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...ver maisPhyl 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, Bloomington Indiana in 1981 and later a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Paris VI, Orsay, France.ver menos