The sixth edition of LagosPhoto Festival Designing Futures positions the relationships between African design, the design of Africa and our understanding of how we may design Africa, as the platform to discuss our past, present and future intentions. With history, circumstance and fantasy as significant pointers of the lens-based projects exhibited, Designing Futures highlights crucial…
Toys 4 CHISTRE is an international campaign to find toy donations for the orphaned children of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Mgbala Agwa, Nigeria.
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Faculti is a digital educational platform for research news and information. Science communication encompasses a.o. poster presentations, paper submissions to journals, research briefs on your institutional website and potentially also video interviews. The video format gives you the opportunity of talking about your research to a broad audience, to colleagues internationally, to the public,…
ONLINE DOCUMENTARY: AFRICAN VOICES AGAINST CORRUPTION Filed under – Transparency International Discover the stories of ordinary citizens taking up the fight against corruption and the staff in our Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres who support them in our new online documentary, African Voices Against Corruption. Corruption has many names and takes many different forms. Depending…
Africa’s computer gaming sector is still tiny but it is beginning to grow. Until recently, it has had almost no public profile. This is about to change in West Africa with a new event in Lagos called West African Gaming Expo 2014 (WAGE 2014). Russell Southwood spoke to the man behind the event Adedoyin Ogundoyin…
The story of Marhaw is steeped in culture and African symbolism and is a registered company in Ghana and the UK. It is a Ghanaian owned & run company that operates in various parts of Africa. Our vision is to add value to the vibrant and precious Ghanaian Kente transforming it into new and innovative…
– sponsored by MTN and Microsoft. First of four buses in 2014 tackling the current Ebola crisis starts in Lagos Experts on the Venture Buses to develop e-health solutions tackling Ebola World leading ICT and pharma companies support with funding & hardware Premium sponsor MTN sends CEO selected company representative Microsoft to reward most innovative AMPION…
by Elizabeth Stephens Ici L’Afrique, or Here is Africa, is an exposition currently taking place in Geneva, Switzerland. The exhibit features 24 African artists from 17 different countries showcasing over 70 works that answer essential questions about Africa, and tackle contemporary challenges facing the continent. Some of these questions include: the history of slavery, immigration,…
An essay by Enuma Okoro When I was 7 years old my father bought me a Bag of Laughs. It was the early 1980s and, as with most every school morning in Lagos, Nigeria, we were stuck in traffic. My father was at the wheel, listening to Bob Marley on the eight-track. I sat in…
by Efeturi P. Odele Africa is the world’s second-largest continent in landmass and also the second most populous continent with about 1.033 billion people. Presently, the economy of most African countries are growing faster than the economies of most developed countries because most developed countries are near their economic zenith (convergence in economics). Reasons for…
African Perspectives 