MEMBERS & VISITORS WHY DEVELOPING AFRICAN INVENTION TALENT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT If you think that Africa will continue to be impoverished and live on handouts from the developed wealthier nations as we continue to move into the 21st century, you’re dead wrong… Africa will no longer be the forgotten continent but rather at the […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Nigerian Teen: Robot Designer Inventor Isah Auwal Barde, aged 17, created the robot Mutum Mutumi from cardboard and other miscellaneous materials he could find. It took Barde two years to build the robot. He had no funding, so all the parts were found locally or provided by others. He also said […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS I HAD A DREAM Many of us know the story of Noah and the Ark. Noah served as an agent of God whose role was to become a servant poised to help launch a new beginning for those under his care. I had a dream in which I was able to […]
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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 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 Wake Up Young Africans and Transform The Continent Twende Hub is a social innovation center, with the believe of collaborating with students and community members in Tanzania to identify their challenges and design & create their own solutions to their problems will contribute to a world with improved access to technologies […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS BUILDING INVENTION SCHOOL GRAPHIC NOVELS BUILDING INVENTION SCHOOL GRAPHIC NOVELS Two of my areas of expertise are in computer graphics and 3D animation. With this background I’m able to accurately visualize all of the characters and scenes taking place within my stories. Kimathi and Kate are the Founders of Africa […]
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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 YOUNG APPRENTICE INVENTORS WILL TACKLE THESE PROBLEMS When young minds are given a heads up about some of the challenges that interest them besetting their homeland , their solutions may be percolating for 10 years or more, but you can believe that they will come up with solutions. Aside from writing […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS 7 QUESTIONS THAT MUST BE ASKED ABOUT THE SERIES 7 QUESTIONS THAT MUST BE ASKED ABOUT THE GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES 1. What is the world that the characters inhabit? I use images of people that look a little bit different, like a girl that has a bald head. She shaved her […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS PREPARING A GENERATION OF AFRICAN INVENTORS PREPARING A GENERATION OF AFRICAN INVENTORS I am working hard to implement a real world Invention School for African youth. Given the world’s current state of affairs, the stage is now set for Africans to deeply explore solutions to African problems without being hampered by […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS WORST OF TIMES, BEST OF TIMES WORST OF TIMES, BEST OF TIMES I’m blessed to be alive, healthy, and living each day on the African continent. We are all witnessing the fall of western civilization and along with it all of the horrendous things which it perpetrated to enhance its own […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS How Can We Help? How Can We Help? Invention School, located in Eastern Kenya, is dedicated to nurturing the tech leaders of tomorrow. How will it do that? Well, enjoy this video and you can begin to learn how Invention School will develop the future generations of Africans who will be […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Wake Up Young Africans and Transform The Continent Dr. Thomas Mensah is a Ghanaian-American chemical engineer and inventor, who contributed to the development of fiber optics and nanotechnology. He has 14 patents and was inducted into the US National Academy of Inventors in 2015. Read Dr. Mensah’s book “The Right Stuff […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Young People Like This Belong In Invention School A Kenyan boy with big brilliant brain builds a homemade excavator prototype from sticks and plastic pieces. He’s already developing a natural sense of four bar linkages, mechanical advantage, material properties, force leverage, force vectors, etc. Yes, he’d make a wonderful apprentice inventor […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Oku’s Washing Machine SOLVING PROBLEMS… Families across the African continent spend countless hours squatting or stooping over while hand washing the family’s clothes. The toll on the back and hands is severe. The task of hand washing the equivalent of a typical single load of an electric washing machine can take up […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS MAASAI BOY’S INVENTION MADE PEACE WITH LIONS In the Maasai community where Richard Turere lives with his family, cattle are all-important. But lion attacks were growing more frequent. In this short, inspiring talk, the young inventor shares the solar-powered solution he designed to safely scare the lions away. Young inventor Richard Turere […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS MILLIONAIRE INVENTOR: Madam C.J. Walker Madam C.J. Walker was suffering from poverty and hair loss when she decided to concoct a hair regrowth lotion to heal her damaged scalp. Fast forward a handful of years and millions of dollars later, Walker was leading one of the most successful, and philanthropic, cosmetic companies […]
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