Promoting Africa
Increased pressures on the environment, more particularly, the natural resources, has necessitated efforts at research and development, and innovations with an objective of ensuring the sustainable utilization of non-renewable resources and responsible exploitation or use of renewable resources. A focus area, particularly in Africa, in an endeavor to foster sustainability, has been the harvesting or…
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Mara Group, a new tech company based in Rwanda, Africa, made history last month, by launching the first manufactured and assembled smartphones in Africa: Mara X & Mara Z. "While smartphones are assembled in other African nations (Egypt, Algeria, and South Africa all have assembly plants), according to Reuters, those companies all import the components." Mara is the first company…
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If Abidjan (Ivory Coast) is well known for being the "capital of joy", the Ivorian capital also wants to impose itself in contemporary art. Let's take a closer look at what the city offers. A biennale of contemporary art in Abidjan? artiste : Serge Niemandi - photo : C.Kamanan Contemporary African art lovers have already…
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Team Acrobot from West Africa Ghana took first place in the Senior Game Division at the Robofest World Championships, held Saturday May 18 at Lawrence Technological University, in Southfield, Michigan. Team Acrobot from the Ghana Robotics Academy Foundation Team Acro-Bot, nine girls from the Methodist Girls’ High School in the Eastern Region of Ghana, were…
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Johnson and Johnson’s Africa Innovation Challenge 2.0 is here! As a result, all African innovators are invited to submit their ideas. Entries opened on Thursday November 8. The Africa Innovation Challenge is designed for the continent’s innovators to showcase new ideas. This extraordinary opportunity is in its second edition (first edition launched in November 2016) .…
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Students at the University of Cape Town have developed a bio-brick that mixes sand, bacteria and human urine. It's the world’s first bio-brick grown from human urine. The formation of the bio-brick The bio-brick was developed by UCT master’s student in civil engineering, and was "created through a natural process called microbial carbonate precipitation. When urine is mixed…
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Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam, better known as Akon, has won the award of ‘Innovator Of The Year’ offered by the Black Enterprise group during its TechConNext event last week. TechConNext 2018 The TechConNext event brought together big names from the tech industry, like Intel group’s Corporate Strategic Procurement Director, Cory Hooks and Ebay’s Diversity…
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