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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.
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Sunny Dolat
Creative Director
Fashion curator, cultural producer and creative director
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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.
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Sunny Dolat
Art Director
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Creative Director
Fashion curator, cultural producer and creative director.
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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.
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Not African Enough explores the diversity of Kenya's fashion landscape
The Nest Collective’s second book challenges narrow perceptions of African fashion.
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How digital technologies can help Africa’s smallholder farmers
The various applications of digital tech in agriculture could produce unprecedented results on the continent.
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Designing kangas that celebrate queer love
Artist and LGBTQ+ activist Kawira Mwirichia is reclaiming the culturally significant garment to celebrate queer love in Kenya.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Drawing water out of thin air
How Majik Water tapped a water source that is all around us.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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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Wanuri Kahiu talks Rafiki and being a reluctant activist
"I am truly a creative. I start from a creative space and not from an activist space. I am like the most reluctant activist you will ever meet."
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Patricia Kihoro
Artist
Patricia Kihoro is a singer, actress, radio presenter, improv comedian and digital content creator.
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Studio Propolis
architects
Studio Propolis is a Nairobi-based design workshop set up by husband and wife team, Naeem Biviji and Bethan Rayner.
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Design Indaba 2019 – design activism and creativity takes center stage
This year's speakers include David Droga, architects Dong Ping-Wong and Annabelle Selldorf. and filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu.
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IKEA launches ÖVERALLT collection during Design Indaba Festival
The limited-edition ÖVERALLT collection was launched on 27th February 2019 at the place where it all started – Design Indaba Festival.
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5 Innovations that broke the mould in 2018
Pioneers in their fields, these innovations were made to provide new solutions to old problems.
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Could self-examination rape kits curb sexual violence in Kenya?
A team of researchers are developing a tool much like a tampon that rape survivors can apply themselves after an attack.
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Dave Hakkens on his mission to help people fight plastic waste worldwide
The designer behind the award-winning project, Precious Plastic will be back at Design Indaba to talk about his latest work.
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