Promoting Africa
25-year-old Kenyan Tech entrepreneur Roy Allela has invented smart hand gloves which are capable of converting sign language movements into audio speech. This invention came from the need to facilitate communication with his 6-year-old niece, who was born deaf, and who found it difficult to communicate with her family, none of whom knew sign language.…
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OAFF stands for Online African Film Festival. This initiative has been started and designed by the organisation Cinewax. From the 15th November until the 15th December, you can watch African movies online, from 15 different countries. More about the Online African Film Festival For more than 3 years, the team of Cinewax has been…
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The Ice Lions, Kenya's only hockey team, in partnership with Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee and donuts chain, got the chance to travel to the birthplace of hockey, Canada. A few years ago, a Canadian living in Nairobi took advantage of the East Africa’s only ice rink venue at the Panari Hotel in Nairobi and helped establish…
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Cinema releases are not lacking in September. If this month rhymes with return, it's also a time for cultural novelties. Many African and Afro-related films and documentaries are now available in theaters or on DVDs. Of course they all deserve to be seen. Some have nevertheless particularly drawn my attention. Documentary outings Wax in the…
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Kenyans now have the chance to watch Rafiki, the local film that has made waves around the world, but was initially banned in April by Kenya's film classification board, for "promoting lesbianism". Released in April, the Kenyan Film Classification Board banned the movie, as it was considered as promoting lesbianism, which is illegal in Kenya. "The ban didn't stopped Rafiki’s global…
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The protection of the environment is a major issue that is more and more in the spotlight. African artists and those of the diaspora, are neither silent, nor insensitive to this problem. Indeed, there is no count of the number of exhibitions and works aimed at raising awareness and mobilization. Some artists are not limited…
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The new Marathon World Record is now 2:01:39s. 33-year-old Eliud Kipchoge, widely regarded as the greatest marathon runner of the modern era, ran an official time of 2 hours 1 minutes and 39s, on Sunday during the Berlin Marathon. 2 hours 1 minutes and 39s, That's how long, or little, it took Kenyan super runner Eliud Kipchoge to cover…
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