Anti-malaria Drug
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)
Benin native Valentin Agon M.D. was the overall winner of the US$100,000 2016 Innovation...
Kamkwamba’s Windmills
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)
In 2002, at just 14 years old, William Kamkwamba built an electricity-generating windmill to...
Climate Observatory
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)
Scientist Jimmy Gasore is striving to make his native Rwanda a technopolis with the...
Battery-powered Toys
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)
Thirteen-year-old Somali native Guled Adan Abdi is producing toys and home appliances using scraps...
Clear Banana Juice System
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)
Tanzanian Oscar Kibazohi Ph.D., a senior lecturer at the College of Engineering and Technology...
mPedigree
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)mPedigree Network came into being to counter the scourge of counterfeit and substandard medicines...
iCow
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
iCow is a mobile phone agricultural information service developed by Kenyan native Su Kahumbu,...
Kiira EV
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
The Kiira EV is Uganda’s first electric, environment friendly car created by students at...
SudaMed
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)
In 2012, 25-year-old medical doctor Mazin Mohammed Khalil created Sudan’s first and only online...
Ghana Bamboo Bikes
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)
Teenage social entrepreneur Winifred Selby, along with colleagues Bernice Dapaah and Kwame Kyei, established...