Harambee: The Spirit of Innovation in Africa
  • 2022/361 pages
  • Distributed for Best Red, an imprint of HSRC Press

Harambee:

The Spirit of Innovation in Africa

Mike Bruton
Paperback: $42.00
ISBN: 978-1-928246-41-1
Ebook: $42.00
ISBN: 978-1-928246-52-7
How many inventions come from Africa? How many African countries have produced their own cars? Why is the M-Pesa mobile money system so important? Is the nature of innovation in Africa different from what we find elsewhere? In Harambee ("working together"), Mike Bruton addresses these and related questions as he remarkably discusses more than 800 inventions and innovations by more than 600 innovators from 50 African countries.

From mompreneurs to moguls, waste pickers to fintech wizards, locust whisperers to rocket scientists, Bruton showcases the creativity of the continent’s techpreneurs. The result is an insightful—and intriguing—introduction to the many significant advances in science and technology that have been made on the continent at the low-, medium-, and high-tech levels.
Mike Bruton holds a PhD in ichthyology from Rhodes University. He initially worked as a marine biologist, but over the past two decades he has focused on science center and museum design and development, the psychology of learning, and the history of  science and technology.