MakerFairAfrica: 1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity. The system works like this: Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which→

Although door-to-door sales has fallen on hard times in the US, it still works elsewhere. One place that is having tremendous success with the→

Forbes: As a boarding student in a Ghanaian high school, Yaw Duffour-Awuah discovered that several of his classmates who lived several hundred miles away→

Forbes: When Diana Mong’are became tired of the ever-growing trash piles in her community, she decided to do something about it. She set out→

Forbes: In 2008 the Ugandan government announced that it was considering a ban on the use of polythene plastic bags. Andrew Mupunya, only 16→

AllAfrica.com: “Capital is a key ingredient and major handicap to entrepreneurship ventures. Government’s recent downward economic growth revision has also exacerbated the situation as→

Inventors exist all over the world. Africa.com has compiled a list of inventors found within the country. Yesterday we posted part one to this→

Inventors exist all over the world. Africa.com has compiled a list of inventors found within the country. This is just the first half of→

BBC: If you must make a call to anybody’s mobile phone in Nigeria, you need to be understanding and patient – it can be→

Ethiopia has in my mind always been a country of famine. But that could be changing. What would East Africa look like if Ethopia→

People in most countries may never see it, but Africa has welcomed a new competitor for the iPad. The tablet computer was invented by→

Wired: If you want to become extremely wealthy over the next five years, and you have a basic grasp of technology, here’s a no-brainer:→

Huffington Post: Katherine Lucey is the founder of Solar Sister, a social enterprise devoted to equipping women in Africa to solve the epidemic of→

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the launch of a strategy to help bring safe, clean sanitation services to millions of poor→