Nigeria
Young Nigerian brothers 13 and 15yrs old build mobile Web Browser
These secondary school students taught themselves to code and, with encouragement from their parents and school, they’ve achieved something extraordinary.
Anesi and Osine Ikhianosime, 13 and 15 years old respectively, are students of Greensprings school, Anthony Campus, Lagos, and they developed an Android based web browser called Crocodile Browser Lite sometime last year. As a matter of fact, these teenagers’ creation is actually on the Google Play Store. Speaking to TechCabal.com, Osine, 13, said he writes the code together with his brother, for their creations and his brother also designs the UI.
At a closer look, these genius brothers are just like every other teenage boy but not quite at the same time. Osine likes to play soccer, but also takes coding as a hobby – which is not something every 13 year old boy does.
His interest in computers began at the tender age of 7, the same age which he and his brother –who was 9 at the time (born June 1, 1999), decided to start a company of their own. Inspired by Microsoft’s “Windows” platform, they initially named their new company ‘Doors’, but later changed the name to ‘BluDoors’ when they found out that the initial name had been taken.
Uganda
Uganda: Students work out a way to start cars that use fingerprints
A group of ICT students from Uganda’s Makerere University have come up with a way to make stealing your car a task by working out a way to start cars with fingerprints rather than car keys.
The innovation, named Kuwanza Gari ( Swahili word for , start a car) was worked on by 9 students namely, Ernest Ojakol, Michael Mawejje, Mark Musinguzi, Sheila Ankunda, Dominic Walusimbi, Nicholas Kayola, Anxious Ainebyona and Joseph Kitamirike and David Tusubira, from the School of Computing and Informatics Technology. New vision reported.
Togo
Made in Togo: a 3D printer from e-waste
Afate Gnikou is a systems developer. He’s fascinated by 3D printers and has one aim: to produce a commercially viable 3-dimensional printer from Togo, made mainly from e-waste.
In Togo’s capital Lomé piles of discarded computers, printers and scanners from industrialized countries accumulate in trash dumps. Gnikou has found a place to work on his invention in a group of hackers and like-minded computer-lovers.
South Africa
South African develops ‘waterless bath’
Ludwick Marishane is the Managing Director and founder of Headboy Industries Inc.
He is the country’s youngest patent-holder after having invented DryBath. Google named him as one of the 12 brightest young minds in the world in 2011. He studied BBusSc-Finance & Accounting at the University of Cape Town.
