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Oshiorenoya Agabi is fusing living brain cells with silicon chips to create computers that can "smell" explosives and disease. His journey from Surulere to Silicon Valley is rewriting the global tech rules.
From a six-hour hospital wait in Accra to leading global AI policy, Darlington Akogo is building 'digital doctors' to bridge Africa’s specialist gap.
Medical documentation is slow, but for African doctors, Western AI makes it impossible by failing to recognise local accents. Tobi Olatunji’s Intron Health is fixing the 'Acoustic Gap.' By training AI on over 200 distinct African dialects, they are saving doctors seven hours a week and ensuring that no patient’s story is lost in translation.
In the Sahel, the sun is a threat to medicine. A single degree of heat can ruin a year’s worth of vaccines. Christian Cédric Toé built a backpack that doesn't just carry medicine: it thinks.
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