Sickle Cell Disease Research
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
The Sickle Cell Disease Research Program in Tanzania is intended to show that genomic...
FABA (For Africans By Africans): MFarm
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
Tired of stories about middlemen offering Kenya’s five million small farmers meager prices for...
Emergency Auto-Transfusion Set
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)
In 1989, Brigadier General Otu Oviemo Ovadje, a medical doctor in the Nigerian Army,...
M-Pepea
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
M-Pepea is an alternative emergency loan facility accessed through mobile phones for Kenyans who...
mPedigree
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)mPedigree Network came into being to counter the scourge of counterfeit and substandard medicines...
MobiSure™
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa.)
Launched in 2012, MobiSure™ is a medical insurance platform through which poor families...
SudaMed
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)
In 2012, 25-year-old medical doctor Mazin Mohammed Khalil created Sudan’s first and only online...
Animal Feed Plant
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering, and design innovation in Africa)
Kenyan entrepreneur Geoffrey Kithinji Ruku is doing well for himself after venturing into unfamiliar...
Fonio Husker Machine
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
Senegalese mechanical engineer Sanoussi Diakité developed an electric and thermal-powered machine that husks five...
Safari Yetu
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
Safari Yetu, Kiswahili for “Our Journey,” is a web and mobile-based reservation and ticketing...