Ghana's Car Hackers

In the tradition of the developing worlds version of Make, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology students and car tinkerers from Suame Magazine and elsewhere have entered a vehicle for the Mini Baja competition.This accomplishment has its roots in the story of Enoch Afudego who "...successfully assembled a saloon car. The car, which he named OTAVI, had the entire body including the bonnet, roof and boot designed and moulded with scrap metal and has the engine of an Opel Ascona...",Clubgh.The driver of this effort Abubakar Saddick of KNUST states "...At this stage I believe, we need to further develop our designs to a level that will enable us patent the design before we come out with mass production lines..."This encouraging example of Ivory tower/Informal industrialist cross-pollination should be emulated by the reinvented/ing African universities.