By Kazeem Sanni

UYO, Nigeria (Reuters) -Gift Usen cannot wait to have her hand. Born 25 years ago in Akwa Ibom, southern Nigeria, she has navigated through her life with only one fully developed hand.

“I grew up to see myself with one and a half hands. And most times I feel discouraged, but I had to encourage myself because this is how I saw it. I didn’t create myself,” said Usen, a cosmetologist.

Nigeria has no precise data on how many citizens use prosthetics. But prosthetics have been inaccessible or unaffordable to a significant number of amputees and other Nigerians who lack a hand.

Immortal Cosmetic Art, a Nigerian prosthetics firm, hopes to remedy the situation with its Ubokobong Bionic Arm. The company has designed a humanoid bionic arm that works with electromyography signals

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