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August 2015

Row as Kenyan claims his famous biogas invention was stolen by German

An article published on BBC glorifying an invention by Katrin Puetz has stirred controversy after a Kenyan, Dominic Wanjihia, emerged to claim the idea. The article tells the story of how Ethiopians are benefiting from the use of a portable biogas digestor, B-Energy, whose invention they credit to Puetz. “B-Energy is the brainchild of German […]

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Amisha saw the limitless potential in the superfruit that is baobab (mabuyu), and she is doing a good job selling its health benefits to the world

Amisha Patel is a third generation Kenyan, and like many Kenyan-Asians, her great grandfather came to Kenya during construction of Kenya Uganda Railway. She was born in Mombasa and did her schooling in Nairobi, Eldoret and Nakuru. She later joined Egerton University, Njoro, where I obtained Bachelors Degree, (First Class Hons.) in Biomedical Science and

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