Emmanuel Alie Mansaray🇸🇱

Self-taught engineer
Inventor,
Creative thinker
Geologist,
Creative writer,
Renewable energy enthusiasts,
Motivational speaker

[Emmanuel Alie Mansaray🇸🇱 @EAMansaray]

Connecting Science to Communities: Dr. Bridget Bannerman's Mission to Deliver Health Equity - Schlumberger Foundation https://t.co/puU9uTM7NB

[Emmanuel Alie Mansaray🇸🇱 @EAMansaray]

Proud moment! 🏆 Hard work, consistency, and faith made this possible. This recognition means so much to me and reminds me that passion, creativity, and consistency truly pay off. This is a milestone I celebrate with everyone who has supported my journey.

[Emmanuel Alie Mansaray🇸🇱 @EAMansaray]

Since you went to school or Graduated with a degree,
What advice would you give those sitting in the same classroom where you used to sit?"
It can be any advice!

[Emmanuel Alie Mansaray🇸🇱 @EAMansaray]

Unless it's urgent, don't go back home until you succeed. No matter the struggle, keep the consistency and grind until your light shines, They aren't waiting for you, they are waiting for your success.

[Emmanuel Alie Mansaray🇸🇱 @EAMansaray]

When you finish school, you will understand why people work in retail stores, sell vegetables and fruits, sell cosmetics, wash cars and drive Taxi.
Nothing will humble you like life after
University.😭😭

[Emmanuel Alie Mansaray🇸🇱 @EAMansaray]

Officially opening ceremony of the Climate Tech Innovators and Leaders Program in Accra Ghana 🇬🇭

[Emmanuel Alie Mansaray🇸🇱 @EAMansaray]

I am honored and thrilled to accept this opportunity from the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) to contribute to such a prestigious event.

[Emmanuel Alie Mansaray🇸🇱 @EAMansaray]

@theafricadream ❤️❤️🇸🇱🇸🇱

[The African Dream @africandreamsl]

Meet Emmanuel Alieu Mansaray: The Sierra Leonean Innovator Who Built Sierra Leone’s First Solar-Powered Car Made Out of Trash

Emmanuel Alieu Mansaray is a 26-year-old self-taught Sierra Leonean innovator and engineer who built the first-ever locally made solar-powered car in Sierra Leone.

He attained his high school certificate from the Methodist Boys High School, Freetown. It all started in 2018 when he built the first locally made solar-powered tricycle in Sierra.

Fast forward to 2020, Emmanuel Alieu Mansaray started to build the first ‘solar-powered’ car in his country, Sierra Leone.

His passion for the environment and to solve social issues affecting his community led him to invent the solar-powered car. He called the car ‘The imagination Solar Car’.

The ‘Imagination Solar Car’ is Sierra Leone’s first locally made solar-powered car. It’s an Eco-friendly car, which does not use any fossil fuel to power it. The body of the car is built with bamboo (cane stick) which is a local material throughout.

This car can cover a distance of 15km per hour on a tarred road. It can also cover more than 90 kilometres per day when there’s intensive sunlight, and more than that sometimes.

The ‘Imagination Solar Car’ has a large solar panel at the top of it which powers the engine and also acts as its canopy.

The car has a self-made engine which is different from all other cars with three gears attached to it for both back and front movement.

It has a left and right traffic light, a horn, four headlights, and an accurate brake system. It has two doors and two mirrors attached to its left and right flanks.

Furthermore, this solar-powered car is pollution-free, and it operates by converting sunlight into electrical energy using photovoltaic cells. Therefore, it does not produce harmful or hazardous emissions.

So, since solar energy is a renewable source, the sunlight that is used to power this car today will still be there tomorrow, and will continue to shine for years to come and so does the ‘Imagination Solar Car’.

The inspiration behind Emmanuel’s innovation is to solve social problems in his community in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.

Due to the high risk of contracting respiratory diseases that are caused by the inhaling of hazardous fumes emitted by vehicles using fuel, Emmanuel thought of an idea to salvage the problem by building a vehicle that doesn’t emit carbon monoxide. So he started to build the ‘Imagination Solar Car’, as he called it.

Emmanuel’s solar-powered car is pollution-free, and it operates by converting sunlight into electrical energy using photovoltaic cells, which makes it eco-friendly since it doesn’t produce harmful emissions.

“So, since solar energy is a renewable source, the sunlight that is used to power this car today will still be there tomorrow, and will continue to shine for years to come and so does the ‘Imagination Solar Car’,” said Emmanuel.

As a Geology student of Fourah Bay College, one would think Emmanuel only knows about rocks but that’s not it. Since his childhood days, he has been that child who always goes out there to pick up trash cans which he used to make tiny cars.

As a kid, he also used to collect trash batteries from the dust bin and convert them to energy providers to supply the electricity in his home.

Emmanuel’s dream and aspiration are to help his people and the country as a whole and to have a successful career in renewable energy.

“I want to fly the Sierra Leone flag higher above all other flags. I want to enable a safer environment for my people wherein they will use renewable energy that can be beneficial for them, especially when it comes to health. I want to make everything seems easier for people and make the environment safe” - Emmanuel Alieu Mansaray

Read more about Emmanuel here: https://t.co/AlElGDs2cR

#SaloneTwitter #SierraLeone #TheAfricanDream #Changingthenarrative

[UNDP Accelerator Labs @UNDPAccLabs]

Great to see @fortomorrow2030 documentary #grassroots innovator @AlieEmmanuel, who built Sierra Leone's first locally made solar car entirely from waste, participate at @PrincetonCITP Tech in Conversation series panel yesterday!

📺Meet Emmanuel here👇
https://t.co/DtqmRDiLrH

[Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy @PrincetonCITP]

TOMORROW (5/16)at 4:30 p.m., join @Princetoncitp and @ruha9’s Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab for “Critical Technology Ecologies and the Future of Repair” with @climateincolour, @Grace_Akese, @AlieEmmanuel, @FixitClinic. @Kenia_Hale will moderate: https://t.co/QGEgNFQNyE

[Emmanuel Alie Mansaray🇸🇱 @EAMansaray]

Critical Technology Ecologies and the Future of Repair" through @PrincetonCITP and @ruha9's Just Data Lab 5/16 @ 4:30 pm!
Feat. @AlieEmmanuel @Grace_Akese @FixitClinic and @climateincolour

Examining reparative tech + EJ futures!

Register here! https://t.co/8r6zDBoCcw…

[Kenia Hale @Kenia_Hale]

Hosting "Critical Technology Ecologies and the Future of Repair" through @PrincetonCITP and @ruha9's Just Data Lab 5/16 @ 4:30 pm!
Feat. @AlieEmmanuel @Grace_Akese @FixitClinic and @climateincolour

Examining reparative tech + EJ futures!

Register here! https://t.co/RWl69arHpK

[James Maddison @Madders10]

AWB is ridiculously good at 1 v 1 defending. Probably the best in the world bar none. So many wingers run out of ideas when playing directly against him.

[UNDP Sierra Leone @UNDPSierraLeone]

#FinancialInclusion is a pathway to economic & social empowerment for women. Through @UNDPSierraLeone's human security interventions, over 1000 women have increased their incomes from the #VSLAs. #VSLA’s provide women with low interest loans for their businesses.

#UNDPSalone

[UN Development @UNDP]

Excited to announce that our #forTomorrow initiative w/ @UNDPAccLabs and @Hyundai_Global won the @sxsw Innovation Awards in the Media category which recognizes outstanding projects, products and creative endeavors that advance innovation and improve comms. https://t.co/7htNZmUp84

[Hyundai Motor Group @HMGnewsroom]

#Hyundai and #UNDP’s ‘for Tomorrow’ Project Selected as Finalist for 2023 SXSW Innovation Awards ▶ https://t.co/DdAhEcGQlf

#forTomorrow #SouthbySouthwest #SXSW #Awards #Sustainability #Innovation

[for Tomorrow @fortomorrow2030]

Tonight, we bring home the fruit of all our collective efforts. Thank you @sxsw for recognizing and honouring the power of grassroots innovators all around the world. We also thank everyone who has supported us. This is one goes to you. 🌱@UNDPAccLabs @Hyundai_Global

[UNDP Accelerator Labs @UNDPAccLabs]

📢We're thrilled to announce @UNDPAccLabs + @Hyundai_Global's #ForTomorrow wins @sxsw Innovation Awards in the media category

We thank everyone who's been with us in celebrating & connecting grassroots innovators worldwide🙌

Join our movement👇
https://t.co/HhZQroPIoB

[Emmanuel Alie Mansaray🇸🇱 @EAMansaray]

Imagination is Everything!!