The Future City of Africa

06/02/2021

This is exactly what Africa needs. The audience of this show will not wait for the West to come up with the solutions. They’ll be itching to provide them themselves!

African TV execs say it's unlike any show for kids that's been produced and broadcast on the continent — especially with its focus on women presenters and scientists.

19/12/2020

High tech against corruption!

Sierra Leone has been discreetly using high tech pioneered by Moinina David Sengeh's Directorate for Science and Technology to fight corruption. The West African nation's fight against graft has started to bear fruit as millions of dollars have been recovered and reused by President free education project. Can Sierra Leone be a model for the rest of Africa?

Read more here: https://p.dw.com/p/3mXTb

28/10/2020

Who tells the story of Africa? What perspective frames the reputation and perception of the continent? It should be the African perspective that dominates the narrative but still it is dominated by the western media. Here are a few examples of Africans who are taking control of their own narrative.

MA student Sharon Matthews gives us her ultimate list of individuals and organisations celebrating Africa and African culture.

19/10/2020

The next big thing from Africa: Animation!
Will this become as big as Manga?

Getting original African content like this out to the big networks like Netflix might be instrumental in changing the perception of Africa.

Have you seen any African cartoons?

While the film sector struggles to produce new content, the global demand for animation has soared.

16/10/2020

Fantastic achievement for Paystack in Nigeria. Stripe sees the enormous potential for growth in Africa and the value of African startups!

When Stripe announced earlier this year that it had picked up another $600 million in funding, it said one big reason for the funding was to expand its API-based payments services into more geographies. Today the company is coming good on that plan in the form of some M&A. Stripe is acquiring P…

31/05/2020

History has been made. An African guy has become the first private individual to build a commercial space company and send astronauts to space. Think about that!

The next step for the two astronauts on board is to dock with the ISS. It is not an easy task, demands precision and nerves of steel. Do you think you could do it? You can try it out for yourself in this SpaceX simulator:

https://iss-sim.spacex.com/

This simulator will familiarize you with the controls of the actual interface used by NASA Astronauts to manually pilot the SpaceX Dragon 2 vehicle to the International Space Station.

27/05/2020

Is the city of the future based on transparancy?

Located in a forest on the mountains of Almaty in Kazakhstan, architect Aibek Almasov of A.Masow Design Studio has designed a concept for a modern

01/04/2020

An important message from the first Covid-19 patient in Kenya who has now healed and been discharged.

28/03/2020

Everybody be alert! Wash your hands, keep a distance and avoid gatherings. We are sharing this message from Bobi Wine & Nubian Li in Uganda. What are the best music videos or information videos you have seen regarding the Coronavirus? Please share them here in the comments.

Stay safe!

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25/03/2020

What can we do to prepare for the Coronavirus in Africa?

With test kits, masks and ventilators being in high demand and short supply these days it is very important for health authorities to look into unorthodox ways to meet that demand.

Here is a guideline on how to create masks and 3D print the valve to connect them to the ventilator.

Testing is very important to maintain an overview of the spread but testing kits are very hard to come by. In some cases it has been possible to use test kits originally intended for other purposes, even from fish farming. The quality isn’t the same but now is the time to do the research to see what resources can be used.

If you have more ideas please share them belove. Please remember that every solution has to be tried and tested by professional medical personnel before being applied to a patient. Using the wrong equipment, applying it in the wrong way or going against the advice of medical professionals can be fatal and put others at risk.

Good luck and stay safe!

EASY COVID 19 Versione italiana Emergency mask for hospital ventilators In recent days we have been contacted by a former head physician of

12/03/2020

Newton Partners and Imperial set up a new 20M USD fund for disruptive startups in Africa! An exciting opportunity for startups in the logistics industry.

The company partners Vinny Lingham and Llew Claasen’s Newtown Partners to launch a corporate venture capital fund.

08/03/2020

The greening of cities is a powerful way to fight flooding and heat pockets in cities. Is your city working on greening and tree planting? We would love to hear examples of what is being done or what you think would be a good idea to do.

Barcelona prepares for a major green makeover.

29/02/2020

Continuing our account of black explorers, did you know that the first man to reach the North Pole was not Robert Peary, but an African American man called Matthew Henson? While part of Peary’s expedition, the first group to arrive consisted of one black man, four inuit and not a single white man, with Henson leading the group.

He was hired by Robert Peary at the age of 21 because already then he had travelled more of the World than many of Peary’s fellow members of the National Geographic Society. Henson still has descendants in the Arctic.

https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/02/28/the-first-man-to-reach-the-north-pole-was-an-african-american-desk-clerk-the-world-forgot/

Matthew Henson in his Arctic fur / Wikipedia "I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world," is not something many people can boast, especially if they lead perfectly normal lives, say, working a desk job in the city in relative anonymity. But for many years, that was the truth of Matthe

16/02/2020

Where there is will, there is a way. Our hat off for this amazing, dedicated teacher in Ghana.

A teacher who resorted to using a chalkboard in his computer studies class – because his school in Ghana had no working PCs – has been given a star treatment at an international educators’ conference hosted by Microsoft in Singapore. Richard Appiah Akoto, 33, became a social media sensation af...

15/02/2020

The European adventurer Sir Milton has made a great discovery during his exploration. A river he has named River Gulu that runs through the middle of London.

We look forward to further disvories on the European continent as African explorers fare deeper into the cold, grey and rainy continent.

News,Gossip,Sports and Entertainment from Nairobi.

18/12/2019

This is remarkable innovation in the field of solar energy and energy storage. An opportunity for an African University to partner up for testing and research?

No matter how abundant or renewable, solar power has a thorn in its side. There is still no cheap and efficient long-term storage for the energy that it generates.

09/12/2019

It doesn’t always have to cost a fortune. But it does need investment and a good strategy. While reaching the same status as Estonia may be a stretch even for rich European countries Estonia can most certainly be an inspiration.

How could your country improve education?

30/11/2019

Are we way off in our use of GDP to measure growth in Africa? Are we ignoring depletion of natural resources, if the poor are being left out and the state of democracy? What should we be measuring when we measure the progress and prosperity of Africa?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90435788/a-nobel-winning-economist-says-its-time-to-kill-the-gdp

GDP is horrible for the environment and well-being.