Kenya | Design Indaba

No Waste Challenge winner, OmiFlo makes a splash in the sustainable design industry

The climate-conscious company turns polluted water pure >
No Waste Challenge winner, Leafylife, creates diesel from dirty diapers

Leafylife’s fuel production lowers carbon dioxide emissions by 76% >
Creative Cures

From period poverty to the perfect portrait. >
From pineapple waste to period products

Nyungu Afrika simultaneously combats period poverty and pollution >
No Waste Challenge winners announced!

Sixteen global waste-busters awarded top honours by What Design Can Do. >
Exploring Woven Cosmos, Kenyan biophilia, music’s mavericks, & our newest multimedia-ists

New worlds >
Kéré Architecture’s Startup Lions Campus is set to inspire future achievers

Former #DI Speaker Diébédo Francis Kéré designs a new nature-inspired landmark in Kenya. >
Kenyan photographer Thandiwe Muriu’s Parisian show stands out by blending in

Thandiwe Muriu’s CAMO series celebrates being African by playing with colour and culture. >
The nine-year-old Kenyan is rightly causing a stir with his sanitary smarts

The hands-free washing station was created after Stephen Wamukota saw many people in his community struggle to wash their hands. >
Sunny Dolat

Creative Director

Fashion curator, cultural producer and creative director >
Sunny Dolat is opening up the space for a more nuanced discussion on African fashion

The creative director and cultural producer will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020. >
Sunny Dolat

Art Director • Creative Director

Fashion curator, cultural producer and creative director. >
Kenyan fashion designer Anyango Mpinga on how she uses fashion to inspire change

Mpinga tells us how soap operas, dragonflies and sound waves all came together to create the Anyango Mpinga label. >
Not African Enough explores the diversity of Kenya's fashion landscape

The Nest Collective’s second book challenges narrow perceptions of African fashion. >
How digital technologies can help Africa’s smallholder farmers

The various applications of digital tech in agriculture could produce unprecedented results on the continent. >
Designing kangas that celebrate queer love

Artist and LGBTQ+ activist Kawira Mwirichia is reclaiming the culturally significant garment to celebrate queer love in Kenya. >
Using empathic design to save the lives of pregnant women

How Caroline Smeenk and Dahabo Adi Galgallo are saving the lives of mothers and their unborn children, on opposite sides of the world. >
Applications for African Crossroads 2019 are now open!

Hivos is looking for content proposals from artists, entrepreneurs, chefs, designers, researchers, to imagine the future of African cities. >
Sunny Dolat wants to set a new standard for African fashion

A small island off the coast of West Africa is about to host a truly representative African arts and fashion festival. >
Drawing water out of thin air

How Majik Water tapped a water source that is all around us. >
Kenyan jeweller uses natural minerals to tell her story

Ami Doshi Shah’s sculptural jewellery pieces tell the story both of Kenya’s intricate past and the country's captivating natural beauty. >
Roy Allela invents tech that translates sign language into audio

The Kenyan inventor was inspired by his deaf niece to create Sign-IO, a glove that interprets sign language into speech. >
The whimsical illustrations of Monica Obaga

“I would say my aesthetic has always been whimsical because all my favourite media as a child were musicals, cartoons, books, comics and fashion.” >
Wanuri Kahiu on using film to talk about Africans as joyful and radiant

“I realised that there is more images and more stories of joy than there is of remorse,” Kahiu says of her search for African stories of joy. >

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