debunk negatives stories of Africa
Invalidate Negative stereotypes about Africa...
More than 1.1 billion of the world’s population call it home, it is a rich and diverse place. It encompasses more than 1,500 languages and 16 percent of the world’s population, it has the world's oldest record of human technological achievement. It's Africa yes it's Africa, a continent of solutions, where the western world take our gradual growth for no growth our little discoveries for lack of intelligence and lack of innovations.
Offshore Africa, there are common myths, negative stereotypes about Africa. Some say Africa embrace Voodoo or black magic, some say Africa is a country not a continent, some say Africa is disease ridden, they also say it's unsafe to visit Africa, some say all Africans are poor, some even say Africa lack innovative intelligence hmmm!!!
The fact remains constant that a people in some African countries lack access to quality education and resources, but Obviously do they make most use of what they have. They are undoubtedly resourceful and innovative.
The Western world refuses to acknowledge their vast skills on technological innovations.
Consider the following African inventions as examples.
Charging shoes
Kenyan inventor Anthony Mutua has developed a rather ingenuous way of charging mobile phones – using the power of pedestrians. His invention comprises of ultra-thin chips of crystal which are fitted to the bottom of a shoe’s sole. As the user walks, it generates electricity through the pressure exerted when it is stepped on.
Cardiopad
The Cardiopad, a computer tablet that enables heart examinations like electrocardiograms (ECG) to be conducted at remote, rural locations, was created and developed by Cameroonian entrepreneur Marc Arthur Zang Adzaba. The device is most effective in areas where such crucial diagnostic tests have never been made available.
CAT scan
Being widely used in the medical field across the world, few patients know that when they lie down for a computed axial tomography scan, or CAT scan, the technology was actually invented by South African. While it was developed at Tufts University in the UK, the person responsible for the imaging equipment was South African physicist Allan Cormack and Godfrey Hounsfield of EMI Laboratories. Recognizing their major efforts in the medical field, the pair was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Cybertracker
The cybertracker was invented by Lindsay Stevenson in 1996. This African technology is used to track insects, birds and animals by the use of a satellite navigational system. The skilled but illiterate San trackers can store information on different animals on this device. This includes the overall population of a species, their location, the number of males and females, where and how the animals feed and what the animals do to mark their territories. This is one of the most amazing African inventions that found its use in the Animal kingdom.
Quiet Cellular Antenna Technology
This is one of the most intriguing African inventions and Paul van Jaarsveld and Gordon Mayhew, who are South Africans were the brains behind it. The quiet cellular antennae technology has a square kilometer array plan that reduces noisy cellular emissions from base stations used by cellular companies. This African technology is based on one phased-array principle that blocks radio frequency transmissions along a given direction and also provides an omnidirectional coverage.
Africa is a continent with much to offer the rest of the world.
Its youth and young adults are voraciously determined to make an impact on the world.
There are a lot of innovations already in Africa and yet, more to be discovered.
I want to move Africa, I want to make Africa, I have innovations. I rep #AlternativeStories @creativityWeek.
More than 1.1 billion of the world’s population call it home, it is a rich and diverse place. It encompasses more than 1,500 languages and 16 percent of the world’s population, it has the world's oldest record of human technological achievement. It's Africa yes it's Africa, a continent of solutions, where the western world take our gradual growth for no growth our little discoveries for lack of intelligence and lack of innovations.
Offshore Africa, there are common myths, negative stereotypes about Africa. Some say Africa embrace Voodoo or black magic, some say Africa is a country not a continent, some say Africa is disease ridden, they also say it's unsafe to visit Africa, some say all Africans are poor, some even say Africa lack innovative intelligence hmmm!!!
The fact remains constant that a people in some African countries lack access to quality education and resources, but Obviously do they make most use of what they have. They are undoubtedly resourceful and innovative.
The Western world refuses to acknowledge their vast skills on technological innovations.
Consider the following African inventions as examples.
Charging shoes
Kenyan inventor Anthony Mutua has developed a rather ingenuous way of charging mobile phones – using the power of pedestrians. His invention comprises of ultra-thin chips of crystal which are fitted to the bottom of a shoe’s sole. As the user walks, it generates electricity through the pressure exerted when it is stepped on.
Cardiopad
The Cardiopad, a computer tablet that enables heart examinations like electrocardiograms (ECG) to be conducted at remote, rural locations, was created and developed by Cameroonian entrepreneur Marc Arthur Zang Adzaba. The device is most effective in areas where such crucial diagnostic tests have never been made available.
CAT scan
Being widely used in the medical field across the world, few patients know that when they lie down for a computed axial tomography scan, or CAT scan, the technology was actually invented by South African. While it was developed at Tufts University in the UK, the person responsible for the imaging equipment was South African physicist Allan Cormack and Godfrey Hounsfield of EMI Laboratories. Recognizing their major efforts in the medical field, the pair was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Cybertracker
The cybertracker was invented by Lindsay Stevenson in 1996. This African technology is used to track insects, birds and animals by the use of a satellite navigational system. The skilled but illiterate San trackers can store information on different animals on this device. This includes the overall population of a species, their location, the number of males and females, where and how the animals feed and what the animals do to mark their territories. This is one of the most amazing African inventions that found its use in the Animal kingdom.
Quiet Cellular Antenna Technology
This is one of the most intriguing African inventions and Paul van Jaarsveld and Gordon Mayhew, who are South Africans were the brains behind it. The quiet cellular antennae technology has a square kilometer array plan that reduces noisy cellular emissions from base stations used by cellular companies. This African technology is based on one phased-array principle that blocks radio frequency transmissions along a given direction and also provides an omnidirectional coverage.
Africa is a continent with much to offer the rest of the world.
Its youth and young adults are voraciously determined to make an impact on the world.
There are a lot of innovations already in Africa and yet, more to be discovered.
I want to move Africa, I want to make Africa, I have innovations. I rep #AlternativeStories @creativityWeek.
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