Promoting Africa
Mara Group, a new tech company based in Rwanda, Africa, made history last month, by launching the first manufactured and assembled smartphones in Africa: Mara X & Mara Z. "While smartphones are assembled in other African nations (Egypt, Algeria, and South Africa all have assembly plants), according to Reuters, those companies all import the components." Mara is the first company…
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Yvan Dushime Burabyo, the 23-year-old Rwandan singer, songwriter and guitarist, better known as Yvan Buravan, won the Prix Découvertes RFI 2018, an annual competition in which artists from all over Africa participate. This year, the jury of the Prix Découvertes RFI chaired by Charlotte Dipanda, decided to reward and encourage Yvan Buravan so that his…
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Cinema releases are not lacking in September. If this month rhymes with return, it's also a time for cultural novelties. Many African and Afro-related films and documentaries are now available in theaters or on DVDs. Of course they all deserve to be seen. Some have nevertheless particularly drawn my attention. Documentary outings Wax in the…
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“I stand for taking Africa to the world, and taking the world to Africa through dance. This is important to me because I’m so proud to be African...and I think the whole world needs to know what we’re about -that we’re not just about poverty, disease and sadness that you see in the media. But…
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Rwandan student Deodate Mugenzi has developed a network prototype that will enable WhatsApp users to make internal and international calls without the internet. The 26-years-old Mugenzi is a third-year student pursuing Information and Communication Technology at Polytechnic Regional Centre in Kigali Rwanda. The idea generation began in 2017, and with his laptop and library books on…
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Rwanda has successfully provided universal eye care to all of its 12 million citizens, through a partnership between the government and the organization Vision for a Nation (VFAN). Specialist nurses in Rwanda have visited about 15,000 villages as part of a life-changing project. More than 3,000 eye care nurses based in 502 local health centres…
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https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5mhdsl_le-drone-futur-de-la-livraison-medicale-au-rwanda_news 20 minutes is the time it takes for a drone to refuel the health center in Kabgayi, some 40 kilometers south of Kigali. Regularly, the aircraft took off from his "drone -port" to deliver blood pockets to this field hospital. A reportage of "Success", the program co-produced by the group Jeune Afrique, Canal +…
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