African Inventions are very important. The media is an important tool that plays a significant role in forming and influencing people’s perceptions and interpretations of Africa, African people, and individuals of African heritage. We can all agree that Western media perpetuate negative preconceptions about Africa by depicting the continent as one that is beset by poverty, violence, and sickness. This, in turn, contributes to the perpetuation of more negative ideas. The rapidly expanding number of young people in Africa is altering the western world’s narrative and view of the continent. There are millions of people living in Africa who are now making contributions to the continent’s technological industry.
Jerry Issac Mallo, a Nigerian fabrication engineer who is also the Chief Executive Officer of Bennie Technologies LTD, made history by constructing the first Nigerian-made fiber sports vehicle in Nigeria and West Africa. Mallo is 27 years old. In the year 1994, Jerry Issac Mallo was born in the state of Plateau. He attended King’s School in Gana Ropp, which is located in the state of Plateau. This was the beginning of his formal education.
If The African Dream Book is to be believed, After finishing his primary schooling, he continued his studies at the Boys Secondary School in Gindiri, which is located in the state of Plateau. He was awarded a scholarship and attended the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. During his time in high school, he focused on painting. When he wished to take the senior high school certificate test, he made the decision to change his major to one of the sciences. In the end, he decided to attend university and major in Engineering.
Jerry Mallo had a clear goal in mind even when he was just five years old: he wanted to have a career in the motor business. Jerry Mallo began crafting toy vehicles out of rubbish while he was a child living in a rural community in Nigeria. During an interview, he spoke such words to Tayo Aina, a Nigerian YouTuber: “I always wanted my toy vehicles to be the finest among my peer group.” I consistently devoted my time to the process of manufacturing them. At one point, I made the tires out of old slippers that I had lying around. Even my brand-new slippers are put to use on occasion to get the desired effect.
In 2012, at the age of 18 and while he was still attending secondary school, he constructed his first automobile out of rubbish that was “life-size.” He left his studies unfinished in the UK and went back to Nigeria to launch a vehicle manufacturing business there instead. According to him, Africa possesses all of the resources and raw materials that are required in the construction of automobiles, but unfortunately, vehicles are only rarely manufactured in Africa.
Therefore, one of the reasons why he decided to pursue a career in the production of automobiles is so that he might fill that gap in the market. Jerry Isaac Mallo, Chief Executive Officer of Bennie Technologies Limited, created waves around the country in November of 2019 when he debuted Nigeria’s first luxury sports vehicle, the Bennie Purrie.
This event garnered media attention across the country. The Bennie Purrie is not the entrepreneur and automobile engineer’s first significant product; however, it is the first product to be designed using carbon fiber to give it a more durable safety quality.Mallo had for a long time established the Jos-based Bennie as a “machine design, fabrication, and manufacturing firm that streamlines local agricultural operations via mechanization and automation.” This was the company’s corporate identity. In addition, he made news the year before by presenting Nigeria with its first locally manufactured ventilator, which was intended to assist the Nigerian government in battling the COVID-19 virus.
“In Europe, we discovered that creating the automobile is simply half of the difficulty, and selling it is the other half,” he said in an interview with Channels TV. “Africa is normally the target destination to sell these vehicles, so I feel that there’s a great demand for it here.” Regarding the safety features of the material, he explained that the majority of people are crushed and mashed in cars because those cars are made from aluminum or galvanized sheets, which are unable to absorb shocks when traveling at high speeds. The material in question is the one being discussed here.
The sports car owned by Bennie Purrie has a fantastic cooling system, with four radiators to guarantee that the inside temperature is maintained at a comfortable level regardless of the outside weather. This initial model features a 2.0-liter engine that generates around 130 horsepower and has an acceleration time of 12 seconds while going from 0 to 120 kilometers per hour. The “Bennie Purrie” is constructed out of fibers that, in the event of a collision, will shatter in a manner analogous to that of glass or bottles, while the occupants of the vehicle will be protected by the airbags.
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This automobile also features a tubular chassis, which makes it capable of withstanding the rough terrain seen in Nigeria. During an interview with Tedge News, he was asked about what drives him, and he gave the following answer: “I studied automotive engineering, that’s the manufacturing of cars, not mechanical, and I’m building agro equipment and other hardware, not because that’s what I studied in school but what I’ve learned. It was self-thought. I learned it online. Google and YouTube are where I spent most of my time and my time in the morning. I learn from there.”
I DON’T EXPECT NIGERIANS TO ACCEPT NIGERIAN PRODUCT AT ONCE. I KNOW AND BELIEVE IT’S A GRADUAL PROCESS. GRADUALLY, YOU’LL HAVE TO GIVE THEM REASONS TO BELIEVE IN IT; YOU’LL HAVE TO PROVE TO THEM THAT IT HAS A BETTER QUALITY, YOU’LL HAVE TO GIVE THEM A REASON TO USE NIGERIAN. OVER TIME, I HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT THE PATRONAGE WOULD GET BETTER.
Jerry Mallo
He is involved in more than just the production of sports automobiles. In addition to it, Jerry Mallo manufactures agricultural machines. Bennie Agro Ltd. is his second business, and it is an agro and industrial machine design and fabrication firm that is based in Jos, Plateau. The firm designs and builds machines that improve the efficiency of agricultural procedures and increase the value of crops.
They achieve this by meeting with farmers, listening to the issues that they face, and developing designs that provide the best solutions to these issues, thus making the farmers’ agricultural operations simpler through mechanization and automation. Tractors, planters, weeding machines, harvesters, and threshers are some of the agricultural machines that are fabricated by Bennie Agro Ltd. The company also produces other types of agricultural machinery. In addition to that, he has invented machines that can process a variety of foods, including rice, maize, cassava, millet, peanuts, and oilseeds.
