This for you tech bros/gurus here at mesh .Recently I saw a guy who mirrors how African tech potential looks like. He manufactures motherboards right here in Kenya. Not assembling, but actually designing and producing them. The guy holds a PhD in Solid State Science from Penn State, did advanced R&D in Japan, and then made the bold decision to return to Kenya to build his own company from the ground up.

What’s even more remarkable? He’s not just serving local markets—he exports to Japan and the US.

It’s both inspiring and a bit disheartening—his work gets major attention abroad, but barely registers locally.

It makes you think: How many brilliant innovators across Africa are doing world-class work but remain in the shadows because we haven’t built systems to celebrate, support, or even notice them?

We talk a lot about “local solutions for local problems” and “Africa rising,” but are we really investing attention in the people already pushing boundaries? Maybe it’s time we shifted from just consuming tech to actively backing our homegrown inventors !