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Kwadwo Safo
is a Ghanaian inventor born in 1948 and the father of Ghana’s first home made cars. In 1971, he founded the Kristo Asafo Church which has since then fundamentally contributed in developing and promoting science and technology of local origin in Ghana.

In 1998, he manufactured the Kantanka Saloon car. In 2006, the Kantanka Onantefo I (4x4) was manufactured and an improved model was produced in June 2007 called Kantanka Onantefo II (4x4). On December 30, 2007, the Kantanka Obrempon (a black 4x4 limousine), which is 26 meters long, and a yellow excavator with caterpillar tracks were exhibited as well.


 
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Professor Souleymane Mboup is a renowned Senegalese scientist who holds PhDs in Bacteriology, Virology and Pharmacy. He is mostly known for having, with other scientists from the US and Europe, discovered a new HIV virus referred to as HIV-2 as opposed to HIV-1, the first virus that was discovered.

 
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Saheed Adepoju, 29, is a Nigerian inventor and co-developer of a tablet (touchpad) called Inye which means "One" in Igala language. He holds a degree in Maths and Computer Science from the Federal University of Technology, Minna (Nigeria, 2005) and an Advanced Computing degree from Bournemouth University (UK, 2008).

He is the co-founder with Anibe Agamah of a technology firm called Encipher Group that commercializes the tablet. Anibe Agamah is also a long time friend of Saheed Adepoju with whom he has designed the Inye Tablet. They started being attracted by computers and the like when they were still teenagers.

 
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Arthur Zang
completed in June 2012 the assembly of 30 copies of the Cardio Pad with the financial support of the Cameroonian State (something rare enough in Africa not be noticed and applauded). Indeed, the Cameroonian government has allocated 20 million CFA francs (30,500 euros) to the engineer to materialize part of his project.

 
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Solomon Assefa, Ethiopian-American, is a researcher with IBM working on a project that will enable electronic chips to communicate with pulses of light, instead of electrical signals. Indeed, computer chips currently have copper wires inside. What he is working on is a new way of making a photodetector. A photodetector is a very sensitive device that amplifies optical signals and then converts them into electrical signals that can be shuttled around in a microprocessor. This could give birth to computers that are more power efficient and up to 1,000 times faster thanks to optical communication based on nanophotonics.


 
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Chairless Chair from Noonee
A CNN profile of a breakthrough product Noonee co-founded by Keith Gunura:




It's like a chair that isn't there, but magically appears whenever you need it. It's called the Chairless Chair and you wear it on your legs like an exoskeleton: when it's not activated, you can walk normally or even run. And then, at the touch of a button, it locks into place and you can sit down on it. Like a chair that is now there.
 
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Kenyan cloud startup Angani has closed a seed funding rounding, with the venture planning to take the East African cloud market by the end of 2015.

The funding round was led by Invested Development, with participation from Africa’s Talking, Savannah Fund, and Africa Angels Network. The value of the funding has not been disclosed.

Angani is the first East African fully automated public cloud infrastructure company; with the startup focusing primarily on the small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market, as well as the financial services and media industries.
 
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In The Gambia, Anthony Tabbal has established a business making fuel briquettes from groundnut shells. He was inspired to do this by his concern over deforestation in the country, with many trees being felled for firewood and charcoal making. With support from the Gambian Groundnut Company he obtains the waste shells for free, which enables him to keep the price of the briquettes down, costing less than charcoal while also being much cleaner and more efficient

 
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Mutura The African Sausage



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Kenyans from all walks of life have at one time or another had the pleasure of eating Mutura or African Sausage. Whether it’s on your way from school or work as you pass by the roadside butchery or during festivities that include goat roasting, you name it! The exciting thing is this, a portion goes for as little as Ksh. 10 (USD 0.12). No goat eating eating function is complete without mutura, this is normally one of the highlights of the whole event. The process of making it varies among different people and this is dependent on their backgrounds and preferences.
 
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