Greetings and welcome to Africa Engineering News.
I am Winnie O, and I am the founder of this lovely platform that you have shown interest in, so thank you. Thank you for taking interest in the Africa Rising Movement. Over the past few years we have seen this accelerated shift in the level of development and innovation taking place across the African continent. Often, we as Africans, and the world at large, rarely get to see that positivity and acknowledgement on the broader stage. I was inspired to do something about it; so, I did. I decided to create a platform that is a singular source for all things engineering, innovation, technology, and various industry updates all in one. Now before you check out and say engineering and tech news don’t really concern me, keep in Mind these are topics that permeate every aspect of our daily lives; be it transportation, infrastructure, medical innovations or lack thereof within our communities, economic development, Politics, or access to the internet and information right in the palm of your hand. STEM fields as well as the ARTS have been an integral part of how we live and transform our lives, and we are seeing that more evidently, especially during this COVID19 season.
The reality is that Africa, to this day, has a very misrepresented or skewed narrative to the rest of the world. We as Africans both within the continent and throughout the diaspora have not been able to share our stories from our own perspectives; at least not on a comparable scale to the general mass media. Therefore, others have been telling our stories, from their own vantage points and that, for the most part, has been very problematic.
My aim in launching this platform, is to help change the narrative in a very intentional manner. I would like to share technical content not only with my peers but with the broader non-technical audience as well. What good is it if we as the STEM community continue conducting the research and publishing internally but cannot explain the topics in a manner the general populous can understand and buy into -and therefore support when we need political backing to implement necessary developmental changes. Most importantly, these are changes that affect entire communities, because what we do; our research and innovations impact real people, in real communities and have generational effects. We as Africans are not just numbers and data outputs on a spreadsheet, we are real people with multifaceted life experiences, and we need leaders who are more cognizant of that fact.
So, if you like what you’re hearing and are vibing with what Africa engineering news stands for, join the community; we’d love your participation. Join the conversation on our various social media platforms @AfricaEngineeringNews.
Sincerely,
Winnie Okello, P.E
A.E.N -Founder
