On the verge of a technological breakthrough in the cement production process that will revolutionise the construction industry in Tanzania, Neema Stephen Kahabi, a civil engineer currently pursuing her PhD at India’s Institute of Technology Madras, is part of a trio of all-female teams led by Dr Alice Titus Bakera in establishing an industrial plant of sustainable alternative cement.
A variant of Tanzania’s mainstream cement currently being produced uses limestone, clay, and gypsum. “The world has now slightly advanced to using a type of soil that doesn’t emit carbon dioxide as much as ordinary cement does,” she elaborated.
