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 […]
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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 […]
Most of us take our vision for granted. As a result, we take the ability to read, write, drive, and complete a multitude of other tasks for granted. However, sight is not so easy for everyone. Indeed, for many people, simply seeing is a struggle. Surgery? There are more than […]
Black inventor, and self-taught software engineer, Freddie Figgers, has released the newest phone from his telecommunications company, the Figgers F3. Changing the narrative of the 5G smartphone as we know it, the F3 comes equipped with record-breaking storage capacity of 1TB, meaning users will never run out of storage, and […]
Mansurah Abdulazeez is a molecular biologist at the Center for Biotechnology Research, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria. Her research aims to identify potent anti cancer agents in African plants. Last November, the government of Spain awarded her their Science by Women Fellowship. And in June, she won a Nigerian National Research […]
Tiera Guinn Fletcher is not your average lady. When asked what she desired to know as a kid, she replied wanting to know how to build planes. Today, she continues her impressive run, working with Boeing and serving as one of the designers and structural analysts building the Space Launch […]
More and more talent continues to emerge on the African continent as a 19 year old from the University of Ghana has developed a new video search engine that could rival Google and YouTube. The student has developed Mudclo.com (www.Mudclo.com), a website that has been described as almost matching Google’s […]
