesticides, degraded triterpenoid, gedunin and the diterpene roseanolone for the pupose of converting them into various transformation products for the structure activity studies, invesigation of Nigerian traditional herbal remedies for tuberculosis.

After 1995 he became associated with the Nigerian Institute Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) where he has served as Head of Department of Medicinal Plant Research and Traditional Medicine, as Honorary Adjunct Professor.  He has also served as Chairman of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Industrial Training Fund, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of the Chemical Society of Nigeria, Director of the Welton Energy and Equip Supplies.

He is member of the Alexander von Humboldt Darmstadt Technische Hochscule of Germany and several others professional societies. He has national, regional and international awards and recognitions and also has 125 publications.

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Paul Nchoji Nkwi (1940) is professor of African anthropology at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon. He studied anthropology and education at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and obtained his habilitation in the same university in 1982. He taught anthropology at the University of Yaounde, at the Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaounde, and at the St.Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary Bambui, Bamenda, Cameroon. He was visiting professor at Harvard Medical School, Department of Social Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia as a Fulbright Scholar, at the University of Frankfurt, Frobenius Institut as a Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa,Visiting Fellow at the University of Leiden (1982),and Research Fellow at the University of Bergen, Centre for Social Policy, (Bergen, Norway).

His main interest is in the dynamics of social change, especially the changing nature of local cultures in the face of modernisation. His main field-work is in Cameroon where he did field work among the Kom of the Western Grasfields. After publishing his thesis on traditional government and social change(1976), he went on to publish on the role of the "local elite in the promotion of development"(1994). Because of his interest in politics and history, he published with JP Warnier Elements for a history of the Western Grassfield (1982) and later on Traditional Diplomacy: A study in interchiefdom relations (1986). As a research fellow at the ASC, he published a booklet entitled Germans in the Western Grassfield (ASC Research report nr. 37). Having spent almost 12 years as an administrator of research in the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (helped establish a ten year cooperation agreement between Cameroon and ASC), he developed an interest in applied anthropology, especially medical anthropology and enviromental studies. For five years, he supervised a five-country research project on HIV/AIDS and Culture funded by UNFPA in Cameroon, Cote d''Ivoire, Kenya, Malawi and Togo. The findings of this piece of work are found on the UNFPA website. His interest in the development of anthropology on the African continent, led to the establsihment of the Pan African anthropological association, and recently he published an article entitled Anthropology in Postcolonial Africa: The Survival Debate published in the book "World Anthropologies" eds. Escobar and Arturo (2007).

At present he is preparing a monograph on the Kom People: History , Culture and Social Transformation:.While he is finishing this monograph while visiting ASC, he has put abay, his new research area, the book project Anthropology in Cameroon started several years ago with excepts published in the Journal The African Anthropologists", due to be published in late 2008.

Nkwi was the founding president of the Pan African Anthropological Association" 1989-1994. In 1973, he won the Frobenius Esasay Award to celebration the Centenary of Leo Frobenius. He has been Vice president of the African Academy of Sciences, and founding Executive Secretary of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences.

In his political career, he has served as the policy adviser and now shadow cabinet of the Cameroon Social Democratic Front (SDF), for Social Affairs, Youth development and Sport.

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Prof. Christophe Bouramoue was educated in Paris, France where he obtained his Doctorate in Medicine in 1968 and specialized in Cardiology in 1973. He has held many professional and administrative positions, including head of service of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Brazzaville, Congo, Associate Professor at the University of Marlen Ngouabi in Brazzaville from 1974-80; Professor of Cardiology in 1981; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, INSSA, from 1975-84; Minister of Health and Social Affairs from 1984-86; Minister for Scientific Research and Environment from 1986-88; and Rector of the University of Marien Ngouabi from 1992-95.

His honours include: Laureate from the French Academy of Medicine, 1973; Officier du Merite Gabonais, 1979; Officier du Merite Congolais 1981; Chevalier du Merite Senegalaise, 1982; Commandeur du Merite Congolais, 1985; Commandeur des Palmes Academiques Francaises, 1986 and Grand Officier du Merite Congolais, 1988.

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Dr Okidi obtained his M.Sc. in 1973 and PhD in 1975 from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, in Massachusetts (USA) in 1975 – 1976.

He became Research Fellow and Post-doctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Centre for International Studies. He then joined the Institute for development studies (IDS) of the University of Nairobi as Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow and Research Associate Fellow (1976 – 1988) and became a full professor in 2002. 

His research interests include international and comparative environmental policy, law and institutions, international water policy and law, the law of the sea, public international law, and law and development. He has served as Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law and Policy at the University of Nairobi and Dean of the Environmental Studies at Moi University and Senior Legal Officer and Task Manager and Chief of Unit at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

He has been a member of the Board of Management of the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute and member of the National Environment Council of Kenya’s supreme policy organ under the Environmental Management and Coordination.

Also, he served as Chairman of the Faculty Committee on Research and Chairman of the Governing Council of Kenya Water Institute. He is a member of the American Society of International Law and several other professional societies; he has several national, regional and international awards and recognition with 30 publications.

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