context: Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria on August 23, 1954. [1] He left school in 1967 because of the Nigerian Biafran war. By the time he was fourteen, he was trapped in the Biafran army. After the war he graduated from the same school as an undergraduate and went to the United States to study at a university under scholarship. In fact, Emeagwali studied in England after leaving Africa. He is going to the United States later. He received a mathematics degree from the University of Oregon in 1977. He received a master's degree in environmental engineering from George Washington University in 1981, and another master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1986. He also received a degree in marine, coastal and marine engineering from George Washingt University that year. He was also working as an engineer in the Land Office in Wyoming reclamation during this period.
question: Where was Philip Emeagwali?
answers.text: Akure, Nigeria