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Berekuso, Ghana
Joined April 2010
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Ashesi University retweeted
🇨🇭🇬🇭 The new Swiss Ambassador’s visit to Ashesi University highlighted growing Swiss-Ghana partnerships in education, innovation and entrepreneurship. Together with ETH Zurich and HSG, Ashesi is helping shape Ghana’s future innovators and leaders. #SECO #Ashesi #ETHZurich #HSG
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Honoured to be featured by my alma mater @Ashesi
While studying at Ashesi, Benedict Quartey ’18 worked with Dr. Ayorkor Korsah to develop RollE, an affordable, modular autonomous vehicle that allowed students and researchers to experiment with self-driving technology without expensive equipment. The project introduced him to research and helped set him on a path toward doctoral studies.
His work later expanded to speech technology for Ghanaian languages, including research resources that developers could use to build applications in Asante Twi, Akuapem Twi, Fante, and Ga.
Today, Quartey’s doctoral research at Brown University explores how robots can combine learned skills to carry out unfamiliar tasks. He has also co-founded Primordiant, a company developing robots that can observe, propose explanations, and run experiments.
Since building RollE at Ashesi, Quartey has continued to explore how technology can help people investigate problems and test ideas in new ways.
Read Quartey's story: ashe.si/3Wazkm2
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Nana Oye Djan ’19 first stepped into research by asking whether biology could help make gold mining less harmful in Ghana.
As a Mechanical Engineering student at Ashesi, she joined the University’s first iGEM team in 2017. The experience took her beyond her discipline as she and her teammates learned biology, built equipment, and explored an engineered organism that could detect and measure gold in ore.
Years later, her research is focused on another environmental question: how are inland surface waters across sub-Saharan Africa changing, and what role is climate change playing?
Now a doctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, Djan uses remote-sensing data to investigate these changes and help build evidence that can inform decisions around climate adaptation and mitigation.
Read Djan's story: ashe.si/4zW5zUx
We love seeing connections like these, and it’s great that you and @Benedict_Q are staying in touch @JeffDean. Come visit again soon!
I have enjoyed chatting with @Benedict_Q many times, and enjoyed meeting him when I visited Ashesi. Great writeup!
While studying at Ashesi, Benedict Quartey ’18 worked with Dr. Ayorkor Korsah to develop RollE, an affordable, modular autonomous vehicle that allowed students and researchers to experiment with self-driving technology without expensive equipment. The project introduced him to research and helped set him on a path toward doctoral studies.
His work later expanded to speech technology for Ghanaian languages, including research resources that developers could use to build applications in Asante Twi, Akuapem Twi, Fante, and Ga.
Today, Quartey’s doctoral research at Brown University explores how robots can combine learned skills to carry out unfamiliar tasks. He has also co-founded Primordiant, a company developing robots that can observe, propose explanations, and run experiments.
Since building RollE at Ashesi, Quartey has continued to explore how technology can help people investigate problems and test ideas in new ways.
Read Quartey's story: ashe.si/3Wazkm2
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We’re LIVE!
Join us for the inaugural Ashesi Distinguished Lecture Series as Professor Ato Quayson explores The Stories We Live By: Africa’s Diverse Diasporas Through the Lens of Liberal Education.
Watch now: ashe.si/livestream
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David Darkwa '08 has spent his career exploring ways to make financial systems more accessible. He helped develop a platform that enabled people to withdraw cash from ATMs without a bank card, which was later deployed by multiple banks across West Africa. Earlier, his research at Microsoft Research India examined how people with limited literacy could use mobile money services more successfully.
His work has since expanded to financial inclusion for women and young people in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Zambia, as well as refugee finance through Mercy Corps in Uganda.
Across these projects, Darkwa looks beyond whether a technology works to whether people can access it, trust it, and find lasting value in using it.
Read Darkwa’s story: ashe.si/4iKlOyb
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Since the Class of 2026 first joined Ashesi, seven new programs have begun enrolling students, including Biological Engineering, Mechatronic Engineering, Intelligent Computing Systems, Economics, and Law with Public Policy.
Students have also been testing ideas through research and senior-year projects, from engineered bacteria for shoreline defense to robots designed to clean wastewater pipes.
With new partnerships, faculty, and spaces such as the Center for Science, Technology and Engineering, Ashesi continues to give students more opportunities to learn, experiment, and build.
Read more: ashe.si/3TvMfOf
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#atAshesi, Micaiah Wiafe’17 discovered an interest in augmented reality after an introduction to 3D modeling opened up new possibilities for combining art and technology.
Beyond the computer science classroom, he explored photography and helped create Ashesi’s first yearbook. These experiences helped shape his path into a career as a Snap Lens creator and extended reality technologist.
Since graduating, he has continued to explore how technology can bring new perspectives to familiar places. One of his most rewarding projects is a video game based on the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, designed to help students outside Accra experience Ghana’s cultural and historical heritage, even from a distance.
Watch Wiafe’s story: ashe.si/4s6iIrg
Ashesi University retweeted
Day 1 of the Translational Research and Innovation Bootcamp 2026 kicked off with engaging panel discussions and insightful conversations on advancing biotechnology and translational research in Africa.
A great start to an exciting week ahead!
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We’re live at the Translational Research & Innovation Bootcamp 2026!
Bringing together 35 innovators from 9 African countries, the bootcamp is creating space for researchers and innovators to explore how scientific discoveries can move from the lab to real-world solutions.
Join us online: ashe.si/4zZeQLE
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Ashesi University retweeted
For Cohort 7 of the Ashesi Venture Incubator, a year of building led to this: 4 founders, $25K each, and plans to go further. Hear it from them.
#AshesiEntrepreneurs #BuiltForBuilders – at Accra, Ghana
Ashesi University retweeted
A week ago today, we hosted the first edition of our public speaking and confidence seminar: Unmute Yo’Self. Thank you to @Ashesi @MaltaGuinnessGh, our speakers and the Accra AI Community Center for helping us pull it off. #sincerelyaccra
From November 2 to 6, 35 innovators from nine African countries will participate in the maiden Translational Research & Innovation Bootcamp 2026, organized by Ashesi, @YemaachiBio, and the African Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology.
Over five days, they will explore how to move promising ideas from prototypes toward commercially viable products, learning about regulation, funding, product testing, and building partnerships along the way.
Who are the innovators behind these ideas, and what are they building?
Meet the cohort.
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Dalitso Ndirsa Kathyola supports innovations that make healthcare more accessible in communities where distance, infrastructure, and cost are barriers. At the @MLW_Programme, she works with the Innovation and Translation Unit, supporting three innovations: a dried blood spot kit for diagnosing central nervous system infections without a cold chain, a rapid test that detects cholera directly from stool samples, and a portable, battery-powered cooler for transporting vaccines to remote communities.
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Gbolahan Oduselu is a postdoctoral researcher at the @WACCBIP_UG, where he combines artificial intelligence, computational chemistry, and medicinal chemistry to identify potential treatments for infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance.
Beyond his research, he is building the Drug Discovery Innovation Hub, an initiative that mentors young scientists and promotes approaches to reduce the time and risk of early-stage drug discovery, particularly in resource-constrained settings.
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Nine faculty-led research projects have been selected for Ashesi University’s inaugural Ashesi Program for Innovation, Research, and Entrepreneurship (ASPIRE) Fellowship.
The projects address challenges across Ghana and Africa, from reducing food spoilage in Accra’s vegetable markets to improving access to eye care and developing ways to detect digital fraud. Others will examine workplace conditions, legal reform, and how students learn science.
The fellowship also creates opportunities for undergraduate scholars and graduate research assistants to work alongside faculty, gaining practical research experience while contributing to projects that connect academic inquiry with real-world challenges.
Read more: ashe.si/3VH5TrA
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Ashesi University retweeted
The Translational Research and Innovation Bootcamp is happening from 2-6 November 2026! 🎉🎉
Join us for a week of learning, collaboration, and skill-building to strengthen research capacity and drive innovation.
🎥: @Ashesi
#Bootcamp #Research #Innovation