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Sierra Leone’s renowned inventor, Mohamed Kamara, piloted the first-ever hydropower generator built from tablespoons and other scrapyard materials at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria’s first university.
Over the past years, Kamara’s work has addressed some of the toughest social problems affecting our societies, such as waste management.
He has recycled plastic and discarded tires into household furniture and construction materials like bricks, roofs, and pavement tiles.
Kamara has taken his craft international by working with the University of Ibadan through the Center for Petroleum, Energy, Economics, and Law to build a hydropower generator using tablespoons and other scrapyard materials
Additionally, Kamara developed a windmill using local materials, harnessing wind power to generate electricity. The hydropower generator can supply energy to rural and deprived communities, with a system capacity of 2KW, sufficient to power 50 rural homes with bulbs and other electronic devices.
During his visit, Kamara also signed a partnership to further scale this project in Nigeria, aiming for commercialization to address the energy challenges in Nigeria and the rest of Africa.
The project was supervised by Professor Kelleh Manasaray, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Fourah Bay College, and Professor Falode at the University of Ibadan.
Salone get talent. Hope he can get the necessary support. That’s the only difference between an African innovation. And elsewhere I was thinking about this, after I saw videos of a Zimbabwean, that was visited by some scientists from the USA. I was imagining if there could be our own that can do something about our energy
More so when I heard that international donors, pledge over $800 MILLION to support our energy crisis. Hope that mohamed will be amongst the beneficiary