Godwin Ajala is often remembered and celebrated as an American national hero who laid his life for the sake of countless people who were escaping from the World Trade Center

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.
The Jollof war is a never-ending war in Africa between Africans who come on social media to defend their Jollof over another.
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.
Founded in 2014 in Sierra Leone, West Africa, Salone Messenger is an online platform that tells Human Interest stories, among others.
John Edmonstone was an enslaved black man who taught the young and inexperienced Charles Darwin the skill of taxidermy.
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
Millions of people have either seen or read the story of the R.M.S Titanic. But how many of us have read about Joseph Phillipe Lemercier Laroche, a Haitian engineer –
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

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