Phyl Amadi was born in Santa Isabel, Equatorial Guinea, a small island off the coast of West Africa. He graduated from the University of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria before compl...view morePhyl Amadi was born in Santa Isabel, Equatorial Guinea, a small island off the coast of West Africa. He graduated from the University of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria before completing graduate studies at Indiana University in 1981, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Paris VI, Orsay, France.view less