Check it: a group of students from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda designed this “poor man’s car” from upcycled farm equipment and other salvaged materials, including an engine ripped from an old maize grinding mill.
Photo by Dr. Yasin Naku Ziraba via Wired.com
Supercool. To all who say Makerere has slipped in quality and no longer deserves the “Harvard of Africa” rep, I have two words for you: pooh and pooh.
Note: I found the Wired.com post about this project via Nubian Cheetah, a blog suggested to me by Google Reader, presumably because of my ever-growing folder of African blogs. Yay technology.
Tags: africa, car, kampala, maize, Makarere, Nubian Cheetah, tractors, uganda, Wired, Wired.com
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