Deborah Enilo Ajakaiye was just 40 years old when she became the first female Black Professor of Physics, not just in Nigeria, but the whole of the African continent in 1980. She retired from academics 11 years later at 51.

Deborah Enilo Ajakaiye was just 40 years old when she became the first female Black Professor of Physics, not just in Nigeria, but the whole of the African continent in 1980. She retired from academics 11 years later at 51.