Promoting Africa
O.R. Tambo International Airport near Johannesburg, has the continent’s first airport-based brewery: Airport Craft Brewers, owned by Phumelelo Marali. Phumelelo Marali is one of South Africa’s few black beer brewers, and is at the forefront of the country’s craft beer revolution. He learned to make beer in 2010, from one of South Africa’s master brewers, Lex Mitchell.…
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Backed by Nigerian incubator Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) and Google for Entrepreneurs , 14 African tech startups have been chosen to participate in PitchDrive, a five-week European tech hub tour with a specific goal of raising of EUR20 million in investments. CcHub‘s and Google for Entrepreneurs, joined forces to help 14 startups from across Africa raising €20 million…
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In Lomé, as in many West African cities, the sorting of garbage almost does not exist. Africa Global Recycling, is a Togolese company that has decided to transform waste into reusable products. For the time being, the only answer to the question of waste management is landfill or landfills. Launched by Edem d'Almeida in 2013,…
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Founded by a young Tunisian 20 years old, Yahya Bouhlel, GoMyCode is a Tunisian training school, intended for all those who wish to learn to code, and to set up their own start-up. Yahya Bouhlel started coding at age 14, and at the age of 16, got the chance to participate in an internship at…
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Sesinam Dagadu a Ghanian entrepreneur, has created a mobile application, SnooCode, that uses a computer algorithm to generate a unique code – for any location – which then serves as an address. SnooCode generates a unique code for each location thanks to the system of location of smartphones, to replace the addresses, almost nonexistent. Once the…
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Plans for the world's first dedicated humanitarian air corridor for drones in Malawi were announced in 2016. A few weeks ago the Government of Malawi and UNICEF launched the test. The corridor is the first in Africa, and one of the first globally with a focus on humanitarian and development use. Centred on Kasungu Aerodrome, in central Malawi,…
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Young Ugandan Brian Turyabagye, invented a biochemical smart jacket, called Mamaope, which detects pneumonia 3 to 4 times faster than the orthodox doctors’ detection. In Sub-Saharan Africa, pneumonia kills half a million children aged five and below every year; this accounts for half of all global deaths of children under five from pneumonia (UNICEF). Unfortunately, not enough…
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