Mohammed bah abba biography books

In 2000, Mohammed Bah Abba was awarded the Rolex Award for Enterprise for his innovative Pot-in-Pot system to provide affordable, electricity free, refrigeration in arid Nigeria.

In northern Nigeria, where Mohammed is from, over 90% of the villages have no electricity.

His invention is a refrigerator than runs without electricity. Mohammed took an old local understanding of the cooling properties of evaporating water, combined it with the ancient tradition of making clay pots, and turned into a useful, world-changing innovation: a “desert refrigerator” that helps reduce food spoilage and increases income by increasing the shelf-life of farmers’ produce for sale.

Mobah Rural Horizons, producer of the pot-in‐pot products which is widely termed as the fridge for the poor is based in Kano, Nigeria.

The organization was founded in 2000 by Bah Abba. However, its main production centres are in the rural areas of Kano, Jigawa, Borno, Yobe and Katsina States, all in