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The international (and sometime local) press has made Africa to be a continent riddled with hunger, war, corruption, HIV etc... What most people don't know is that Africa is also a continent full of ingenuity, many times in areas that you least expect to see it. There are incredible innovation every day in thousands of villages, godowns, roadside shops and homes throughout Africa. This creativity and ingenuity is brough about by the need to survive.
One such ingeneous innovation is welding machine made by a jua kali artisan in Kenya. Jua kali literally means hot sun in Kiswahili, and refers to the informal small traders who work outdoors in the sun fabricating mostly work metal and wood items, fixing cars and other household items. Unable to afford new tools they fabricate their own out of locally available materials.
This Jua Kali artisan build a welder using scrap metal, wires coated for insulation using strips of cloth torn from old clothes. This is then wound into the welding machine coils. This welding machine is then used to create works of art from wrought iron. I have posted pictures of the jua kali welder with my photos - amazing!! More information on this and other exampls of African ingenuity can be found at Paula Kahumbu's blog.
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