MEMBERS & VISITORS INCREDIBLE INNOVATIONS FROM TANZANIA, KENYA, NIGERIA, AND SOUTH AFRICA From a scientist in Tanzania who created a water filter to combat water-borne diseases to apps in Kenya that give school children access to unlimited information, Africa is home to incredible technological innovations. To watch Invention School’s full library of movies visit Invention […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Black Inventors of the 20th and 21st Century A video presentation about famous black men and women inventors of the 20th and the 21st century. This video is just a short list of the MANY contributions of blacks throughout history. NOTE: Video narrative was obtained from Black-Inventors.com and MIT.edu. Please visit these […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS NIGERIAN INVENTOR HAS RESOURCEFULLY BUILT MORE STUFF Nigerian inventor who built jet car according to CNN report has built another flying car, Durojaiye Kehinde Obasanjo To watch Invention School’s full library of movies visit Invention School’s Home Page. INVENTION SCHOOL’S SIGNATURE SERIES The technological progress of Africa and its diasporans was […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS A DAY WITHOUT BLACK INVENTIONS Imagine a day where you couldn’t use anything invented by a black person. This description and title is a presumed riff on the movie title “A Day Without A Mexican”. Both of these considerations will bring the viewer to squarely contemplate the true contributions of inventors of […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INVENTORS MUSEUM Curator Francis Jeffers shares a number of different black inventors and shows some of the popular items many of us use every day. To watch Invention School’s full library of movies visit Invention School’s Home Page. INVENTION SCHOOL’S SIGNATURE SERIES The technological progress of Africa and its diasporans […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Black Female Inventors Here are a rundown of some of the famous and no so famous female inventors of African ancestry. Their contributions are significant though not widely known so it’s time to learn more. To watch Invention School’s full library of movies visit Invention School’s Home Page. INVENTION SCHOOL’S SIGNATURE SERIES […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Black People Invented Everything? The Computer, The Cell Phone & The Internet! To watch Invention School’s full library of movies visit Invention School’s Home Page. INVENTION SCHOOL’S SIGNATURE SERIES The technological progress of Africa and its diasporans was dramatically broken beginning with slavery and later through its colonization by European powers. With […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS NIGERIA’S YOUNGEST FANTASTICALLY CREATIVE INVENTOR Some of the greatest inventors in the world like Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, The Wright Brothers etc. have helped change the world one way or the other, and we think we have found our own Nigerian scientific savior. BattaBox presenter Odunayo meets and discusses with Nigeria’s youngest […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS AFRICA’S INVENTION NARRATIVE Kelvin Doe talks about the importance of African’s changing their own narrative about the continent and its ability to shape and mold its own future based upon the powerful competence of its people. Because if we don’t, no one will. Kelvin Doe is a self-taught Sierra Leonean engineer. A […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS AFRICAN AMERICAN INVENTIONS ADVANCED AMERICA Some of the Inventions African Americans created in America contributed greatly to the advancement of America’s growth and prosperity. To watch Invention School’s full library of movies visit Invention School’s Home Page. INVENTION SCHOOL’S SIGNATURE SERIES The technological progress of Africa and its diasporans was dramatically broken […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Top 5 African Inventions That Changed the World Africa seems a quiet continent when it comes to technology but the quietness of the continent should not be misinterpreted as Africa has brought about a lot of innovative solutions. The following are some of the African inventions in the field of technological advancement […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS 15 INVENTIONS CREATED BY AFRICAN AMERICANS There’s a lot of things we use on a day-to-day basis. But did you know that a majority of these things, like an ice cream scooper or a modern toilet, were invented by Black Americans? It’s these small things we take for granted which is why […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Ghana wins World Robofest Championship All-girls robotics team from Ghana for the senior division of the World Robofest Championship in the United States and they won the topmost position by beating teams from the United States, Mexico, Egypt, South Korea and dozens of others. Methodist Girls’ High School Named Team […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS First Film About Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman is considered one of the most heroic people in American history. Born Araminta Ross, or Minty, Tubman was an abolitionist and political activist, and fought in the American Civil War. But across America, Tubman is best known for rescuing more than 70 enslaved people through […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS African American Woman Was ‘Human Computer’ for NASA The United States space agency recently marked the loss of a very important person to America’s early space efforts. NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson died in early February of 2020 at the age of 101. She was an African American woman who is credited with […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS The Annihilation Agenda It’s certainly worth watching and thinking about Mike’s 47 minute video, “The Annihalation Agenda”. You’ll benefit most when separating his facts from his opinions. We all are in dire need of balance as well as cold hard facts in this era of fake news, divisive propaganda, and divisive actions […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Lesser Known People in Black History Professor Matthew Delmont decided a few years ago that he wanted to change how he teaches African American history. Delmont teaches at Dartmouth College in the state of New Hampshire. At first, Delmont turned to Twitter. There, he shared stories of the everyday lives of African […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Aladdin’s Lamp Aladdin is a child labourer who works for a guy that exchanges “new lamps for old”. This guy swaps a “new” lamp for 2-3 replacement old lamps, then brings back the old lamps for Aladdin to polish and make look like new. One day Aladdin sees a princess riding by […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Popeye Meets Ali Baba Although Ali Baba does not appear in this film, the band of Forty Thieves do, led by Abu Hassan . While on guard at a Coast Guard post, Popeye, Olive Oyl and J. Wellington Wimpy hear of Hassan’s attack on a town in Arabia and […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS A Better Place To Live Gabby makes good on his pledge to ‘be helpful’ by assisting the local fire department while they put out a fire. When the chief incapacitates himself by getting Gabby’s hat stuck over his head, Gabby takes charge with with disastrous consequences. To watch this full video and […]
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