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If you don't like your story, change it
Have you resigned yourself to a defeated life? You don't have to do that, because you can change your story.Q&A with founder of Mabeo Furniture
My wish was to find a way of doing interesting work, in what I considered to be a meaningful way, with artisans.Shipping containers are springing up across the continent as working and living spaces
This has come at an opportune time for the country’s urban councils, overwhelmed by the volumes of informal traders flooding the city streets...Shipping containers are springing up across the continent as working and living spaces
A relatively new concept in Africa, the converted containers are a fraction of the price of conventional buildings.Joining the circular economy is the most obvious way forward.
otswanian architect Kagiso Seloilwe explains why sustainable architecture matters and why it is paramount to include the construction sector.Mozambique’s Museum of Fisheries looks inward (4)
Beira’s port boasts a new fish processing facility with 36-ton daily capacity, an ice factory, and a $120-million soft loan from China for renovations.Mozambique’s Museum of Fisheries looks inward (2)
When Ogojiii spoke to Rodrigues, she was diving in areas open to controlled fishing in the Quirimbas Islands National Park in the north.Mozambique’s Museum of Fisheries looks inward (3)
Primeiras e Segundas is Mozambique’s first marine sanctuary and Africa’s largest.Mozambique’s Museum of Fisheries looks inward
The street side is almost austere: whitewashed ground floor and a surprising cantilevered first storey, all glass and beams in rich, reddish wood.Create your own radio station
With not much more than bandwidth and a laptop, you can broadcast your voice and your ideas to every corner of the world.Don't mess with the new African consumer
The African media landscape is changing at a rapid pace, says Shane Solomon, SMG Lighthouse’s head of Africa.Part Two - A diverse Africa
Saklani believes the increasing size of Africa’s youthful population is powering the growth in smartphones and mobile networks.Part Three -Made in Africa
Traditional marketing wisdom pushes the concept of 'the four Ps’: price, promotion, place, and product. But modern thinking is questioning this mantra.The future of drone technology is being shaped in Africa’s skies
Today, South Africa’s Denel Dynamics have finalised development of the Seeker 400, Africa’s only home-grown hunter-killer drone.The future of drone technology is being shaped in Africa’s skies (Part 3)
The idea of using drones for news gathering came to Olewe in 2012 when he realised that journalists covering floods in Kenya at that time were putting themselves at risk by riding the flood waters.The foufoumix is efficient, smart design
Called Foufoumix, it consists of two rotor blades in an aluminium bucket with a lid, set on a bright blue, wooden stand with a retro, 1960s feel.‘Power to the people’ apps
In Nigeria, as in other parts of the globe, local developers have created applications offer users the political and cultural power of collaboration.Designers find solutions through the network
This was the premise behind Design Network Africa (DNA), a dynamic programme of ideas and experience exchange between East, West Africa and the North, an initiative of the Danish government.Africa at the holy city
Today, 14 African states have resident ambassadors to the Holy See, the sovereign institution described by the U.S. State Department as “the supreme body of government of the Catholic Church."
Designers find solutions through the network
This was the premise behind Design Network Africa (DNA), a dynamic programme of ideas and experience exchange between East, West Africa and the North, an initiative of the Danish government.
