Award-winning South African Designer Thebe Magugu has collaborated with sportswear giant Adidas to create a performance line that will be worn by prominent players at the U.S Open.
Entrepreneurship
Africans rising Meet 20 finalists of the 2022 Africa’s Business Heroes competition
The top 20 finalists of Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) competition, a flagship philanthropic programme established by the Jack Ma Foundation have been announced. These African entrepreneurs were chosen from more than 21,000 applicants across all 54 African countries.
Africans rising First locally made smartphone in Ivory Coast provides accessibility in 16 languages
In the modern age, mobile phones are life partners and tools for literacy and positive socioeconomic progress. Expanding local language accessibility is essential in reducing the rural-urban differential, a gap that an entrepreneur in Ivory Coast is determined to close.
Africans rising Fundraising in Africa: David Lanre Messan is helping early-stage startups to raise funds
In Nigeria, David Lanre Messan, the founder and CEO of FirstFounders Inc is one of the most sought-after fundraisers in the tech startup ecosystem.
Africans rising A Kenyan based tech-enabled recycling company is disrupting an exploitative sector
The informal plastic recycling sector in Kenya does not fairly compensate waste pickers making it a very exploitative circular economy. Mr Green Africa is changing that by purchasing directly from their sourcing agents or waste pickers, who are some of society’s most marginalised people.
Politics and Society Cannabis policy changes in Africa are welcome. But small producers are the losers
Ensuring the participation of ordinary citizens and producers in the industry is the big challenge facing African states.
Africans rising The 2021 Ecoexistence Game Jam
Robots might overthrow humans but at least they’ll save the earth. A poignant take on humanity’s unrelenting destruction of nature and the premise behind 2021’s winning Ecoexistence Game Jam prototype.
Africans rising WASTiNNOVA a Zimbabwean medical waste startup sprinting uphill
In the face of a global economic recession a Zimbabwean medical waste management startup has shown great resilience in unprecedented times, exploiting opportunities opened up by the pandemic. WASTiNNOVA helps health institutions with safe and proper disposal of medical waste.
African identities #NairobiNiMimi Series: Shilpa Shah
As a therapist and life coach living and working in Nairobi, Shilpa Shah, has watched the city change over the last four decades. It is still, she says, one of the best cities in the world.