Timbuktu Chronicles

Wired reports: Image courtesy of eHealth Nigeria ...“If you’ve got a barely literate medical technician, who only knows how to use a microscope to look for Malaria and fill in a form, you can’t just put a fancy computer in front of him and expect him to use it.” The answer is to...

The BBC reports on Tiwani Contemporary a gallery co-founded by Ayo Adeyinka of Tafeta & Partners: A new gallery which has opened in London. Tiwani focuses on contemporary African art in all its forms. It's run in partnership with the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos and its first exhibition - The...

From Kenya: Image courtesy of the East African Sasini is one of the leading tea and coffee producers in Kenya. The Company is quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange (N.S.E.)Through various wholly owned subsidiary companies Sasini operations cover tea, coffee, dairy livestock, horticulture, tourism and export activities. via Securities.com ...

In Ladybrille: Luminaa, for the woman who radiates from within. The brand is a New York based label founded in 2008. Lumina’s collection of skirts and dresses has a soft architectural style with timeless beauty, modernity with a bit of an edge. In September 2010, the label made its runway Spring...

In South Africa: The M'hudi Wines project is a very personal journey for our family. The vineyard lies in a valley with deep table Mountain sandstone soils over clay. The valley floor is very hot in summer but is regularly cooled by morning mists and vigorous doses of the Cape Doctor...

CP-Africa profiles Kehinde Kamson founder of restaurant outlet chain Sweet Sensation: She started Sweet Sensation at a shed in the backyard of her family home where she set up a small bakery. She then moved to what she calls, “her first shop” which was the security/gate house at her father’s house in Ilupeju. Here...

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From Sierra Leone: The name Kopo Kopo comes from kobboh kobboh, the Krio word for money. We owe our name – and inspiration – to Sierra Leone. After spending the first part of 2010 in Freetown, we resolved to create a world-class platform to enable small and medium businesses to accept...

Boniface Mwangi is the founder of Pawa 254: ...a hub which will house, foster, and catalyze creative and community-driven projects for social change across Kenya. It is the first of its kind in Africa. PAWA254 derives its name from a combination of “power” in Swahili and 254, Kenya's country code, as a...

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In the New Agriculturist: To support smallscale farmers, REST (Relief Society of Tigray) is working to improve awareness of dairy technology and establish milk marketing and processing cooperatives throughout Tigray. So far, more than 20 milk cooperatives have been established and over 400 members are supplying around 2,500 litres of milk...

From Kitchen Butterfly: When we returned home last August, my older sister told me about strawberry season in Nigeria – January/winter to you in some parts of the world. I was convinced it was a joke. Till last Friday when I held a pack in hand... Image courtesy of Kitchen Butterfly ...the ones...

In Cameroon Demangam Victorine Luekam a soya processor speaks with Martha Chindong of Agfax: Soyabean image courtesy of Wikipedia Through a simple processing technique, Demangam Victorine Luekam converts soya milk into a meat-like product. She then fries the soya meat in oil, which it allows it to be stored for up to...

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Support this Jua Kali supporting Indiegogo project: access:energy’s approach to energy provision is quite different from solar power projects – we build our turbines from scratch at small workshops in Kenya, install them as energy hubs in rural villages and distribute power very locally. This local approach means we can deliver...

Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship winner Sigma Electric: is engaged in the design, manufacturing supply, and installation/erection and commissioning of electromechanical equipment, plant, systems and turnkey projects and also in electromechanical services and trading activities. ...

Craft Central speaks with the founder of Merbi Ceramic Designs - Ruth Babajide who also twins her work with curation.She discusses a recent collection: My Craft London work is... The Asiko Glamour Girls collection is a set of ceramic storage vessels that have a sophisticated modern appeal to the western market with a strong West African...

DRC transportation makers in the Washington Post: (Miguel Juarez - Miguel Juarez for the Washington Post) In the towns and villages of war-ravaged eastern Congo, the lumpy, lava-covered roads belong to the humble chukudu: hand-hewn wooden scooters that men ride and push across the hills, hauling towering loads of charcoal, cabbage, potatoes...

Established in 1952 Glass Blowing Industries products include pharmaceutical containers, optical windows and sandblasted trophies. ...

Africa Creative features Given Nkuna whose: Image courtesy of africacreative ...Le2 designs originates from the word gugulethu which is the middle name of the founder, given nkuna (28). lethu (le2) means 'ours' and gugu means 'pride.' given founded le2 designs in 2007...le2 designs specialises in felt making and creates colourful, quirky products...