Beg to differ on this @masukuma philosophy. sometimes we have to rig up things and then ask;what can this be used for, eg. when LASER was discovered/invented, it had no practical use but today is what we use to transmit data at the speed of light. On the other hand you can have old technology eg the wheel, but it is only recently that we fitted wheels to suitcases, relieving the tired hands of thousands of travellers in airports and bus stations. The problems in africa that require what may looks like simple solutions are many but no one is doing anything about it eg. women are fetching water in jerricans from rivers and wells long distances from their homes, whoever comes up with a women-friendly water jerrican easy to carry, load and clean should get a Nobel prize

This one is available.

It is called a chaff cutter!

But Kenya though a 3rd World country have resources to invest in Research and development.Our universities get billions every year to invest in research but all we see is theories and stories.Our Military with the billions we are giving them should borrow a leaf from the US and Israel Military and invest in research and development.

We are not referring to adding value but increasing efficiency.

For example the typical household chores take up a whole day and these are duties that would easily be compressed into a couple of hours.

The reason the ugali example comes up is due to the fact that the same is not a common meal in the west as it is especially in Kenya and thus the lack of ways to make preparing the same more efficient come into question.

Of course there are more examples like why would people especially in rural areas suffer when rivers dry up, while building dams is a technology even beavers have mastered.

even leaving out the complex solutions, what we need for now are just basic solutions, as someone says hata kupanda nyasi ni shida and we have to wait for fifa to come do it for us.

I don't think building roads, or supplying water, or even power are complex problems.