Central Africa

William Elong is a Cameroonian tech entrepreneur credited with launching the first drone made in Cameroon. Elong achieved this milestone at the age of 26. He earned a...

As college students across the country return to classrooms for the fall semester, Georgia Tech is welcoming a 13-year-old teen who hopes to major in aerospace engineering.  ...

Magofarm, started in 2019, is a Rwandan company that produces animal feed proteins from insects. Founder Moses Katala (23) answers our questions. 1. Give us your elevator pitch. We are...

A conversation with Baraka Jeremiah, founder of Kilimo Fresh and winner of MEST Africa Challenge 2020 The MEST Africa Challenge is Africa’s biggest tech startup pitch competition offering...

“I spent four decades of my life thinking how to treat patients with the Ebola virus. So this is the achievement of my life,” Dr Jean-Jacques Muyembe, who...

Viola Llewellyn is the co-founder and the president of Ovamba Solutions, a US-based fintech company that provides micro, small and medium enterprises in Africa and the Middle East...

Named in 2017 as one of the  100 Most Influential Africans in SCIENCE, TECH & INNOVATION  by the New African Magazine and Jeune Afrique’s 50 Most Influential Africans, Rebecca Enonchong has dedicated her career to promoting...

Africa’s population will double within the next three decades to an estimated 2.5 billion, with one billion being youth. According to United Nations data the continent is expected...

She is popularly known as the woman who fought for an end to child marriages in Tanzania and won. Tanzania is one of the African countries with the highest rates...

When Iddris Sandu was in high school, he developed a mobile software that would later gain the attention of former U.S. president Barack Obama and land him at...