INVENTION SCHOOL

The technological progress of Africa and its diasporans was dramatically broken beginning with slavery and later through its colonization by European powers. With the arrival of the 21st century, a new era of an awakened Africa has dawned. In the graphic novel series we are developing entitled "Invention School", curious young African students explore their creative potential for solving everyday problems through a subset of engineering skills under the watchful and loving guidance of highly skilled and creative science and engineering inventors from throughout the African diaspora. In order to complement this dream of an imaginary "Invention School" we have chosen to establish a real-world invention school such as this in Marimanti, Kenya within Tharaka-Nithi County. We are preparing a generation of African inventors. We are forging a new narrative of progress and innovation among Tharaka's youth backed by a "can do" spirit and a desire to dream big through the use of effective..