Tech Africa Magazine
As students, we are thought that innovation is the best way to build a successful startup. We must create something that does not yet exist. In reality, many successful businesses leverage innovation in a slightly different way. They take something that already exist and make a better one. In fact, if you are from some […]
Nervis Nzometia won 1st place and took home the 10 million Fcfa prize money with his project E-Waste 3D Printer. Originally designed and built as the project for his final year of engineering school, the e-Waste 3D printer wowed judges at the second edition of Cameroon’s Information and Communications Technology competition organized annually since 2019 by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.
With the fastest growing population, Africa is also the least connected continent and therefore a vast potential untapped market for Internet giants such as Facebook. Through the project’s website (www.2africacable.com), Facebook claims that this is the largest sub-sea project in the world. Further, the company estimates that the project will deliver 180Tbps which is more than the capacity of all sub-sea cables serving Africa today.
Over the last few months, we have been living a new reality imposed on us by the coronavirus. The new virus has literally shut-down almost every country on earth. Unlike recent epidemics, the richer countries have been just as paralyzed as poorer ones. This has left African countries to fend for themselves.
This challenge was met by African innovation at various levels. We’ve already covered the OXYNNET oxygen delivery system invented by Himmore Medical in …
In recent years, drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are increasingly being developed and used for commercial non-military purposes. It’s very common to see drones used as toys or used to take personal photos.
These emerging technologies are not just changing the way we entertain ourselves, they are also changing the way we live. On the African continent for example, they are transforming agricultural productivity.
Arthur Zang is about to explode on the world stage catapulted by his latest invention called Oxynnet TM. Arthur was just an engineering student when he learned that there were only 30 cardiologists for the entire population of his country Cameroon estimated at over 20 millions people. This problem was compounded by the fact that […]
Mali is the 3rd producer of gold on the continent and there is still room to grow. It’s against this backdrop that Ismael took on the challenge to go against the convention to build his own gold refinery in Mali and ensure gold is refined locally before it’s exported. In 10 years, he has built a company that employs 200 people and contributes to the local economy in many other ways. With a personal investment of about 2 billion Franc CFA…
Remember M-Pesa? It’s a mobile payment platform that captured the attention of the world when it was launched in 2007. It placed Africa as a leading region when it comes to mobile money. Since then, it has expanded to many countries in Africa, Arabia and Eastern Europe. However, Wikipedia page for mobile money does not have any mention of M-Pesa.
