What better measure of society is there than through the fiction it creates? In 1988 the Japanese animation feature film AKIRA was released to the world envisioning the near future of a 2019 neo-Tokyo. At the time, there was nothing like it, most animated films (especially those from Disney and Warner Brothers) targeted kids and [...]

A new law that, if passed, would allow the Kenyan government to determine the content, style, manner and schedule of broadcasting, has drawn fierce resistance from the local media. The Kenya Communications Amendment Bill 2008, which is now in its final stages of the legislative process in Kenya’s Parliament, proposes to set up a communications [...]

A British surgeon performed an amputation procedure he’d never attempted before with instructions he received via SMS

A British surgeon amputated the arm of a wounded teenager in Africa with help from instructions sent to him by text message. Faced with carrying out an unfamiliar operation, David Nott called his surgical colleague Meirion Thomas. [...]

South Africa’s Optimal Energy wants to bring electric cars into mass production in Africa. It’s starting with the innovative and stylish Joule…

The entire world hopes to start driving electric cars soon, and Africa, despite its reputation for poor economies, is no exception. Luckily, a South African company called Optimal Energy is working to [...]

Two Ugandan programmers, Harry Barry (22) and Seruyinda Simon (24), have built an Internet platform to enable investors to trade virtual stocks online. The platform, called Libre Exchange is set to be operational in 2009. It will allow users to start trading virtual shares from seven mock companies and will later go on to [...]