Baila Ndiaye, he engineered and built a car in the technical school of Thiès, the third largest city in Senegal.

He did it entirely with recycled materials. He is a chemist, not even a mechanical engineer, yet his car can reach a speed of up to 100 kilometres per hour.

You wonder how he was able to imagine such a machine.

He’s said he also wants to build a tractor and a plane. So there you have it.

African inventors with great ideas who need nothing more than to be taken seriously.

People like Baila Ndiaye are the reason we have become active in the maker movement.