Timbuktu Chronicles

Hash on innovation: It’s hard to look through another set of lenses and appreciate the inventiveness that got something so far. It’s a challenge to understand the needs of a culture that you don’t share and then create a product for it. This is why so many of the platforms and...

Founded by Kwadwo Safo casting in foundry workshop ...the Great Kosa Suaye Technology Centre has embarked on a lot of technological innovativeness. Call it engineering or re-engineering, designing or redesigning, invention or re-invention, there is still enough reason to buttress this course.[sic] In the Electrical and Electronic fields: fabricated electrical equipment ...initial research was in...

Coming soon: The Creative Side Fashion Incubator is a fashion incubator opening in Lagos in 2013 and will be made up of a loose consortium of small scale fashion designers, companies and producers. The main goal is to develop a prototypical “Pop-Up Incubator” as an integral part of developing the fashion...

David Kwaku a MFA '09 participant is the founder of David Broadcast Electronics,its offerings include: ...electronic radio schematics , simulation and circuit design . In addition We offer sale of Electronics components, Radio Data System (RDS), Broadcast Antennas on reasonable prices and sell custom made Digital FM/TV Transmitters 0.5W up to...

A makerspace in Johannesburg: If you have a magical idea of something to make for your home or a product for your business, but don't have sufficient space or the right tools to make it happen, then tool share is just what you need. With a range of different tools, space,...

In the Guardian: Image by Nana Kofi Acquah courtesy of the Guardian At first glance, Republic, a revolution-themed bar in one of Accra's busiest nightlife districts, could be any of the Ghanaian capital's hotspots. Artsy residents, office workers and expats sit on plastic chairs in front of its wooden façade as dusk turns...

In Three to One: Chef Hiyaw Gebrayohannes doesn’t know if it was a conscious thing to start selling the food he grew up with, but he thinks it was more instinct, probably. The moment of clarity was sitting in his parents restaurant in Michigan and seeing his dad cooking, and his...

Okadabooks: ...seeks to harness the power of the mobile phone to make it easier and cheaper for Nigerians to read. At the end of the day we are powered by the belief that Nigerians do indeed read, if given the chance The goal is to: ...by-pass the traffic in the Nigerian book publishing...

Founded by James “Bim” and Nicola Adedeji, Bim's Kitchen is a: ...hand-crafted and inspired line of sauces using a variety of African ingredients/spices/seasonings from baobab and peri peri peppers to egusi (agushi) seeds, hibiscus, and alligator pepper- Betumi They describe themselves as: ...a small family business that has started producing a unique...

Frank Odongkara writes in Techpost: courtesy of bigsamphotography The question that we still barely ask and would answer with a “…well, uhm…” is that of the origin of these electronics flooding our market. Fifteen years later, we still import duplicate feature phones, radios and whichever electronics you might name from other countries. These...

From the robotics folks at Fundibots: In April 2012, Fundi Bots had its first ever Robotics Camp at Nabisunsa Girls School. To the best of our knowledge, it was also the first Robotics Camp in the country. We had over 35 students from various secondary schools, and a volunteer team of...

A Roads and Kingdoms report, Department of Coffee Co-founded by Wongama Baleni is bringing the coffee culture to the townships: Bringing Coffee to the Townships from Roads and Kingdoms on Vimeo. ...

From the folks at Adafruit, Flora - A Wearable Electronics Platform: via Fashioningtech ...

Brenden Mulligan writing in Techcrunch was asked the following question repeatedly?: “how do we make our startup community as strong as Silicon Valley?” It’s an important question, as a lot of the startups’ success in Silicon Valley can be attributed to the strong community. However, that community has been growing and maturing...

In the tradition of fellow medical innovator Oviemo Ovadje. A Panniland profile of  Awojobi Oluyombo: ACE is no ordinary hospital. There is no sign of computers or copy machines but records of the 107,000 patients, that have been seen here throughout the years, are neatly kept on paper registration cards in the archive all the...

A business model for water supply in Africa? The Economist reports: Nearly three-fourths of all diseases caused in India are due to water contaminants. Despite that, one in eight Indians still lacks access to clean drinking water. The poor now realise that paying for clean water can save much more in...

Hackerscouts: ...focuses on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) education, skill building and community engagement with the aspiration to help our children develop skills in the areas they are truly interested in, abilities that would allow them to dream big and create big. A variety of experts and mentors from...

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: speak with David Adjaye: What's amazing is that, unlike working in Europe or America at the moment, [as an architect] in Africa you can try to ascribe a new paradigm. If you get the right political agency and the right construction environment, you can make extraordinary moments...

Afferro Mining a Cameroon focused iron ore exploration and development company Sonako - therapeutic and industrial gases service company Systems integration company - Weco Pan African Capital Group an investment banking services group Coscharis a conglomerate with a focus on automobile services  ...

In Amu Dat: Online boutique Sapelle will be hosting their first ever London pop up shop this spring. Hurrah! The event will run for two weeks from the 16th till the 28th April in Victoria. I love a pop-up, it's such a great opportunity to have physical contact with collections that...