Timbuktu Chronicles

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...

Foisi Broadcasting Network a vertically integrated as a broadcaster Business Intelligence consultancy - Cussins Group AFIM Software development services The New Chelsea Hotel Abuja Wajuzi Technology Solutions Chemical and Allied Products manufacturing company ...

From The Nyaruka Blog: Why the Developing World May Be Bitcoin's Biggest Customer... Bitcoin is almost always billed as a replacement for credit cards and PayPal, which is a shame because on that front I think Bitcoin mostly loses: transactions can be slow to settle, Bitcoin security makes everybody paranoid, and most...

In Make: FreeD (by Amit Zoran & Joe Paradiso from the Responsive Environments Group at the MIT Media Lab) is a handheld, digitally-controlled milling device. It is guided and monitored by a computer while still preserving the craftsperson’s freedom to sculpt and carve by hand. The computer intervenes only when the...

Aline Mayard writing in Wamda: Sahara Labs, Tarfaya, Morocco: Lately, it seems as though we often hear about a revolutionary new DIY idea like the Raspberry Pi Do-it-Yourself computer, or a successful crowdfunding campain to commercialize an affordable tool like the 3Doodler printing pen; essentially, we’ve been hearing a lot about the...

Africa is a Country speaks with culinary entrepreneur Pierre Thiam: Image courtesy of Africa is a Country Are there other African food chefs we should be looking out for on the continent and in the diaspora? In addition, when should we be expecting the next restaurant venture from you in NYC? Fortunately,...

Kariobangi highlights a Kenyan industrial cluster: Image courtesy of Kariobangi Kariobangi Light Industries...is a very interesting cluster that specializes on metalwork, woodwork and on building machinery of different kinds. You can see from the photo that Kariobangi does not look like an usual industrial area. There are numerous (concrete) buildings with small industries on...

In Milan at Afrofuture a Maker Faire Africa workshop,held by Jennifer Wolfe and Cyrus Kabiru: photos courtesy of Afrofuture ...

Engineering For Change reports on the Baobab PSU Processing Initiative: image courtesy of Penn State In Benin and elsewhere in Africa, rural villagers depend on the fruit of the giant baobab tree as a much-needed cash crop. But processing it is a chore. The baobab fruit is about the size of an...

In Venture Burn Michelle Atagana like others before her, questions the strength of the African startup space: It’s easy to get caught up in Africa’s sexy, trendy and attention-grabbing tech scene. It has the trappings of an intriguing love story, trying to make it in world that refuses to give it...

Techloy profiles Kleek: Kleek suggests a small exclusive group of friends or associates, the music service is said to be designed and built specifically for Africa, and would bring music lovers closer to their favourite artists, while also providing artists with valuable access to a wider pan-African audience. The Kleek music app...

Despite being some of the worlds largest producers of coffee, domestic consumption happens to be quite low across Africa. Why is this factoid important? Well to climb the ladder and create an Ugandan illy's or similar successful derivatives, local taste levels need to rise amongst other things. Hence the need for barista...

From Le 221: Dakar-Next is a design studio-laboratory, founded in 2010 by Bibi Seck of Birsel + Seck and Fatimata Ly. Attracted by innovation, they also believe in the possibility of adapting the traditions and "design thinking" to generate products, solutions and experiences tailored to the needs of consumers in urban...

CNN speaks with co-founder of ccHub,Bosun Tijani: ...

In the mobile health arena: Add caption MedAfrica is a Medical Services Content Platform that seeks to create health awareness among consumers from the comfort of their mobile phones. It also seeks to increase interactions and purposeful engagements between health practitioners and consumers of their services. ...

AIDG founded enterprise, Xelateco.A possible model for cottage manufacturing in Africa? Make reports: [Photo from AIDG on Flickr] XelaTeco opened its doors in Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala in the summer of 2005 after an intensive search for engineering talent at local universities and engineering schools. The highly skilled team that came together was comprised of...

From the Worldwatch folks: Photo credit: PROTA African nightshade is sometimes referred to as black nightshade or garden huckleberry. There are numerous African words for the plant, including: mnavu (Swahili), managu (Kikuyu), namaska (Luhya), and osuga (Luo). The species name Solanum nigrum is often incorrectly used for all of the Solanum species...

In education: The OLPC Academy seeks to: Support country partners by meeting their needs with highly qualified candidates Seek innovative solutions to furthering OLPC objectives Advocate OLPC's 5 core principles It will be interesting to see how partnerships can be developed between OLPC and smaller nimble organizations rather than the large institutions they have be...

Ikire Jones by Wale Oyejide: As a brand, it is not our intention to peddle mediocre goods by trussing them up in romantic platitudes and empty promises of a lavish life. We have no desire to pull our finely-woven wools over the eyes of those looking for a better way to...