Digital Kraal Africa

22/11/2022

Fashion from trash...Welcome to Nigeria's 'Trashion' Show

A Nigerian NGO is hoping to make a difference in people's lives by showing off its delightful designs and outfits fashioned from everyday rubbish.

20/08/2022

Microsoft and Amazon are leading Big Tech’s push to relocate African developers to North America. African developers are in global demand. Today 4 out of 10 developers in Africa work for at least one company based outside of the continent.

It's a great time to be an African computer science student

04/05/2022

How non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have empowered artists in African art scenes. The global rise of NFTs has been massive, but in Africa, the ascent has been meteoric.

The global rise of NFTs has been massive, but in Africa, the ascent has been meteoric, especially in countries with burgeoning art ecosystems.

03/05/2022

75 Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies 2022: Kenya’s Wasoko, formerly Sokowatch, tops the ranking. 2nd is Kenya’s Flocash, 3rd Nigeria’s Flax, 4th is Mauritius’ AfricaWorks, and 5th Nigeria’s Zedcrest Group.
South Africa is the most represented country with 24 companies, Nigeria 2nd with 20, Kenya 3rd with 9, and Egypt 4th with 6. They have also attracted the most venture capital and where unicorns (companies valued at $1bn+) and would-be unicorns have proliferated.

From digitising informal trade to fintech and mining, our inaugural list reflects trends on the continent

24/04/2022

New generation of cancer-preventing vaccines could wipe out tumours before they form. Effectively preventing cancer, would crack 25% of the longevity question?

Shots enter early clinical trials for healthy people at high risk for disease

01/04/2022

USA/Cape Coast Castle Ghana/West Africa: In the 1700s, an enslaved West African man named Onesimus shared a novel way to stave off smallpox during the Boston epidemic. Here’s his little-told story, and how the Atlantic slave trade and Indigenous African medicine influenced early modern science. Although Onesimus’s medical experience saved countless lives during the Boston epidemic, he was omitted from medical history for centuries – as was that of the West African botanical and medical experts of Cape Coast Castle.

In the 1700s, an enslaved man named Onesimus shared a novel way to stave off smallpox during the Boston epidemic. Here’s his little-told story, and how the Atlantic slave trade and Indigenous medicine influenced early modern science.

22/02/2022

Sweden’s Norrsken Foundation is creating the largest start-up hub in East Africa. Called Norrsken House Kigali, in the Rwandan capital, it plans to host 1,000 entrepreneurs by the end of this year.

Norrsken House in Kigali, Rwanda, plans to host 1,000 entrepreneurs.

19/02/2022

Nigeria-based fintech Flutterwave reportedly becomes the highest valued African startup, raises $250 million Series D funding at a $3 billion valuation.

Flutterwave has reached exponential heights within the span of six years. AfroTech previously reported that the Nigeria-based fintech startup...

13/01/2022

Paints, brushes and a canvas are the tools typically associated with visual art, but not for Nigerian artist Osinachi. He has become one of Africa's foremost crypto-artists, using digital means (a Word processor) to both create and sell his work.

Works by Nigerian Osinachi have made him one of Africa's leading digital and crypto-artists.

08/01/2022

“The African Origin of Civilisation” show at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is as beautiful as it is controversial.

NEW YORK — Object for object, there isn’t an exhibition in town more beautiful than “The African Origin of Civilization” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nor is there one

06/01/2022

Being gay is essentially illegal in Nigeria, but that's never stopped LGBTQ people from existing.

24/12/2021

Storyland Studios to build film and TV hub in Lagos. The 100-hectare entertainment campus will be the first of its kind in the region.

Storyland Studios is set to begin planning and designing a site dedicated to the film and TV industry in Lagos, Nigeria.

17/12/2021

Nyla Hayes, the 12-year-old who's sold nearly $4M in NFTs with art collection, selected TIMEPieces' first Artist-In-Residence.

Twelve-year-old Nyla Hayes, creator of the Long Neckie Collection — a non-fungible token (NFT) collection worth about $3.4 million in digital...

30/11/2021

BEFORE and AFTER; in northern Uganda’s once war-torn Gulu, “Through Art Keep Smiling” art and cultural centre offers healing.
https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/magazines/life/the-therapeutic-art-cultural-space-in-gulu-3633694

05/11/2021

A Silicon Valley firm hatched a plan to turn blood into human eggs, and is trying to rewrite the rules of reproduction. Initially it
is initially trying to make replacement eggs for women.
In future, a cell from a man could be turned into an egg. If that were ever possible, two men could have a child that was genetically related to both

A well-connected startup company is trying to rewrite the rules of reproduction.

24/10/2021

“The Gravedigger's Wife”: Somali love story wins top film prize
at the prestigious Pan-African film festival in Burkina Faso. Written and directed by Finish-Somali director Khadar Ahmed, beat off competition at Fespaco from 16 other movies.

Somali film The Gravedigger's Wife focuses on the lengths people go to save a loved one.

21/10/2021

An art-making robot was detained on her way to show at the Pyramids because Egyptian customs officials thought she was a spy. They kept it in custody for 10 days and debated removing her eyes, which have built-in cameras. Welcome to the future.

Ai-Da, the world's first humanoid artificial intelligence robot artist, was detained for 10 days at Egyptian customs ahead of her show there.

16/10/2021

Nigerian NFT artist becomes the first to use social tokens during a Christie’s auction event. It also marked the first time an African artist displayed an NFT at Christie’s Europe.

Attendees who took a selfie and shared it on social media could earn $OSINA, which could then be spent on the artist's NFTs or other merch.