espite political and social bottlenecks in different parts of the continent, Africa’s newest generation are breaking barriers to write their names on the sands of time not only in their country but also on the world’s timeline.Among these exceptional people…
By Henry Nzekwe | May 27, 2019 To whom it may concern; nine is just fine and ten is the new when. Okay, that’s not even a thing – but maybe we could all pretend it sounds cool given that…
5 December 2016 Stair-climbing wheelchairs and electric tuk-tuks are among local engineers’ answers to the many challenges facing their communities. Laurence Ivil reports. Alex Makalliwa on the site of his proposed workshop in Kisumu Kenya, where he hopes to convert tuk-tuks to…
Article information A 13-year-old boy’s passion for making electronic toys in Somalia has won him local fame and a free education. Guled Adan Abdi, from the northern town of Buhodle, taught himself how to make plastic toys from bits of…
Africa has the world’s oldest record of human technological achievement: the oldest stone tools in the world have been found in eastern Africa, and later evidence for tool production by our hominin ancestors has been found across Sub-Saharan Africa. The…
