Every continent has produced Nobel (or equivalents) prize (in the sciences both physical,biological & economic) winners except Africa (or did I miss any?)
*___ America: too many to enumerate but in every field including Sanger,Friedman,Feynman,Edison (one my favorites),etc
**____ Asia: So many including Bose,Abdus Salam,Raman,Sen,etc
*** _____ Australia: For such a small country (population smaller than Kenya): Bragg,Florey,Burnett,etc
**** Europe: Where do I start? There is Tesla,Einstein,Curie,etc

****_______**** Are there any Africans in this list?

Greedy when others are fearful,Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase WB

Well,it might be so BUT I want more recent proof. Claiming the Egyptian pyramids is too old... I look at (more) current stuff or documented stuff. E.g. every continent builds designs cars from scratch expect Africa (well,African firms may assemble or build under license)
*___ America: Hummer,GM,Chevy,Ford
** ____ Asia: Toyota,Nissan,Tata
*** _____ Australia: Not sure!!! but they have less than 30mn people.
**** _____Europe: Rover,Mercedes,Porsche

***** ____ Africa? We have 1 billion people (or close). Yet mostly assemble cars. As is most cars in Kenya are not even assembled here. And I am not even talking of aircraft.

Greedy when others are fearful,Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase WB

i will beg to differ. some of the most brilliant minds in science are africans. there are many respected scientists in the hallowed (sp) halls of MIT,Cambridge,Oxford etc. it all depends on opportunity and funding. it is rare that you will find these scientists as grant holders in projects in which they work,yet in most instances they participate equally in (perhaps even much more - to prove their worth) interms of intellectual outputs of their projects,yet when there is a breakthrough,its only the project leader/grant holder who bags all the credit. the former (grant holder) is usually a politically adept (politics of science) senior scientist with lots of experience in raising funds and poaching the best talent who contributes very little if anything of the actual intellectual input. case in point: one of the developers of wireless mobile technology was an african as was one of the developers of the harrier jump jet for the US navy ...

Better to be at the cause of your experience rather than at the end of it. In all situations,be cause ...

Lakini... do we have any scientists here in Kenya/Africa? BTW,apparently India & China faces the same problem. Many of them became US citizens because it is easier to be a researcher in USA than India/China.
*** Lakini the Indians & Chinese are doing something about it. They are building research institutions to keep the brains at home.

Greedy when others are fearful,Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase WB

We cant become scientists because we do not invest in reaseach. We are only good in pilating and copying what others have inveted.