Lillian Weber, who happens to be 99 years old, makes a dress for children in Africa every day, which are distributed through the Little Dresses for Africa charity organization.
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Diane Hendrix, Founder and Director of Young World Inventors, wrote in to let us know she’s raising funds to do another series of mini-documentaries on young makers who solve interesting problems with limited resources.
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A slideshow of images from the two-day Maker Faire Africa in Lagos, Nigeria.
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In Senegal, whole families of crafters find ingenious ways to use recycled materials. They utilize non-working computer parts, discarded electronics, and old soda cans to make guitars, sculptures and furniture.
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A “crowdmap” of technology hubs and hackerspaces on the African continent.
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The editors of Makeshift noticed that production, more than at any point in the last century, is occurring at the grassroots. In different cultures it goes by different names: DIY in the US, jugaad in India, jua kali in East Africa, and gambiarra in Brazil. Makeshift seeks to unify these cultures into a global identity.
Continue ReadingMaker Faire Africa is coming up next month, in Cairo, Egypt. It promises to be a three-day mashup of Africa’s most imaginative makers. And, at least two Americans will be joining them.
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