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Malawi man invents Nsima cooker similar to rice cooker

February 27, 2015

Lilongwe News Agency

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A young man in Lilongwe, Malawis capital city, has invented a Nsima cooking machine after three years of experimenting and testing till
finally 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 two
years at Poly, the University of Malawi, as
an Electrical and Electronics student, but
dropped himself out in 2012 because he
was not learning anything new that he
didnt already know and thought that he
was just wasting his time in class which
could be utilized to continue training
himself in new adventures with his
experiments at more challenging projects
in his laboratory than the easy stuff at Poly.
Speaking in an exclusive interview to
Lilongwe News Agency (LINA), Zack Salawe
Mwale said he planned, on his own,
challenging projects one of which was to
invent a nsima cooker because there was
none in the whole world, and that is how
he began experimenting how he could
come up with a machine that is able to
cook nsima by itself.

Opening the nsima cooker

Zacks cooking machine is so advanced that

it is not only able to cook nsima by itself
within 36 minutes but also can cook
through remote control many miles away
using a pin set on your mobile phone.
What you need to do before leaving home
is to fill the cooker water tank and the flour
port with water and flour respectively.
As a person is about to knock off from
office, he/she can command the machine
to start cooking nsima and in 36 minutes
as you reach home nsima will be ready.
You simply open the cooker door, remove
the pot and share out the nsima, Zack
explains.
He continues: I wanted to create
something I believed there was none in the
world but also because nsima is the main
food in Malawi and many other African
countries, and yet many people find it

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

difficult to prepare.

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Zack said the machine has taken him three

years to develop and has consumed a
large sum of money because of
experimenting and in the process he spent
more time and more money on gadgets
which could blow up during
experimentation.
Zack confesses that, taking all in all, he has
spent around MK15 million on the project
funded by himself, his mother and Mr
Victor Mfaumi, a Malawian living in the
United Kingdom.
All the money I sourced from my piece
works as a technician was spent on the
project buying components for
experimenting such as transistors,
transformers, ICs, capacitors and many
more. My mother provided me with the lab
house where I work, she also contributed

Zack and his brother enjoying nsima cooked by his invention

money, and Mr Victor Mfaumi from the UK

always 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 spent
developing 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, he
emphasized.
He, however, revealed that there is still room for improvement of certain parts such as the cooker part that stirs the nsima (mthiko). He said
he 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 the
government 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, Press
corporation, to mention just a few, including outside companies that produce certain parts of the cooker, all this need money, logistical
arrangements 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 years
old before he went to college. The machine was mainly for home safety. It reminded the owner that the windows or doors are not locked
when 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 had
many 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 for
experimenting on the plan, and after trials it develops into an invention in the end. LINA
Nsima Cooker

Zack Salawe Mwale

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133 thoughts on Malawi man invents Nsima cooker similar to rice cooker

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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 market
his 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 was
weeded 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 invent
more 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 this
Ngalande 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 foila2
pamenepothis 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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