This is a list of African educators, scientists and scholars who were born or active on the African continent. North Africa Egypt Imhotep fl. (2667–2611 BC), Egyptian polymath Muhammad Abduh (1849–1905), Egyptian jurist, religious scholar and liberal reformer, regarded as the founder of Islamic Modernism. Abū Kāmil Shujā ibn Aslam (c. 850 – c. 930) Sameera Moussa (1917–1952), Egyptian nuclear scientist. Al-Jahiz (781–868/869), Afro-Arab scholar of East African descent. Arius (c. 250/256–336), Christian priest from Alexandria, Egypt. Al-Suyuti (c. 1445–1505), Egyptian writer, religious scholar, juristic expert and teacher. Ahmed Zewail (1946–2016), Egyptian-American scientist, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Mahmud Ahmad Hamdi al-Falaki (1815–1885), Egyptian cartographer, teacher, Minister of Public Instruction. Ismail Mustafa al-Falaki (1825–1901), Egyptian astronomer and mathematician. Carthage Saint Cyprian (c. 210–September 14, 258), bishop of Carthage and early Christian writer. Tunisia Aziza Baccouche (1976–), American physicist and filmmaker born and raised in Tunisia Hayet Omri (1981–), Tunisian politician and inventor Other Abbas Ibn Firnas (809–887) Nur ad-Din al-Betrugi (died c. 1204) Tertullian (ca. 160–ca. 220), Christian Berber author and writer of Christian Latin literature. Augustine of Hippo (354–430), Bishop of Hippo Regius and Romanized Berber philosopher and theologian. Algeria Muhammad al-Maghili (died c. 1505), Islamic scholar from Tlemcen in modern-day Algeria. Morocco Rachid Yazami (1953–), French Moroccan scientist best known for his research on lithium ion batteries. Sudanese Mo Ibrahim, (1946–), Sudanese-born British mobile communications entrepreneur and engineer Ali M. El-Agraa (1941–), economist Mohamed Osman Baloola (1981–), biomedical engineer who works on diabetes monitoring Mamoun Beheiry (1925–2002), economist, president of the African Development Bank and twice finance minister Nashwa Eassa (19??–), nano-particle physicist Ismail El Gizouli, acting president of the IPCC Mohamed H.A. Hassan (1947–), mathematician and physicist East Africa Ethiopian Rediet Abebe (1991–), Ethiopian computer scientist and was appointed at the Harvard Society of Fellows as the first female computer scientist. Berhane Asfawa (1954–), Ethiopian paleontologist. Giday WoldeGabriela (1955–), Ethiopian geologist. Gebisa Ejeta (1950–), Ethiopian plant breeder and geneticist who won the 2009 World Food Prize. Sossina M. Haile (1966–), professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. Mulugeta Bekele (1947–), Professor of Physics at Addis Ababa University. Aklilu Lemma (1934–1997), Ethiopian physician and was co-awarded the 1989 Right Livelihood Award. Dessalegn Rahmato (1940–), Ethiopia sociologist and was awarded the 1998 Prince Claus Award. Legesse Wolde-Yohannes, Ethiopian horticultural scientist and was co-awarded the 1989 Right Livelihood Award. Melaku Worede (1936–),