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A smile of success, Zack Salawe Mwale with his nsima cooker when it was almost complete

Malawi man invents Nsima cooker similar to rice cookerFebruary 27, 2015 Lilongwe News Agency Columns, Featured 133 comments

A young man in Lilongwe, Malawis capital city, has invented a Nsima cooking machine after three years of experimenting and testing tillfinally the machine is now complete and cooking Nsima by itself without the aid of a human being from start to finish, after it has cooked,someone needs simply to take out the pot from the machine same as a rice cooker.

Zack Salawe Mwale 26, spent only twoyears at Poly, the University of Malawi, asan Electrical and Electronics student, butdropped himself out in 2012 because hewas not learning anything new that hedidnt already know and thought that hewas just wasting his time in class whichcould be utilized to continue traininghimself in new adventures with hisexperiments at more challenging projectsin his laboratory than the easy stuff at Poly.

Speaking in an exclusive interview toLilongwe News Agency (LINA), Zack SalaweMwale said he planned, on his own,challenging projects one of which was toinvent a nsima cooker because there wasnone in the whole world, and that is howhe began experimenting how he couldcome up with a machine that is able tocook nsima by itself.

Zacks cooking machine is so advanced thatit is not only able to cook nsima by itselfwithin 36 minutes but also can cookthrough remote control many miles awayusing a pin set on your mobile phone.What you need to do before leaving homeis to fill the cooker water tank and the flourport with water and flour respectively.

As a person is about to knock off fromoffice, he/she can command the machineto start cooking nsima and in 36 minutesas you reach home nsima will be ready.You simply open the cooker door, removethe pot and share out the nsima, Zackexplains.

He continues: I wanted to createsomething I believed there was none in theworld but also because nsima is the mainfood in Malawi and many other Africancountries, and yet many people find itdifficult to prepare.

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Zack said the machine has taken him threeyears to develop and has consumed alarge sum of money because ofexperimenting and in the process he spentmore time and more money on gadgetswhich could blow up duringexperimentation.

Zack confesses that, taking all in all, he hasspent around MK15 million on the projectfunded by himself, his mother and MrVictor Mfaumi, a Malawian living in theUnited Kingdom.

All the money I sourced from my pieceworks as a technician was spent on theproject buying components forexperimenting such as transistors,transformers, ICs, capacitors and manymore. My mother provided me with the labhouse where I work, she also contributedmoney, and Mr Victor Mfaumi from the UKalways sent me some of the components of the machine I needed, he disclosed.

He said the cooker is a modern invention using very minimal power, less than any cooker. He also claims that the three years spentdeveloping it was to make sure that it is efficient, effective and durable.

The cooker cannot easily breakdown, through several trials and experiments; I have made sure that it is effective, efficient and durable, heemphasized.

He, however, revealed that there is still room for improvement of certain parts such as the cooker part that stirs the nsima (mthiko). He saidhe wants to produce a better one at Lilongwe Technical College.

Zack is appealing to the Government of Malawi and the corporate world that he has done his part, making the invention, but now it is thegovernment and the corporate world that must come in to assist him to move a step forward.

He said he needs safeguarding of rights for his invention, he needs partnership with Malawi companies such as Airtel, TNM, Presscorporation, to mention just a few, including outside companies that produce certain parts of the cooker, all this need money, logisticalarrangements and other requirements which he said he cannot afford alone.

Zack Salawe Mwale said he has had other inventions as well in the past such as the Home Saver he developed when he was about 14 yearsold before he went to college. The machine was mainly for home safety. It reminded the owner that the windows or doors are not lockedwhen it was night, and could send a message to the house owner if a door or window is being banged in case of house breaking. It hadmany more functions such as remote door opening and closing.

He said his inventions come from Gods given talent where he plans challenges for himself, gets electrical and electronics gadgets forexperimenting on the plan, and after trials it develops into an invention in the end. LINA

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nabanda says:February 28, 2015 at 5:38 am

Nde amalawi amenewo kubela basi thats not invention bru, Joshua Ngalande is an inventor

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losco says:February 28, 2015 at 6:12 am

Zilipati kodi za a Ngalandewo?

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nabanda says:February 28, 2015 at 5:25 am

Joshua Ngalande ndi deal abwana.

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opportunist says:February 28, 2015 at 5:17 am

Osati enanu Mukamaliza ku Poly mumaziwa inu ndikuthimisa magetsi ku ESCOM basi

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Benjamin says:February 28, 2015 at 5:03 am

Good work but you shouldnt have dropped from the varsity,you need to have papers in order for you to be taken serious

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Kweni PK says:February 28, 2015 at 5:03 am

Will you marry me?

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Mnngulu says:February 28, 2015 at 4:58 am

Trade and Industry and Malawi bureau of standards help this man patent his product here in Malawi. Support him to manufacture markethis patent locally if possible. he will make money and the government will make money on taxes and imports.

Mr. Mwale do not be fouled by those calling you to go back to college. Jesus did not but He used his intuition to become God, Einstein wasweeded and dropped out of college but he is the most celebrated scientist of our time. Most of the investors never went to college. Mr.Mwale you were not weeded and you did go to college and opted out. My advise please concentrate on what you know best and inventmore machines. Academics will spoil you. To much theories.

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Goba says:February 28, 2015 at 4:43 am

a similar cooker was invented about 7-8years ago by one Ngalande who was also doing electrical engineering by then only that thisNgalande did not drop out. He finished his degree and did presentations on several forums on his invention

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vesco says:February 28, 2015 at 3:02 am

big big up for yuuuuuuuuu

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galanta says:February 28, 2015 at 12:40 am

regardless of yu being a genius, yu required formal education.and yu werent supposed to drop out of the UNIMA,POLY. una foila2pamenepothis is Malawi nt America where yu imitate the lives of Bill Gates, Mark Zukerberg, Steven Ford.noooooo go bak to xul.

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