Share Africa’s first high-speed urban train, the Gautrain was unveiled recently in time for South Africa’s World Cup. The train is capable of doing a 100mph/160km.h and is expected to help relieve pressure on other modes of transportation in South Africa. The Gautrain cost $3 bn (24 bn rand). Construction including tracks and tunnels began in September »
Share Africa’s linguistic traditions vary enormously across all 53 countries. The languages spoken on the continent provide priceless insight into the cultural norms, history and literature of its people. For those who may have been born and raised in the African diaspora, the importance of their mother tongue is invaluable, in preserving their heritage. CrossDialect (a company »
Share Potashius Nairobus laments on the emergence of cyber journalism, citizen journalism and the death of “story telling” which Potashius believes was the original pure form of blogging devoid of a “nascent but highly influential cabal of digitised African Consultants”. Potash goes on to make his point more forcefully “A bad situation, for the storytellers, turned horrible »
Share Is something happening on the African tech scene? In East Africa, Kenya’s Ihub is gearing itself to provide a platform for technologists, investors and tech companies in the hope of fostering collaborations. In West Africa, Ghana has recently announced a 2 billion dollar project to develop Ghana’s first technology park, Ghana Cyber City to “bring »
Share “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power!I hope we don’t have to wait ’til oil and coal run out before we tackle that” Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Well the great inventor’s dream may have to wait a little longer but he’d be glad to know plans have been put »
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Ever wondered how a ball game first played in ancient China as early as 2500 BC, a game used by the ancient Egyptians at religious ceremonies and established in England in the 19th century can contribute to generating energy? Well, thanks to four Harvard graduates with experience in global health and working in developing countries, a »
Share An excellent exposé by Ethan Zuckerman on how our presumably private purchases could end up being “boadcasted” on Face Book (FB). »
“Our expectation is that our transactions at one site are neither to be made known to other sites nor made known to our friends. We may well want to let our friends know what we’ve »
Share Poetry has been around for centuries. What is new and beginning to have an impact is the use of electronic media in various digital forms such as CDs, DVDs and online databases as a means of getting poetry across to the consumer. Lemn Sisssay, a poet, artist and author has taken the world of electronic poetry »
Share This is our last in the series on African Photo sharing sites. We would like to express our gratitude to the people behind Mokocharlie. We appreciate the time and effort you have taken to share your project, hopes and ambitions with our readers. One of (we think) most interesting and fun features on the site is »
Share In the third part of our series on African Photo-sharing Sites, we find out how Mokocharlie plans to monetise thier collection of photos. Also, finding suitable African themed stock images is tantamount to looking for needles in a haystack. We wondered if Mokocharlie could be the genesis in providing a solution to this problem. MyWeku: As »
