Roy Allela, a 25-year old engineer and inventor from Kenya, has found the ultimate solution to bridging the communication barrier between deaf and hearing people. He has invented the Sign-IO gloves that can translate signed hand movements to audible speech so deaf people can “talk” even to those who don’t […]
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Bukola Somide, a Nigerian has created the first-ever Computer Science Interactive Doll called “Somi“. Somi is a 14-inch doll aimed at making playtime both educational and entertaining. The doll is equipped with 12 voice-overs that help teach Computer Science concepts in a fun way and also deter cyberbullying. The Somi […]
Jack Dorsey, the owner of Twitter, has said he will consider relocating to Africa for three months The tech giant said this as he rounded off his recent visit to the African continent where he met with entrepreneurs During his recent visit, he was in countries like Nigeria, Ghana, South […]
The much anticipated Accra Sky Train project, which is a fully automated, high efficiency and extremely cost effective public mass transit system that will use air propulsion technology to drive lightweight, high passenger volume vehicles, today, the 11th of November, 2019, received a big boost with the signing of a […]
Doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi have for the first time performed a successful heart surgical treatment without opening the heart. They successfully planted a pacemaker to help accelerate the heart-beat of the patient, a teenage girl who was suffering from a hole-in-heart. It was the […]
Born on April 24, 1827, Ghana’s Kwasi Boakye is the world’s first black engineer. The African-Dutch mining engineer was a prince of the Ashanti Empire and the eldest son of Kwaku Dua II, a king of the Ashanti kingdom. In 1837, along with his cousin Kwame Poku, the prince left […]
A Ghanaian teenager, who taught himself software programming, has designed a predictive analytics model using artificial intelligence to diagnose breast cancer. 19-year old Mustapha Diyanol Haqq from Kumasi, the capital of the country’s Ashanti Region, drew inspiration from “seeing how the big tech companies used innovation to solve some of […]
Rwanda’s President, Paul Kagame on Monday officially launched two new smartphones manufactured in Africa. The new phones are the first “Made in Africa” models produced by a Rwandan based company called Mara Group. Mara X and Mara Z are now available for purchase to consumers. They were showcased in May […]
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About 24 young senior high school girls from Ghana are placing their country on the global map with their innovation that transforms banana and plantain stems into paper bags. The girls, from the Methodist Girls High School in Ghana’s Eastern Region, came up with the idea as an alternative to […]
A senior Catholic sister and theologian has suggested sophisticated robots could be used as priests. Franciscan Sister Ilia Delio who has two PhDs and a chair in theology at Villanova University, said the priesthood should be ‘reimagined’ with robots working alongside, or instead of, human religious figures. Delio, who gives talks […]
