Mimosa Solar Panel
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
Nigerian-born Justus A. Nwaoga discovered a way to manufacture solar energy using the organic...
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...
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...
E-Lab
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
E-Lab, a three-month-old startup founded by 19-year-old Kenyan Alex Mativo, who is also its...
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...
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,...
Robot Traffic Cops
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
Engineers at the Higher Institute of Applied Techniques in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo,...
Famissima
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
IT specialist Ahlem Bouchahda ben-Tekaya developed a Web and mobile application that serves as...
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...
Horticultural Tele-Irrigation System
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa.)
Invented in Niger by computer scientist and social entrepreneur Maman Abdou Kané, the Horticultural...
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