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Tanzanian photographer uses social media to break away from the conservative country

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

When art must conform to the law of the land, some artists find acceptance on social media. >

9 Jul 18
Durban-based artist adds vibrant artwork to a local taxi rank

Design News > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

This mural is meant to give the newly rebuilt Cartwright Taxi Rank a vivid and welcoming exterior. >

5 Jul 18
Zambian fashion entrepreneur on prints, nostalgia and the importance of finding synergy

Design Frontiers > African Design / Craft / Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Lucy Mulima started Aya Goods after years spent working in fashion, PR and media. >

5 Jul 18
Ugandan designers create a bloodless, reusable malaria test kit

Design News > African Design / Product Design

Here’s how designers in Africa are using technology to bridge the gap between people and healthcare services. >

3 Jul 18
Photo series takes a non-binary look at vulnerability

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Activism

Photographer Zara Julius explores vulnerability in the lives of gender non-conforming people of colour. >

2 Jul 18
Emerging Creatives: Where are they now?

Design News > African Design

We talk to some of the South African creatives who used the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Programme as a career launchpad. >

29 Jun 18
ChemStart: Bridging the gender gap in science education

Design News > African Design / Information Design

South African scientist Bathabile Mpofu created a mini science kit in the hopes that it will inspire students in rural areas. >

28 Jun 18
Hear stories of the real Uganda told by its own writers

Design News > African Design / Creative Economy

Creative platform This Is Uganda shares inspiring stories to undermine the negative perceptions that it is a country only suffering from poverty and HIV/AIDS. >

24 Jun 18
Sethembile Msezane on why she uses her art as resistance

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

South Africa’s history is wrought with erasure. Sethembile Msezane is reclaiming the narrative with her work. >

22 Jun 18
Ameera Conrad on the joy and 'realness' of telling the stories of unheard voices

Design News > African Design / Design Activism

Meet the writer, director, and actress making unapologetically political theatre. >

22 Jun 18
Grigri Pixel is looking for African creatives to participate in a residency in Madrid

Design News > African Design / Design Thinking

The award-winning programme brings together African and European creatives to create urban space interventions. >

21 Jun 18
Artist turns Ghana's symbol of scarcity into political art

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Activism

Serge Attukwei Clottey uses Ghana’s ever-present yellow oil gallons to make a political statement about the environment, history and consumption. >

21 Jun 18
Designer Anne Kiwia upcycles discarded cloths to create high fashion headbands

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

“We have enough clothes. The world is full of it. We need to start protecting our environment and stop being needless consumers.” >

21 Jun 18
Hermann Kamte, the young Cameroonian architect designing for smart cities

Design Frontiers > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Hermann Kamte is an award-winning architect whose design philosophy looks to the past and present to make cities for the future. >

21 Jun 18
Oluseun Onigbinde on using data and tech to foster a more transparent government

Video Interviews > African Design / Information Design

Nigerian entrepreneur Oluseun Onigbinde founded BudgIT to help the citizens of the country understand the way the government is spending money. >

19 Jun 18
Nadir Bouhmouch is filming the longest protest in Morocco’s history

Design News > African Design / Film & Animation

“The first victims of climate change, of the environmental injustice are poor people.” >

19 Jun 18
Inspired by the African Dung Beetle, this invention is cleaning up streets and providing value to its community

Design News > African Design / Design Activism

Made in Africa, the Dung Beetle Project turns single use plastic items into usable fuel. >

19 Jun 18
Heartworks: Storytelling through crafts and embroidery

Design Frontiers > African Design / Craft

Helle Vibeke Jensen and Tina Ratzer’s Heartworks workshop inspires out-of-the-box thinking. >

15 Jun 18
Aso Oke fabric travels from head to toe

Design Frontiers > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

A Nigerian designer is translating his passion for traditional Nigerian fabric into an unusual design application. >

12 Jun 18
Pay-as-you-go energy provider delivers power to off-the-grid homes

Design News > African Design / Design Activism

M-KOPA is considered the world’s leading pay-per-use solar power provider in Africa. >

12 Jun 18
Look Up is an app designed to stop New Yorkers staring at the mobile phones

Design News > African Design / Interaction Design

Socially-focussed artist, designer and 2017 Design Indaba speaker, Ekene Ijeoma, has found a way to humanise intangible data to trigger empathy and compassion. >

8 Jun 18
Not African Enough explores the diversity of Kenya's fashion landscape

Design News > African Design

The Nest Collective’s second book challenges narrow perceptions of African fashion. >

6 Jun 18
This young South African artist uses the everyday dinner plate as a canvas

Video Interviews > African Design / Craft

Duma Mtimkulu was one of 40 young exhibitors at Design Indaba 2018. Entries for 2019 are now open. >

4 Jun 18
Wura-Natasha Ogunji on reclaiming the female voice through public performance and protest

Video Interviews > African Design / Art & Photography

The performance artist’s work explores the tense relationship between women, society, space and politics in Lagos. >

1 Jun 18

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