MEMBERS & VISITORS: Global South Innovation: Frugal Solutions, Policy Shifts, and Community Power Read & Download the September 13, 2025 Global Innovation Brief HERE Global South innovation and problem-solving Speaker 1: Aight fam, welcome to the deep dive. We gon’ talk on somethin’ real wild today — how folks all over, ‘specially in the […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: Video Title Africa’s grassroots innovation and problem-solving Read or Download the full report HERE Hello, my friends. My name is Professor Singer. I’m a retired engineering professor, a world traveler, and now I live here in Marimanti, in East Africa. You may hear the roosters in the background as I sit […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: The Global South’s Moment: Innovation, Sovereignty, and Breaking Free from Economic Dependence Global South innovation and sovereignty In this thought-provoking discussion, the speaker challenges the pervasive pessimism and defeatism often felt by intelligent, moral individuals, particularly in the Global South, who feel overwhelmed by the dominance of powerful nations like the […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: Saving The Sahel States ~ Chapter 3 “Gather around, my young inventors for the tale I am about to share is not merely a story of our Invention School, but a reflection of the very essence of our continent, our struggles, our hopes, our dreams.” “Our people wanted democracy, but democracy […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: Why we should build products in Africa? Rick Sheridan, the CEO of sunny irrigation explains the benefits of building products in Africa. We have published other informative posts on Invention School’s website which may interest you. To view our entire catalog of over 800 posts go to inventionschool.tech/category/blog/ or use our […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: What Is Kenya’s GEARBOX? This video presents an overview of Gearbox and Gearbox Europlacer as a hardware incubator and enabler. Our Innovation development at Tharaka Invention Academy can certainly use the services of Gearbox when we develop prototypes of our inventions. We have published other informative posts on Invention School’s website […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: Trying Harder to Support and Enrich My Community I’ve been working and studying like crazy to implement a human-powered washing machine for use by families and neighbor in my own African community and beyond and have developed several prototypes. One of them will soon reach that sweet spot of addressing most […]

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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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