Before You Build The Future

| Africa, Blog, Invention School, News, Tharaka Invention Academy | 0 Comments
09 Jan

  MEMBERS & VISITORS: Before You Build the Future, Decide Who You Are | Rooted Innovation & Identity First Identity before innovation Before You Build the Future, Decide Who You Are! Tharaka Invention Academy is a distributed apprenticeship commons that equips self-directed learners to become accountable innovators, inventors, and problem-solvers rooted in real communities rather […]

Read more

Ancient Knowledge Applied In New Ways

| Africa, Blog, Boys' Stories, Heroes & Heroines, History Stories, Invention School, News | 0 Comments
26 Dec

Sometimes the most effective weapons are not technological marvels, but ancient knowledge applied in new ways. Summary: The Ghost of Normandy – Private First Class James Monroe Davis African Heritage and the Weight of History Private First Class James Monroe Davis served with the all African-American 366th Infantry Regiment during World War II, carrying the […]

Read more

Enjoy Boosting Your Enemy While Shooting Your Friends

| Africa, Blog, History Stories, Invention School, News, Tharaka Invention Academy, Vimeo | 0 Comments
19 Oct

Download “Enjoy Boosting Your Enemy While Shooting Your Friends” PowerPoint presentation. Enjoy this collection of “AFRICAN PROVERBS: African Cosmology & Epistemology” There is a Kenyan proverb that says, “Talking with one another is loving one another.” And today, by talking, we are showing love. Love for our students, for our communities, for Africa’s future. But […]

Read more

Weekly Innovation Brief, September 29, 2025

| Africa, Blog, Invention School, News, Series | 0 Comments
29 Sep

  MEMBERS & VISITORS: Grassroots Innovation: How the Global South is Redefining Problem-Solving Grassroots innovation and problem-solving in the Global South Download and read this week’s global Innovation Brief HERE The collection of reports I’ve gathered this week focus on a global shift toward inclusive and self-reliant innovation, particularly within the Global South, emphasizing solutions […]

Read more

Talking With One Another Is Loving One Another

| Africa, Blog, Heroes & Heroines, History Stories, Invention School, News | 0 Comments
09 Jun

  MEMBERS & VISITORS: Talking With One Another Is Loving One Another African Unity: Brothers and sisters, both on the African continent and in the diaspora, we are called to come together and engage in intergenerational dialogue to address our shared challenges and build a brighter future. In Kenya, there is a proverb that says, […]

Read more