Founded in 2013, Kiro'o Games is one of Cameroon's most successful digital startups. It has grown to become Central Africa's first major video games studio. It draws on African mythology rather than Hollywood for inspiration, as in its fantasy role-playing game "Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan." Read more about what they are doing here.
#Ghana
Why Ghana? Jeff Dean (the Google AI and Google Brain team lead), explains that it had to do with the robust network of academic institutions as well as infrastructure. Google has been a significant investor in strengthening those institutions and the infrastructure around it. Read the full article here.
Rabat is becoming an open-air art gallery, with local and international street artists leaving their mark behind. Thanks largely to support from the annual Jidar Toiles des Rue festival and Montresso Art Foundation, large-scale murals are popping up around town on national institutions and residential blocks. More information and beautiful images here.
#SouthAfrica
Gracious Dube (33) from Hout Bay (Cape Town) has always had an eye for fashion, but never did she think her handmade purses from Rooibos tea bags would one day be sold as a hot fashion accessory in Paris, the fashion capital of the world.
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| The beautiful tea bag clutch, all the way from Hout Bay in Cape Town that is all the rage in Paris! |
Original T-Bag Designs is a company that started out as a social responsibility project by founder, Jill Heyes, to help impoverished women from Imizamo Yethu (an informal settlement in Hout Bay) to earn money, by making unique arts and crafts from tea bags and boxes. [Check out their website.]
Whilst holidaying in South Africa, French fashion designer, Carine Khalil, who focuses on upcycling products, was intrigued by Dube’s eye-catching tea bag purses, which she spotted at the V&A Waterfront.
Khalil has since worked with Dube on recreating her Rooibos purse for the Paris market, which sells for €26 at Ithemba Design Ethik, a top fashion and decor boutique, owned by Khalil.
To make her fashionable purses, which are lined with silk, Dube starts off by drying and ironing about 45 to 50 Rooibos tea bags. Once done, the tea bags are varnished and either glued or carefully stitched onto the silk. Some purses are also decoratively painted to add to the unique look. [More info SA's Rooibos Council's website].
#SouthAfrica
South Africa has been named the top adventure travel destination in the world for 2018, beating popular destinations like Iceland and New Zealand in Virtuoso International Luxury Travel’s annual rankings.
Global luxury travel network Virtuoso deemed South Africa the world’s number one adventure destination for 2018.
Advisors from Virtuoso-affiliated travel agencies in North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and the Middle East were polled, drawing on their expertise and client requests to offer insight into 2018’s biggest trends. Read more here.
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