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The Nigerian woman who could become Africa's most innovative engineer

“I knew from a young age that I will not be able to work in a regimented office setting,”

Olisa Eloka
Mar 30, 2019
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Elizabeth Kperrun 
(Photograph by James Oatway, provided to The Question Marker)
Elizabeth Kperrun  (Photograph by James Oatway, provided to The Question Marker)

The 2019 shortlist for the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation could have passed as any other shortlist, except that this time there was a peculiar uniqueness to it. The added glow to the list of the £25,000 contenders wasn’t the presence of 4 Nigerians out of the 16 sho…

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