VIDEO: Ghanaian Professor Nii Quaynor Featured On CNN As ‘Africa’s Father Of The Internet’

It is not all the time you get your countryman being a pioneer of great inventions like the INTERNET. We are therefore excited to introduce Professor Nii Quaynor to you, if you do not already know him.

He is one of the great minds who helped in bringing internet to Africa—-by establishing some of the continents first online connections.

According to CCN;

If you’re reading this somewhere in Africa, then perhaps you should thank Nii Quaynor.

The Ghanaian professor is known as “Africa’s father of the internet,” a web pioneer who helped establish some of the continent’s first online connections.

For some 20 years now, soft-spoken Quaynor has been at the forefront of web development across Africa. He is the first African to be elected to the board of ICANN, the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers. He’s also played an important part in launching the African Network Operators Group and AfriNIC, the African internet numbers registry.

As a result, Quaynor was recently inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame, lauded as an instrumental figure “in the early design and development of the internet.” He is today chairman of Ghana’s information technology agency and a professor at the country’s Cape Coast University

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