MEMBERS & VISITORS FUTURE BY DESIGN What will be Africa’s Future By Design? The young African inventors I will be mentoring in Marimanti, Kenya will need to be familiar with the work and aspirations of other inventors before them. After all, the future well-being of the African continent is in their hands and they […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS The Cultural Creatives The world out there is changing at an unprecedented rate. These changes are not only environmental, economic, social and political but mounting evidence point to a rise of a new planetary consciousness and new world order known as transmodernism. Transmodernism is evident in all aspects of people’s lives, […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS AFRICA’S BRAIN DRAIN How can Africans find solutions to Africa’s problems? Conservation biologist Kevin Njabo tells his personal story of how he nearly became part of the group of African scientists who seek an education abroad and never return — and why he’s now building a permanent base on the continent […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS: POISON OUR STORIES What is your story? When you grow up and talk to your grandchildren what’s the story that you want to tell? Will your story be more exciting than your resume? Will you say you woke up went to work, completed projects, met deadlines and targets, got promoted every […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS African Inventors African Inventors Learn about 11 African inventors whose incredible inventions changed the world. Most people are only familiar with well-known inventions such as cars, light bulbs, and smartphones. But there are breakthrough contributions from the African continent across fields such as medicine, energy, e-commerce, and many more industries. I […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS African Innovation Mentors Fortunately for Africa, there is no shortage of innovation talent. This awakening Giant will see earth shaking changes through the solutions which will be brought to bear on Africa’s problems. For example, read “Nurturing wealth of innovations among the youth“. Because of my past professional experiences in education […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Young Inventors Can Harness Local Resources A primary focus of Invention School is to show apprentice inventors that there is a wealth of local resources to which large amounts of value can be added. In this light, the African leaders who we choose can make vast differences for the better OR […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Sarafina! As tensions of apartheid spread across South Africa, many students revolts to massive stone throw, a demonstration that comes in a wake of the introduction of Afrikaans language as a means of teaching. This sparks riots among school age young people who have resolved to do what it takes for […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS African American Builds Ghana Movie Studio Ghana can likely claim the honor of having the most visionary and progressive set of national leaders in Africa. It is evident in so many of the bold projects undertaken by diverse global interests within the African diaspora. A Los Angeles-born entrepreneur enstooled as Mpuntuhene […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Obruni, Mzungu, Whatever… When my wife and I first landed in Ghana in 1971, as African Americans we were completely baffled as to why Ghanaians referred to both of us as Obruni, the term used for white people. Since I was lighter skinned than my wife maybe that was a reasonable […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step. TODAY’S YOUTH WILL NOT ALLOW AFRICA TO BE RECOLONIZED A special form of light made using an ancient Namibian gemstone could be the key to new light-based quantum computers, which could solve long-held scientific mysteries, according to new research led by […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN Yes, Africa has had tragic histories which, at times, have been hard to comprehend in their scope. A refugee’s escape, a prisoner’s promise, and a daughter’s painful secret converge in this inspiring real life story of hope. As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Why Black Americans Are Leaving The U.S. “I Don’t Think I’m Going To Get That Here” A small but growing percentage of African descendants in America and elsewhere are taking a clear-eyed look at their domestic situation in 2022 just as some European Jews did in the mid 1930s. Consider the […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS This World Is All About Branding and Marketing Africa needs superheroes like Shaka Zulu, Akon says. It is time to rebrand Africa. It is time for the African content makers to show the beautiful side of Africa. Akon who is on a mission to promote Africa was speaking in Rwanda. It […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS What If Africa Was Just ONE Country? What If Africa Was Just ONE Country? Make no mistake, drawing up broad generalizations about the African continent is likely to be met with strong reactions, often deemed willfully ignorant. For as long as time has allowed, Africa has struggled with an image problem, […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS INVENTION SCHOOL: End Game INVENTION SCHOOL: End Game Economies grow not only by adding more capital and labor. A vital ingredient Invention School will contribute to African development is skill in creating and commercializing innovation, which makes investment and workers more productive. Productivity, which is defined as the value of goods […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS INNOVATION KNOWS NO BOUNDS Creativity can apply to solving social problems, making potable water, developing sustainable energy systems, healing sickness, developing affordable housing, or creating a recipe for a dazzling new soft drink… Coca Cola has become a global soft drink behemoth after introducing its highly sought after beverages. One of […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS CORRUPTION: Crime Against Humanity SaharaTV interviews Director of Kenya School of Law and the former Director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission, Prof. Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba. Across the African continent, claims Prof. Lumumba, corruption has killed more people than all of Africa’s civil wars. Corruption should rightfully be labeled as a […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS WILL CAPITALISTS EAT INVENTORS? WILL CAPITALISTS EAT INVENTORS FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCH, AND DINNER? I have personally experienced how evil and wicked even ordinarily good people can become when they are presented with the opportunity to make a lot of money. I invented a patented device, under contract, for de-boning chicken wings. […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS AMERICAN IMPERIALISM OF AFRICANS AT ITS FINEST Another cautionary tale for modern Africa… “I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues,” Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, a leader of the American force in Haiti, wrote in 1935, describing himself as a “racketeer […]
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