MEMBERS & VISITORS: Why These Breakthroughs Could Redefine Your Daily Life Global innovation brief September 2025 The provided Weekly Brief report I just compiled for you highlights various innovative approaches to problem-solving emerging from the Global South, particularly in Africa and Latin America. These initiatives demonstrate a shift towards self-reliance and local empowerment, with […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: Africa is building something extraordinary Africa Continental Internet Exchange Hello, dear friends. This is Professor Singer once again, bringing you a story from Marimanti, Kenya that is not often told, but one that quietly powers the future of every innovator, inventor, and problem-solver across Africa. Today, I want to tell you […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: The AI Copyright War: Legal Battles That Will Define the Future of Innovation AI copyright legal battle Hello to all of my innovation family. This is Professor Singer again, Director of this academy bringing your this important news. At Tharaka Invention Academy we work very hard to let you know about […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: Tharaka Invention Academy: Building Africa’s Path to Tech Sovereignty African tech sovereignty and innovation strategy Geopolitics is not a distant chessboard that innovators can afford to ignore; it is the invisible hand shaping which ideas receive funding, which components move unimpeded across borders, and which standards gain global legitimacy. The *Financial Times* […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: Marrying AI: A Humorous Look at the Future of Human-AI Collaboration marrying AI metaphor Where do your best ideas come from? When you’re staring at a screen—or maybe when you’re walking by the river, lying under a tree, or sitting quietly with your thoughts? Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison—most […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: Quantum Africa: From Mineral Leverage to Co-Creating the Quantum Future Quantum Africa Picture an African engineering student in Mombasa pulling results from a cloud-based quantum processor, then walking across campus to a lab where colleagues are refining battery-grade cobalt sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo. That scene isn’t science fiction—it’s […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: Master AI and Innovation: A Student’s Guide to Inventing the Future AI-powered invention education for university students The world is changing fast. Artificial Intelligence is no longer the future—it’s the present. And it’s rewriting the rules of success, employment, and innovation. If you’re a university student studying engineering, agriculture, business, health […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: An African Mzungu Comes Home African American returns to rural Africa A retired African American man returns to a rural Kenyan village seeking peace and purpose. What begins as a quiet visit evolves into a profound journey of identity, belonging, and mutual transformation in a community far more advanced and nuanced […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: How Kenyan Farmers Are Bypassing Middlemen and Exporting Directly Green gram revolution Kenya The afternoon sun lit up the Mbeere plains, casting golden light across the tidy rows of green gram plants. At the edge of the field stood Wanjiru Mwathi, eyes sharp, voice clear. In her hand, she held a […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: She Hacked Her Ancestral Trauma—Now She’s Leading Africa’s Creative Future Ancestral memory and innovation in African youth Tharaka Invention Academy will be offering courses which provide the valuable mindset, knowledge, and skills to become proficient innovators, inventors, and problem-solvers so that you remain highly competitive in a fast-changing world that is […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: The World Is Shifting—And So Must You: A Lecture for Builders of the Next Civilization The world is shifting and so must you “My dear students, we are living in a time when the systems we were taught to trust—finance, governance, even nature’s balance—are unraveling before our eyes. But this is […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: From National Wealth to Personal Innovation: The Path to Prosperity From National Wealth to Personal Innovation What if I told you there’s a proven process—not just for making countries wealthy—but for helping you thrive in today’s innovation economy? That’s right! The same steps that helped nations like South Korea and Singapore […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: Kiss my Ideass Mind Mapping for Innovation and Problem Solving Mind Mapping in Innovation, Invention, and Problem Solving Introduction In an age where innovation is both a necessity and a competitive advantage, tools that foster creativity, clarity, and collaboration are in high demand. Among these, mind mapping stands out as a […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS: Case Study: I invented a popular kitchen gadget Trump tariffs impact on small business In the New York Times guest essay titled “I Invented a Popular Kitchen Gadget. Trump’s Tariffs Will Kill My Business” , Yair Reiner—entrepreneur and founder of Gowanus Kitchen Lab—shares the story behind his invention of […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: Why Maxwell Chikumbutso’s Invention Was Denied a U.S. Patent and What It Means for African Innovation Maxwell Chikumbutso patent denial This is a quote from Luke 4:24 : “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.” The phrase has since become a common proverb, used to […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: Maxwell Chikumbutso’s Self-Powered Car: Innovation or Suppression? Maxwell Chikumbutso self-powered car Yet here we are today and are still witnessing that same brutality on full display. A Zimbabwean inventor, Maxwell Chikumbutso, claims to have developed a self-powered car that runs without fuel or charging, a breakthrough that could disrupt trillion-dollar industries. […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: Could a Secondary School Dropout from Zimbabwe Be the Greatest Inventor of the 21st Century? Maxwell Chikumbutso self-charging electric car The world said it was impossible. Scientists dismissed him. Corporations ignored him. Assassins even tried to silence him. But Maxwell Chikumbutso, a self-taught inventor from Zimbabwe, refused to back down. Now, […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: 2025: Surviving the Global Power Shake-Up Through Innovation Inspiration Through Innovation A multi-polar world is emerging. Tharaka Invention Academy extensively uses AI chatbots, summaries, briefing docs, study guides, illustrative stories, lectures, lesson exercises, and podcasts of experts to drive learning outcomes of its students. This sample lesson from our online […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: Clanslator and the AI Apprentice AI-powered Clanslator for human-animal communication Tharaka Invention Academy extensively uses illustrative stories, lectures, lesson exercises, and podcasts of experts to drive learning outcomes of its students. Stories have a unique way of capturing our imagination, grounding abstract concepts in relatable experiences, and sustaining our attention. […]
Read moreMEMBERS & VISITORS: How Can Africans Become More Prosperous? Africa’s Future Prosperity through Science and Technology Summary of the Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson In this engaging discussion, the interviewer asks Neil deGrasse Tyson whether he believes Africans can become more prosperous in the 21st century. Tyson responds with a strong affirmation, emphasizing that […]
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