Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 3:23pm
Lions won't come close to cattle herds when they're protected by the invention of a 13-year-old Maasai boy.
Africa stories
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 1:37pm
An African artist turns a giant pile of plastic bags into a colorful piece of installation artwork.
Monday, January 14, 2013 - 4:21pm
The Solar Ship is a solar-powered blimp that's meant to deliver medicine to rural parts of Africa. It's a nearly fuel-less solution to a big problem.
Thursday, December 27, 2012 - 6:18pm
It's a fact: technology is a mostly male industry. It's a problem that affects IT well outside of Silicon Valley. It even stretches into the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, where a group of women are fighting back with a femme-centric network of designers, programmers and other techies.
Thursday, December 20, 2012 - 7:04pm
The silver lining of being a developing continent is that you can skip entire stages of technological progress without suffering through the in-between. Africa, for example, now has more mobile subscribers than the United States or Europe, and that means big things for African economies.
Friday, January 27, 2012 - 1:33pm
Here in the U.S., we're used to thinking about solar power as one of those happy eco-friendly things that we'd all totally be using except for the fact that it's so much more expensive than fossil fuels. In the developing world, though, it's exactly the opposite: solar power is gaining ground with 1.3 billion people simply because it's the cheapest way to go.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 2:11pm
If a mere 1% of the Sahara Desert were covered in solar panels, enough energy would be generated to power the entire world. That's a lot of potential energy! So it only makes sense that just such a solar field is being built.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 2:01pm
When Paul English, the co-founder of travel search engine Kayak.com, says that he has a "big, big project" ahead of him, he's not kidding. That's because he's planning to cover all of Africa with free Wi-Fi, and he wants it...
Monday, February 15, 2010 - 1:38pm
We've got some pretty cheap phones here in the States that are pay-as-you go — sometimes referred to as burners — though you probably haven't used too many of those unless you don't have a cellular plan or you're a...
