Thursday, October 29, 2009

Gabriel Kondesi's Pachikweza Radio Station

When will we have the instinctive ability to recognize innovation and not punish it? From Malawi comes the story of arrested(later released) radio operator, Gabriel Kondesi:


A Standard 7 dropout, Gabriel Kondensi from Mulanje district(Malawi), built and operated a radio station known as Pachikweza. He was using a set of three transistors to penetrate the airwaves and a set of batteries as a source of power. His radio was running phone-in programs at 98.5 FM.
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1 comments:

Jobs said...

That is why Africa will still be continue to be behind in terms of technological development, when we see good thing, we refuse to acknowledge and nurture it to grow, just imagine