Sanoussi Diakité

Fonio, the nutritious West African cereal that was the focus of Senegalese Laureate Sanoussi Diakité’s 1996 Rolex Award project, is likely to gain a major boost in the next few years. The fonio-husking machine, which Diakité, an engineer and teacher, invented in the early 1990s, has...

Sanoussi Diakité’s fonio-husking machine, invented in the 1990s, is increasingly helping prevent a delicious, West African cereal from disappearing. Thirteen years after he was chosen as a Laureate, Diakité reports that his invention is meeting with greater and greater success. Today 50 machines are in operation in eight...