An African Man Invented The Digital Mobile Phone Technology – Not Europeans Like You Have Been Made To Believe

Whenever we speak up and emphasize the need for Africans to return to our culture, to speak our language, and to be proud of our traditional and spiritual beliefs, as against upholding European ideas and cultures, many of our people respond ignorantly. They are quick to tell us that the same Europeans we reject their culture and religion, are the ones who created the Mobile phones we use, as well as all other technologies known to us Africans; So, for that reason, we should abandon our ways, and hold unto the white man’s ways.

But the truth is that these sets of Ndi Igbo and Africans are IGNORANT. If they focused on getting the right knowledge of our history and accomplishments as a people, they would know that the Mobile Phone Technology that the whole world uses today was invented by an African like them. His name is Jesse Eugene Russell.

He developed the world’s first digital cellular base station and holds the patent for the digital services that many companies of the world use today. Before he invented the wireless mobile phone, the phones available around the world were permanently connected to wires and mainly powered/used in cars. This was because the phones needed power to be able to transmit signals to a cell tower. In those days, the power needed to drive a cellular phone was too much to fit into a wireless movable device.

It was Russel’s ingenuity and invention that made it possible for mobile devices to transmit signals between each other and the cell phone towers.

Russel was the first African to be employed by AT&T-Bell. After spending so much money and time trying to create a digital mobile phone, the white managers of the company called him into a meeting and explained their problem to him, stating that they only make money when people are in their cars to receive calls.

He told them that it was an easy thing to accomplish – and he took the project from them and invented the technology that we all enjoy today.

Russel went ahead to invent other technologies and devices in the telecommunications industry. Some of them are: (1) A Base Station for Mobile Radio Telecommunications Systems, in 1992 (2) Wireless Communication Base Station, In 1998.

He created a company called INC NETWORKS, which focuses on 4G broadband services for various companies of the world.

So dear brainwashed Onye Igbo (African), who has been made to believe that every modern technology was invented by a white man, hope you have learned something today/

I hope you will stop asking us to throw away our ancient science, culture, and spirituality, to accept those of the Europeans as superior, while ours is inferior.

Hope you now see that they are not superior to us – that one of the most advanced and widely used technologies in the world today, which is a ‘Digital Mobile Phone’ was invented by one of us.

He could be of Igbo origin or have Igbo as part of his DNA since his ancestors were Africans who were taken into slavery in the United States. He could be from any part of Africa today. His blood, brains, and genes are part of our family and heritage from our noble ancestors.

This should show you that Africans can do better, given the right environment and opportunities. This is to show you that we are not an inferior race or people.  

This Article Was Written By Chuka Nduneseokwu, Editor-In-Chief, of Voice Of The Sun

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