Tharaka Invention Academy: Inventor Transformation I want to explain to you how Tharaka Invention Academy works. I am Professor Singer, its director. We’re going to dive into something pretty fascinating: how the Tharaka Invention Academy, or TIA for short, literally transforms everyday people into highly capable, independent problem-solvers. Seriously, if you’ve ever wondered how someone […]

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Ibrahim Traore Burkina Faso beauty pageant reforms Ibrahim Traore has just sparked a very interesting debate about how Africa celebrates its young women, and I want to know what you think. A few months ago, Burkina Faso suspended beauty pageants across the country, and now, under Traore’s leadership, the country has introduced a very different […]

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A car on the streets of Barbados is running on fuel made from seaweed, rum wastewater and sheep manure. And the gas in its tank is methane, the same molecule as natural gas. In this video, we break down the Barbadian invention that turns sargassum, the brown seaweed invading Caribbean beaches every year, into bio-CNG. […]

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UNLEASH THE SCHOOLS! Will Africa’s future be built on solutions we buy from others—or solutions we create ourselves? Discover how our schools, together with Tharaka Invention Academy , work to help Africans become innovators and inventors, not just consumers of the creative gifts of others. 🎥 Watch this thought-provoking video: Professor Singer Tharaka Invention Academy […]

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Bedrocks of civilization BEDROCKS OF CIVILIZATION, narration by Prof. Judson Singer, director of Tharaka Invention Academy. When we hear people talk about civilizations rising and falling, we often think about great empires, powerful armies, enormous cities, or impressive monuments. We may think that a civilization is successful because it has become wealthy or because it […]

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      Tharaka Invention Academy • Problem Pals™ Academy Relatability Mapper Helping TIA apprentices make inventions, scientific ideas, and technical concepts easier to understand through familiar African experiences, environments, materials, livelihoods, and community life. Welcome Welcome to Problem Pals™: Academy Relatability Mapper, and welcome as a new Tharaka Invention Academy apprentice. This GPT […]

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For years, American PR firm v-Fluence has worked with a network of players in the agrochemical industry to ensure that the use of harmful chemicals in various countries, including Kenya continues. Despite mounting evidence of the harm these chemicals cause, v-Fluence and its partners have downplayed their risks, and discredited environmentalists pushing for an end […]

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For years, American PR firm v-Fluence has worked with a network of players in the agrochemical industry to ensure that the use of harmful chemicals in various countries, including Kenya continues. Despite mounting evidence of the harm these chemicals cause, v-Fluence and its partners have downplayed their risks, and discredited environmentalists pushing for an end […]

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Welcome to Tharaka Invention Academy đź‘‹ You’re now using Problem Pals™: AI Tool Matchmaker, one of Tharaka Invention Academy’s Problem Pals™. The Academy describes Problem Pals as lightweight AI companions designed to help learners think, create, test concepts, and solve problems without replacing human mentors or the learner’s own thinking. _Problem_Pals_Index The Matchmaker has a […]

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Let me guide you on how Tharaka Invention Academy Helps Turn Problems Into Inventions. Hello, my name is Prof. Singer and I want to show you, very simply, how Tharaka Invention Academy is designed to work. This worked example follows a solar-cooking challenge through problem definition, prior knowledge, AI-assisted exploration, risk discovery, concept revision, and […]

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Does this history have any bearing upon modern African innovation thriving or withering? Very much so—but not in the simplistic sense that Africa is still suffering from some ancient “geographic disadvantage.” The stronger connection is that the mechanisms described in the video—surplus, specialization, connectivity, knowledge diffusion, competition, and accumulation of technological capability—still govern whether innovation […]

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Africa either doesn’t understand this OR those with the power to lead change are prioritizing number 1. Given the lessons and consequences, who in the world is going to begin stepping into Africa and running the risk of building it next great competitor? China benefited partly from entering the industrialization […]

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Innovate Now AI problem-solving book A Practical Resource for Learning to Innovate and Solve Problems To All of my Supportive Subscribers, After a lifetime of teaching, engineering, innovation and invention, I have made my book Innovate Now: Mastering AI for Creative Problem Solving freely available because I want more people—especially young people—to develop the practical […]

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I’m pleased to share a free sample edition of my book, Innovate Now: Mastering AI for Creative Problem Solving. The book explores how human creativity, practical problem-solving, and artificial intelligence can work together to help Africa develop useful ideas and turn them into real-world solutions. You can read or download the free sample here: https://tharaka.inventionschool.tech/Innovate-Now.pdf […]

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