Grace Williams Research Paper

Grace Alele Williams was born December sixteenth in the year nine-teen thirty-two. She grew up in a town named Warri, Delta State in the country of Nigeria. She has no known siblings and her parents are unheard of as well. She was married to the late Professor Babatunde Williams with whom she had five beautiful children that blessed her with nine beautiful grandchildren later on in life.

Williams attended government school in her home town of Warri before moving on to attend Queens college, Lagos and the University College of Ibadan which is now formally known as the University of Ibadan. After the completion of her undergraduates program, Williams became a master in mathematics at Queen's school in Ede Osun state during the years of nineteen fifty-four to nineteen fifty-seven. In nineteen sixty-three at the University of Chicago, she earned her Ph.D in mathematics education with an essay on "Dynamics of Education in the Birth of a New Nation: Case study of Nigeria".

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Growing up as a young women Williams felt a great accomplishment in educating her fellow nigerian people, but most specifically her nigerian women seeing as education for women in her time period wasn’t greatly valued. That is one of the reasons she to great pride in joining organizations such as ‘Africa of the Third World Organization for Women in Science’ which is a group that's main objective is “strengthening their [women's] role in the development process and promoting their representation in scientific and technological leadership”. ‘The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World’ reportedly provides research training, career development and networking opportunities for women scientists throughout the developing world at different stages in their