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“I have a willingness to reach out to the marginalised in society. I believe everyone has equal potential power and everyone has unique gifts & talents.” >

How Caroline Smeenk and Dahabo Adi Galgallo are saving the lives of mothers and their unborn children, on opposite sides of the world. >

Ghanaian game developers, Enter Africa, are creating a game that focuses on the issues of safety and sanitation surrounding e-waste dumps. >

Hivos is looking for content proposals from artists, entrepreneurs, chefs, designers, researchers, to imagine the future of African cities. >

The Zimbabwean developer made a gqom and vosho app and also worked with UNHCR to predict the movements of displaced people. >

Motivated by experiences of displacement, these designers are using fashion to tell their story of war and strife and in doing so, helping refugee communities. >

Designed by architect Sir David Adjaye, the Hugh Masekela Memorial was unveiled on 1 June 2019. >

“We must be more ambitious in harnessing the power of renewable energy to meet sustainable development and climate goals” >

How Majik Water tapped a water source that is all around us. >

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

The African Design Centre graduate on how growing up in an unusual house in Soweto would later inspire his career in design. >

"By creating positive works of art using black women we can begin to deconstruct our power structure." >

Pascale Theron's work looks at breathing life into the vulnerable ostrich farming industry in Oudtshoorn, South Africa. >

He speaks on his Afro-French heritage, immigration and the global black experience. >

The Artisan Valley is a whimsical promenade with spaces for local artisans to show off their traditional fabrication processes. >

The "r.i.s.e in the city" design competition is aimed at bridging the gap between entrepreneurship and architecture. >

White Arkitekter has unveiled its design for a mother and baby unit for the Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo. >

From 2019 Design Indaba Conference speaker Lucas De Man to the iconic performer Lebo Mashile, get to know this year's hosts. >

#WorldRadioDay: Makhulu Productions' virtual reality film tells the story of how a homeless child found his voice on a Kinshasa radio show. >

The value of green technologies and systems is that they are largely decentralised or semi-decentralised. >

Graduate designer Nicole Nomsa Moyo envisions a way to empower people to build for themselves. >

Each year we select 50 up and coming South African creatives and each year they surprise and beguile us. >

One promising solution includes reducing the population of malaria mosquitoes through genetic modification to help reach the target of ending transmission. >