Technology

Dr. Askwar Hilonga, a nanotechnology specialist at the Nelson Mandela Institute for Science and Technology in Arusha, won on June 1, 2015, the African Innovation Prize awarded by the Royal British Academy of Engineering . This 38-year-old engineer invented a water filter capable of sorting 99.999% of micro-organisms and chemicals. It took him 4 years…

For more than three years, this young Franco-Malian entrepreneur from Villiers-le-Bel, in the Paris region, decided in spite of a comfortable professional situation in France to return to Bamako to carry out his professional project: the creation of a Store Apple Store in Bamako. Thanks to its excellent location, the Apple Store is adjacent to…

Nigerian scientist Samuel Achilefu has been awarded the Louis 2014 prize for his glasses that identify and remove cancer cells. Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, his team developed this technology to be able to treat people with cancer effectively. His research on this device began in 2012, thanks to the financing of $ 2.8…

Google Senegal opens a CreativeLab for Youtubeurs Google Senegal in partnership with the training school Sup IMAX has opened a new space specially dedicated to Senegalese youtubers. Behind this initiative is Tidiane Deme of the Google Africa office. The objective of the project according to the Director of the school is to allow the Youtubers…