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

Inspired by the ancient Japanese technique of Kintsugi, the Connextyle shirt is a rehabilitation garment that helps stroke patients regain their muscle use. >

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

People see global warming as a modern phenomenon, but fashion has a long history of responding to climate change. >

Grigri Pixel invited a group a creatives from Africa and Spain to work together in Madrid to try and find out. >

Designer Nicolas-Patience Basabose talks about the past and the future of architecture in the DRC. >

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. >

Sand, a resource usually taken for granted, is being drastically overmined, resulting in the destruction of major ecosystems worldwide. >

Called Stitches From The Ocean, the Accra-based creative says he wanted to let the audience into the other side of his creative process. >

The culture and climate thought leader is working with everyone from the UN to students to tackle fashion's sustainability problem. >

Australian sculptors and married couple Gillie and Marc are creating 10 life sized sculptures celebrating the lives of monumental women. >

The artist and her collaborators, Pure and Inka Kendzia, talk to us about the interactive performance piece. >

We chat to Saeed Abu-Jabar and Mothanna Hussein about how they’re contributing to the desert city’s flourishing design scene. >

Ami Doshi Shah’s sculptural jewellery pieces tell the story both of Kenya’s intricate past and the country's captivating natural beauty. >

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

Sophie Sandberg tackles everyday harassment by taking it back to the streets. >

“It’s about creating and dialoguing about things that affect us in a way that isn't Orientalist, or beholden to the erasures and violence..." >

Imani’s book is shining a light both on modern feminists and on marginalised people who are making a difference in the world. >

“The modern furniture industry treats African furniture as something of a novelty,” says the Ethiopian-American furniture designer. >

Ghanaian entrepreneur Joelle Eyeson is experimenting with the sustainable technique that could aid her country's housing problem. >

The architectural and engineering industries need to come up with new, gentler ways to construct future projects. >

These are just some of the winners across nearly 100 different design categories. >

The structure has been shortlisted for the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. >

The South African artist brings the worlds of her psychedelic artworks to life through VR. >

Africa’s embrace of the technology could put it in a position to take a developmental detour. >