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Botswana's solar hearing aid goes global

Design News • 17 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Six years ago, Deaftronics created a solar-powered hearing aid battery charger from a workshop in Botswana. Now, the tech is going global. >
Burkina Faso is home to Francophone Africa’s first “fab lab”

Design News • 17 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Burkina Faso is home to OugaLab, the first fabrication lab in the French-speaking region of Africa. >
Tim Lindsay: Awarding creative excellence in advertising

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:36 • 17 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

CEO of advertising and design awards show D&AD, Tim Lindsay, explains what he thinks gives agencies that winning edge. >
Home sweet home on Mars

Design News • 17 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

French 3D-printing team Fabulous has designed a dome-like, Martian habitat for space exploration. >
Nairobi Design Week founder says the time for African design is now

Inside View • 17 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Industrial designer Adrian Jankowiak unpacks the landscape of African design from where he’s standing. >
The history of apartheid is still alive in contemporary South Africa

Design News • 17 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Startling juxtapositions show the patterns of apartheid are still alive in modern day South Africa. >
$TBWA\Angola$

In advertising you need talent and means, but it's the talent that's the magic part

Design News • 16 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

TBWA\Angola's creative director Miguel Reis on advertising in Africa, the importance of advertising festivals, and why he loathes industry trends. >
Cécile Dormeau laughs off body image issues through illustrations

Design News • 16 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

French illustrator Cécile Dormeau's illustrations and GIFs are a colourful reminder that our bodies are all different and imperfect, and that's okay. >
Nigerian students design software for visually impaired mobile users

Next Generation • 16 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Obafemi Awolowo University engineering students have built Humane – an app to make smartphone features more accessible to the blind. >
Zuby Onwuta on ThinkAndZoom, the revolutionary tech wearable

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:06:19 • 16 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Tech innovator Zuby Onwuta has designed a tech wearable that will help the visually impaired perform daily tasks. >
Chew your coffee: It’s good for your brain

Product Spotlight • 16 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Go Cubes may be the next best thing for those willing to forgo the artsy coffee-crave Instagram post. >
Edson Chagas' photographs are simple and striking

Design News • 16 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Edson Chagas, the acclaimed Angolan artist, is taking his photographs to the MoMA. >
Sandbag housing solution opens doors for home ownership in Nakuru

Design News • 16 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Design organisation, Orkistudio has created a sustainable housing alternative for Kenyan locals while providing a platform to increase family incomes. >
Stanley Hainsworth on two decades of building distinct brands

Talks • Duration: 00:37:05 • 15 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

In a talk peppered with audience laughter, Stanley Hainsworth shares his wisdom on branding the cultural icons of our time. >
Trailer: Stanley Hainsworth on two decades of building distinct brands

Trailers • Duration: 00:01:37 • 15 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

In a talk peppered with audience laughter, Stanley Hainsworth shares his wisdom on branding the cultural icons of our time. >
Primary school in Angola gets an upgrade from parents

Design News • 15 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

A dilapidated primary school in the Capalanga district, Angola received a much needed revamp from parents and community members. >
Yonamine explores African history through art

Design News • 15 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Angolan artist Yonamine creates ever-changing art in a variety of disciplines. >
Designing functional fashion for disabled bodies

Design News • 15 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Fashion design student Lucy Jones has created a guide to designing stylish clothing adapted to wheelchair-bound individuals. >
Something Borrowed: Collage artist B. D. Graft goes back to paper and glue

Next Generation • 15 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

German collage artist Brian de Graft started creating art as a pleasant distraction from his studies and it soon became his obsession. >
Heart-In-A-Box: The device set to revolutionise transplant surgery

Design Frontiers • 15 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

A medical device company has created a box capable of keeping organs alive long after removal from the body. >
Rebuilding Haiti one house at time

Design News • 15 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

New Story has funded the construction of 100 new homes for Haiti’s homeless in 100 days with its transparent, online fundraising platform. >
The "boat people" of the Rohingya refugee camps

Design News • 14 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Photojournalist Andrew Stanbridge captures emotive images of the Tuang Pyo camps in Myanmar, home of the detained Rohingya boat refugees. >
Zero-waste, ethical fashion is possible

Design News • 14 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Rachel Faller's clothing manufacturing company Tonlé succeeds on scraps and she says other businesses can do it too. >
Forget cracking art codes – Sandy Little breaks them

Design News • 14 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

The music and visual art produced by Bloemfontein-based artist and musician Sandy Little is a beautiful mess. >

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