CATEGORY: The Makers

The future of Africa is in the hands of the citizens and only Africans will provide the most sustainable solutions to their local challenges. The transiting process to guarantee that future will be by building innovation ecosystems where innovators will thrive. Because people build nations, supporting and developing people could make a difference in the […]

Africa is a land of relentless ingenuity with revered tradition of spaces for local creativity. It is witnessing a big innovation revolution across its cities with strong civic participation in designs and making things.  Some are taking place in people’s homes while for others, it is happening in the gathering squares which they call makerspaces […]

Based on our surveys and interviews with participants, it is very evident that across regions, innovation is pervasive in Africa even though scalability has not been optimally executed. Product, process, marketing and organization method innovations are taking place in the continent and innovators are creating goods for local and international markets. There are stories of […]

In the last five years, the rise of startups especially digital startups in Africa has been unprecedented. University graduates are finishing schools without the draw to look for regular jobs but rather to start companies and pursue the path of entrepreneurship. This is certainly good for the continent and it has been made possible because […]

Towards the end of the Middle Ages, merchants created a network of trading routes that went through cities like Hamburg and Bergen along the Baltic and North seas. In that early era of globalization, all those cities thrived. Today, though ships are still being loaded for world trade, the driver of wealth and globalization has […]