Inspiring African Stories

SendMe SL is an e-commerce platform that provides quality and safe deliveries like corporate delivery; door-to-door delivery; food delivery; pickup and personal delivery for businesses and consumers in Sierra Leone.
A Sierra Leonean by the name of Hafiz Alhassan Kanu has created an app called Supfrica and it's two times faster than WhatsApp.
Ivorian entrepreneur, Alain Capo-Chichi has made history by creating the country's first-ever locally-made smartphone, which aims to improve accessibility with voice commands in 16 of the 60 local languages in
A young Nigerian boy based in the United Kingdom, Chika Ofili, made a historical discovery in Mathematics by creating a new mathematical formula to make the study of mathematics easier
Emmanuel Alieu Mansaray is a 25-year-old self-taught Sierra Leonean innovator and engineer who built the first-ever locally made solar-powered car in Sierra Leone.
Isah Auwal-Barde, age 17, from Kano State in Nigeria has invented a robot that works with a robotic exoskeleton remote control.
In Nigeria, West Africa, a young and talented man named Honesty Godwin has built an electric wheelchair with an automatic obstacle avoidance system.
28 years old South African entrepreneur, computer scientist, and software developer, Lesley Ncube launched his own smartphone which he calls Shumi.
In South Africa, a 17-year-old student Utlwanang Mmeti who wants his sneaker brand to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs to start young has launched his own locally made sneaker
A 27-year-old Nigerian fabrication engineer and Chief Executive Officer of Bennie Technologies LTD., Jerry Mallo made history by building the first Nigerian-made fibre sports car in Nigeria and West Africa.
The video game designed by a young man of 24, draws its substance and form from the cultural riches of Niger. Coveryni Issa Mahaman's ambition is to make it an
In June 2020, a Ugandan innovator, researcher and engineer Christopher Nsamba, the founder and director of the African Space Research Program, designed the largest and most technologically advanced baby incubator
20-year-old Sierra Leonean Innovator, Mamadu Ndulador Bah known for his mind-blowing innovations developed a generator that works without fuel, water, or solar energy and it is CO2 free.
In South Africa, 22-year-old Mukundi Malovhele has shown the world that whatever the black man put his mind to, he will achieve it. The 22-year-old whose love and admiration for
Katrina Esau, popularly called Ouma [meaning grandmother] is the last survivor of South Africa’s oldest language, Njuu. At 88-year-old, grandmother Esau is working very hard and smart to ensure the

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