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GBARAMATU, Nigeria — When the tide rose under the rickety wooden house-on-stilts of Onitsha Joseph, a fisherwoman who lives above the twisting rivers of the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria, it brought a slick of crude oil. Before long, she saw dead fish floating on oil inches thick, and fishing — her livelihood — became impossible. The fumes were so […]
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KISUMU, Kenya — While he was finishing his master’s degree in creative writing in England two years ago, Troy Onyango remembers, he lamented with his friends about how few literary outlets were devoted to Black writers, poets and photographers like them. For Onyango, he said, it was about, “How do we just find a space where we can all congregate?” […]
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SOWETO, South Africa — Gingerly stepping over the slick, muddied floor of a supermarket in Soweto that had just been emptied and gutted by looters, the manager fretted over where neighbors would now get their food and how he would support his wife and four children. “Our livelihoods are gone,” said Tau Chikonye, the 44-year-old manager, who had worked at […]
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JOHANNESBURG — Government officials in South Africa deployed the military on Monday in an effort to quell increasingly destructive unrest that has gripped parts of the nation over the past several days and has led to several fatalities, tens of millions of dollars in damage to businesses and the shutdown of highways and transportation services. The volatility started with demonstrations […]
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NAIROBI, Kenya — At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured in a suicide explosion in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday evening, the authorities said, the second such attack to rock the city in weeks as the country enters a crucial election season. A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest near a cafe close to the well-known Juba […]
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While recent announcements about the repatriation of looted art to Africa gave reason for hope, many Africans are incensed that more isn’t being done. Revered in Western museums, such artifacts as the Benin bronzes are a vital part of African culture, and their long absence has consequences for the maintenance of identities and stories. To them, the stolen works are […]
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Westa.Solar has delivered its first 500kWp solar PPA project to Petrichor Industries in Nigeria RP Global, a leading renewable energy developer and investor, and OOLU, leader in energy access solutions in West Africa, announce the launch of Westa.Solar, a Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Solar Venture in West Africa, and the deployment of its first solar PPA project in Nigeria. The 500kWp solar […]
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Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives always have interesting stories to tell. For architecture grads, Zani Alberts and Martin Tallie, a dearth of project work, left them with free time to pursue other creative endeavours. Always enamoured with woodworking, they decided to delve deeper and see what they might be able to create. The results were so impressive that their hobby begat […]
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Adeju Thompson is a 30 year old Nigerian fashion designer, who is proud to be non-binary and to design clothing for the gender fluid. While some assert that this sort of gender bending is non-African, Thompson begs to differ, citing numerous examples in early African history. Whatever the case, their clothing line, Lagos Space Programme is a brand on the […]
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Today’s next generation of designers is combining the city’s rich craft heritage with an understanding of modern design and technology, along with an openness to reference points beyond Morocco’s borders. Now a new type of product is emerging: heirloom rugs you design yourself, handcrafted tiles in millions of configurations, haute couture caftans in boldly contemporary prints. The independent brands that […]
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