Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation
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United Kingdom| Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Exceptional contributions to engineering |
| Sponsored by | Royal Academy of Engineering |
| Date | 2014 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | Royal Academy of Engineering  |
| Reward | £25,000 |
| Website | africaprize.raeng.org.uk |
The Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation is an award for excellence in engineering in Sub-Saharan Africa.[1][2] Eight months are set aside to help the contestants.[3] The winner is awarded £25,000, with the second, third and fourth runners-up gaining £10,000 each.[1]
The award was introduced in January 2014 by the Royal Academy of Engineering in the United Kingdom. Competitor engineers must be from Sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2024 Esther Kimani was the winner of the prize and, because it was the award's tenth year, she was awarded £50,000. She was second winner from Kenya. Kimani had developed a method of identifying diseases in crops using image analysis.[4]
A web based App that translates speech to sign language in real-time took the 2025 "Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation. The app was called Terp 360 and it was developed by Elly Savatia from Kenya. The speech is translated by AI in real-time to be performed by 3D avatars. The development included over 2,000 local signs in order that it could be adopted easily.[5]