MEMBERS & VISITORS: IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WHAT WILL AFRICAN INVENTORS CONTRIBUTE? In this documentary created in 2019, the Frontline producers have assumed that only China and the United States will be significant players in this technology. You could rightly believe that Africa has been written off completely as a viable global […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS We Want to make our Own Every African inventor should take note that the opportunity for building industries and nations is before them. The winds of change are blowing in Africa’s favor. Tharaka Invention Academy is positioned to teach the important layer of skills and knowledge necessary for young apprentice inventors […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: What Will Young African Inventors Solve or Develop That’s Way Ahead Of Its Time? Tharaka Invention Academy is anxious to develop the talents of African geniuses. A well-trained cadre of inventors across the African continent will be key to solving three of the other HUGE problems here: Hunger, Health Care, and […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: DIVERSITY – A PATH TO AFRICAN SOLUTIONS There is indeed much that we can all gain from each other. Be it a conversation at a swank restaurant in Capetown, South Africa to a simple query to a Kampala, Ugandan business woman, to a long chat with an Thailand farmer on a […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: African Food Colonization Kenya tells Bill Gates “We will not be used as Guinea Pigs” Keep GMO’s in America Africa, GMOs and Western interests Inventor apprentices at Tharaka Invention Academy will most certainly be toiling at developing agricultural processes and equipment to raise the health and well-being of Kenyan citizens. However, […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS WE’RE DREAMING SMART! THIS IS OUR EXPECTATION Nairobi, Kenya: The year is 2047. One Nobel Prize winner, two alumni who currently serve as African state leaders, and numerous major CEOs as well as other luminaries, devotees, and alumni have gathered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Tharaka Invention Academy. This is […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS A SOLUTION LOOKING FOR AN AFRICAN PROBLEM Bringing smart functionality to your home doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive. If you have a smartphone and an empty outlet, you can use a smart plug to control, schedule, and automate nearly any electrical device. You don’t need programming skills or an […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS Young Inventors Solving African Problems There is a tremendous need for invention and innovation to solve challenges in Kenya, for example, but the public and private school systems largely do not yet formally recognize this need and have not accommodated systems to meet these needs. When recognized, priority is given to […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS How can I stay in the United States at this time? HOW MANY AFRICAN GENIUSES LIVING, STUDYING, AND WORKING ABROAD WILL RETURN TO SERVE THEIR MOTHERLAND? BRAIN DRAIN: This is a question which will remain to yet be answered. In fact, some Africans in the diaspora are returning and have rejected […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS CYBER INVENTION CURRICULUM The Tharaka Invention Academy Cyber Curriculum uses a framework that follows steps we’ll take in the invention process. It includes introductory courses to help students get started. It also introduces students to entrepreneurial concepts to get them thinking about what happens beyond the invention process. This curriculum framework […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS ANOTHER PROBLEM IN SEARCH OF AN INVENTOR: MOSQUITOES The seemingly intractable problem of mosquito bites is awaiting some ingenious African inventor. The final solution will likely involve several domains of knowledge and will come about when some keen insight has reached the light of day. Could you be the person who […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS Why Develop African Invention Education? Africa’s incredible wealth of natural resources is a good starting point. The fact that this material wealth has been historically and primarily extracted for the greater benefit of others outside of Africa is a good second point. Technological advances in artificial intelligence, human speech recognition, and […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT Tharaka Invention Academy has its eyes on the future. With one of the world’s youngest populations, Africa’s large and growing pool of unemployed labor is one of its biggest problems. Young people in Africa many of who are physically and mentally capable, cannot find the jobs they need to […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS MacArthur Foundation Announces 25 New ‘Genius’ Grant Winners African people have no short supply of exhibited ingenuity. That is why I’m working so diligently behind the scenes to foster that creativity and bend it to the betterment of Africa and mankind itself. To be clear, innovation and inventions are not […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS IS KENYA’S WEATHER NOW BEING MANIPULATED? On September 29, 2022 at 6:43 PM I observed and photographed an atmospheric aerosol injection, aka “chemtrail”, in the sky above Marimanti, Kenya. I pointed out this observation to others present with me at the time. We observed this phenomena over a period of twelve […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: WHEN AFRICAN INNOVATORS COMPETE IN ARCHITECTURAL SPACES What will happen when African creators invent new forms of making things or adopting existing forms like those in building construction like that originated in 1964 by Dante Bini . We can wait and hold our breath for unimaginable surprises.  After […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS Inventors and Professor Singer The technological progress of Africa and its diasporans was dramatically broken beginning with slavery and later through its colonization by European powers. With the arrival of the 21st century, a new era of an awakened Africa has dawned. In the graphic novel series we are developing entitled […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS THE SECRET TO AFRICAN PROSPERITY This analysis gives a purported reason why African countries remain amongst the poorest in the world but hidden within the same message is the path out of poverty to a new prosperity. Implied in that suggested path is the risk of danger in pursuing that strategy. […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS Innovation Station African progress moves forward and its young innovators, though in their early stages, will be a force to be reckoned with in the 21st century. Prof. Oku Singer, Mechanical/Solar Engineer INVENTION SCHOOL’S SIGNATURE SERIES The technological progress of Africa and its diasporans was dramatically broken beginning with slavery and […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS KENYAN INVENTORS WIN $1,000,000 PRIZE Congratulations to Eco-Bana, a Kenyan social venture started by four university students, that has just won the prestigious Hult Prize and a cash award of $ 1,000,000. The prize is awarded to entrepreneurs who strive to tackle pressing global issues through innovation. The firm makes hygienic […]

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