Sierra Leonean student who built a device to generate clean power wins $100,000 Global Student Prize
A Sierra Leonean student identified as Jeremiah Thoronka has emerged as winner of a $100,000 global student prize after beating 3,500 nominees from 94 countries across the world. According to reports, Jeremiah was shortlisted from the total of 3,500 nominees to a final list of 10 where he went on to win the grand prize. […]
Rwanda goes electric with locally made motorbikes
One of the African countries making strides in terms of development is Rwanda. According to recent reports, a local startup identified as Ampersand is rolling out an initiative to reduce emission in the country through the production of electronic motorbikes to replace the current ones running on fuel at expensive maintenance rates. The Rwandan government […]
16-Year-Old Nigerian emerges one of the global winners of $1billion rise incentive
Tomisin Ogunnubi, a Nigerian kid who learnt coding at the age of 12 has emerged as one of the winners of the $1 billion reward in a global tech competition. Recall that, the young tech genius, now 16 years earlier created a mobile application called “My Locator” at the age of 14, purported to protect […]
Meet Alassana Kassama, the young man lighting Gambian communities and beyond
The community watch lens established to identify and motivate young Africans making positive impacts in their communities has found Alassana Kassama, a young Gambian who is changing the stories of people in the Gambia with future plans to extend his good deeds to other African countries. Growing up in Banjul, Kassama saw the challenges of […]
Ethiopia creates homemade social media platform to rival Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp
The Ethiopian government has announced that homemade social media platforms are being created to rival global companies such as Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Twitter, etc. The decision follows accusations that these platforms have acted against national interest through the deletion of posts and pages that are “disseminating the true reality about Ethiopia” and those “preaching national […]
Nigerian Woman Builds Software for Teaching African Languages
In what many refer to as an excellent initiative to sustain African languages in the modern era, a young Nigerian-American woman known as Omolabake Adenle has developed a software which teaches about five local African languages with expectations to expand the scope in the near future. According to reports, the woman who doubles as an […]
For Afrocentric content creators and media houses, ‘Post Limitations’ is a major challenge
African content creators, especially those who produce reports on politics, development and Afrocentric content in general have over the years shared a common problem. That is post limitation which prevents their contents from reaching their audience. At worst, not even 50% of their organic followers get the chance to view or engage with these contents. […]
Tanzania to receive the country’s first 42 Korean electric trains by November
It has been announced that the Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) would get its first 42 electric locomotives by November of this year. In this capacity, the company will formally begin operating the stretch of the Standard Gauge Railway between Dar es Salaam and Morogoro (SGR). Dr. Leonard Chamuriho, the Minister for Works and Transport, was […]
Togo launches Africa’s biggest solar power plant
Togo inaugurated on Tuesday Africa’s largest solar power facility in West Africa, located about 250 kilometers north of the country’s capital, Lomé. This 50-megawatt plant, located in central Togo, will supply electricity to more than 158,000 houses while also reducing CO2 emissions by more than one million tonnes. Built by AMEA Togo Solar, a subsidiary […]
Twitter ban: Ruling party advises Nigerian youth to develop their own social media apps
Nigeria’s ruling party, The All Progressive Party (APC) has advised the youth to develop their own social media platforms as an alternative to twitter which was banned days after the President’s tweet was deleted. This call on the youth was made by Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe who is the APC’s caretaker national secretary. According to […]