Timbuktu Chronicles

Ebenut Foods

2012-05-30T06:00:00.000-04:00

From One.org, Paully Appea-Kubi on how she built her food processing company, Ebenut:

I started Ebenut by myself in 1996. I have a food science background and I like to experiment with food. I asked a farmer if he could supply me with pineapples and it was a good match: he needed a market for the pineapples that he did not export or were rejected, but were still fine for drying. I had one dryer and I used my own money to start Ebenut. After six months, I added two people. Eight months later, I hired five more.

Today, I have 35 people. I’m getting mangoes from 15 farmers, pineapples from 12, papayas from 2 and I have four suppliers of coconuts. The farmers are expanding and their workers are better paid because they have a reliable market for their fruits—they know there’s a constant buyer.

Image courtesy of one.org

Jollof rice is very common in Ghana—we use it at our parties, we eat it for lunch, we serve it at weddings and funerals. We use a spicy pepper, oil, tomato and local seasonings. We then mix it up with rice and cook it. I took the recipe from there, drying it in order to preserve it and make it easy to prepare. Gari foto is very much like jollof, but instead of rice we use gari, or cassava, that has been dried. It’s very convenient—you just add water and a prepared tomato sauce...[continue reading]

Atlantis Science Club

2012-05-29T06:00:00.000-04:00

In Enugu Nigeria, Ugo Eze of Automobile Laboratories launches the Atlantis Science Club "where science and creativity meet":

Solar Preservation of Vegetable Produce

2012-05-28T06:00:00.000-04:00

Over at Webaraza Farmer:

In a drive to preserve surplus produce, farmers in Kenya's Murang’a District have assembled a locally made solar dryer shaped like a polythene dome that is delivering a value added, year-round market for their produce, across both fruit and vegetables.

© Eric Kadenge of Agfax

With the help of private food marketing company, Azuri Health Ltd, the farmers are now drying their fruit and vegetable crops to make high-value products, such as thinly sliced fruits, including mangoes, that are packaged and sold as snacks that are increasingly popular among urban shoppers. Vegetables such as beans are pre-cooked and the dried product turned into a meal in just a few minutes, to make a ready food ideal for busy families with little time for cooking.

The dryer is modeled to retain as much heat as possible within the polythene dome, with temperatures in the dome getting as high as 70 degrees. The black polythene traps the heat and beneath it is a layer of sand that sees the heat retained. An extractor fan takes away the hot moisture coming from the fruits and vegetables and completes the drying process.

“There is a thermometer that regulates the temperature and allows us to project the maximum time that each produce should be dried, because the products can get over dried and burn. Close monitoring is very important,” said Tei Mukunya the Managing Director of Azuri Kenya.

More here
At Agfax listen to Tei Mukunya of Azuri further explain the process.

Dogon Shallot

2012-05-27T06:00:00.000-04:00

A Worldwatch report:

(Photo credit: Slow Food International)

In Mali, shallots have proven to be an economically beneficial cash crop, providing women in small villages a successful way to support their families. The dogon shallot is found in environmentally stressed land in the Bandiagarà escarpment between Mopti and Timbuktu...The Dogon shallots are low in saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium and high in vitamin A, vitamin B6, manganese, vitamin C, folate, and potassium. The bulbs are used for food, spice and seasoning and can be used fresh, pickled, cooked, or fried. The vitamins and minerals present in the bulb have also prompted its use in medicines. In addition to being exported as a cash crop, the Dogon people also use the shallot for a variety of purposes. Dogon Somè is a condiment used regularly in the Dogon diet and consists of the shallot and other local ingredients such as, gangadjou, oroupounnà, and pourkamà. The women transform the leaves, flowers, and fruit of each plant into usable ingredients for dogon somè.

More here
via Slow Food Foundation

Middle East and North Africa's Maker Movement

2012-05-26T06:00:00.000-04:00

In Instructables Bilal Ghahib writes about the unfolding Makerspace movement within the Middle East and North Africa:

image courtesy of Cairo Hackerspace

...There are features of hackerspaces that I see can give rise to more DIY social entrepreneurship in the middle east. They are:
1) The culture of good. Make something wonderful. Share it with others online and off. Be inspired and inspiring.
2) The availability of tools along with the docracy culture. If you want to see it, do it.
3) A supportive global and local community which has within it stories of other successes to emulate.

He expands on this theme with:

Hackerspaces in the Middle East

Now that we have described hacker culture and hackerspaces can a space like this become a the hub and home of amazing people in the Middle East? Does the west have a monopoly on awesome. Absolutely not.
Are middle easterners creative?
Heck yes!
Are they inspired to work collaboratively?
Heck yes!
Are they educated?
Heck yes!
Do they want to fix the problems they see around them?
Heck YES!
Are they powerful?
Heck YES!

Again and again I've seen example after example of the young people in the middle east (yes, those that are 30% unemployed) showcasing example after example of incredible projects. And talking to them a message I hear over and over is that they want to show the world that in Beirut, Baghdad, or Cairo things other than violence is created. They want to create positive news that goes out to the world. They want to reach out to the world and participate in sharing!

Its also about fusing the new and the old:

One incredible graduation project by Cairo Hackerspace organizer Salma Adel is one that focuses on the very heart of the maker movement and looks at the artisan as the creator of value. How do you take new design, match it with old technology and create amazing new products. I'm proud to know she's an active memeber at Cairo Hackerspace

More here

CleanStar Biofuels

2012-05-25T06:00:00.000-04:00

In the NYTimes:

...CleanStar Mozambique, a company formed by CleanStar Ventures and Novozymes, opened a biofuel plant to supply ethanol to the hundreds of thousands of households in Maputo, the Mozambican capital, that rely on charcoal for cooking.

The company is working

...with rural farmers to help them shift from slash-and-burn subsistence agriculture and charcoal production to more modern farming methods that could result in far bigger food crops and the use of cleaner fuel. The push to supplant charcoal is also a big business opportunity: the charcoal market in sub-Saharan Africa is valued at more than $10 billion.

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Kunlé Adeyemi | Architect

2012-05-24T06:00:00.000-04:00

Statement from NLÉ a design practice founded by Kunlé Adeyemi:

We believe rapidly developing cities are the home of global advancement. Like Silicon Valley is to modern technology, the developing cities are the birthplace of innovative, new sustainable solutions for today’s developing world. As thinkers, creatives and agents of change, our role is to reveal these solutions and apply them to responsibly shape physical, human and commercial structures around the world. We are starting in Africa and other developing regions.

Aisha Mustafa's Space Drive

2012-05-23T06:00:00.000-04:00

Fast Company reports:

Image courtesy of OnIslam

19-year-old Egyptian physics student Aisha Mustafa is someone we may see again in the media in the future because though young she's patented a new type of propulsion system for spacecraft that makes use of an obscure, and only recently experimentally proven, quantum physics effect.

[Image: Flickr user gordontarpley]

What Mustafa has invented is a way of tapping this quantum effect via what's known as the dynamic Casimir effect. This uses a "moving mirror" cavity, where two very reflective very flat plates are held close together, and then moved slightly to interact with the quantum particle sea...it's all horribly sophisticated, but the end result is that Mustafa's use of shaped silicon plates similar to those used in solar power cells results in a net force being delivered. A force, of course, means a push or a pull and in space this equates to a drive or engine.

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Francis Macharia | Urban Farmer

2012-05-22T06:00:00.000-04:00

City Farmer highlights urban farming in Kenya:

The Real Business of the DIY movement

2012-05-21T06:00:00.000-04:00

A CNET report:

...while everyone from individual tinkerers who have built small rockets to two people doing amazing things with Diet Coke and Mentos to paper airplane masters and crafters making magic out of felt has had a venue for the last five years to showcase their innovative projects, there's never been a forum for the growing number of people and companies that are developing the new business platforms that are merging manufacturing and making. Until now.

MaKey MaKey, a device that can turn anything into a computer interface (Credit: CNET,James Martin)

Over the last two days, several hundred of the people behind many of the most impressive businesses to emerge from the maker movement, as well as investors and those interested in the future of digital hardware came together at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) here for the inaugural Hardware Innovation Workshop. Billed as a both an "inspired conversation and curated tour of the unique culture, enabling technologies, and innovations of the maker movement" and a "hands-on showcase of compelling devices, products, and platforms that are shaping the future of manufacturing and the global economy," the event -- put on by Make magazine and Maker Faire -- was the likely beginning of a new ecosystem that will tie many of these companies and people together for years to come, and which could help impact the development of entire new industries and businesses...[continue reading]

Valentine Abe | Fish Farmer

2012-05-20T06:00:00.000-04:00

A Time profile:

Far from his native Ivory Coast, fish farm developer Valentin Abe has been improving the lives of thousands of poor villagers in Haiti by teaching them how to become commercial fish producers.

His fish-farming project has become a source of food and income for several communities in the small Caribbean nation that has been plagued by poverty, malnutrition and, more recently, the full force of a devastating 7.0 tremor.

Zeinou Abdelyamine | Industrial Chemist

2012-05-19T06:00:00.000-04:00

SciDev profiles an Innovation Prize for Africa winner:

Zeinou Abdelyamine, an industrial chemist from Algeria, received US$50,000 for his research and development of environmentally friendly, natural insecticides and rodenticides.

His products contain natural elements which attract insects and rodents, but are fatal when consumed.

"Our work proves that Africa can develop new technology and can solve her problems by herself," Zeinou told D'Jazair News.

WinSenga | Hand-Held Pregnancy Scanner

2012-05-18T06:00:00.000-04:00

Ventures Africa reports:

Second-year students at the Makerere University College of Computing and Information Technology (CIT), in Uganda, have invented a hand-held pregnancy scan-like machine called WinSenga. The machine, which consists of a funnel-like pinnard horn similar to the one used by midwives, can be used to scan a pregnant woman’s womb or detect problems such as ectopic pregnancy or abnormal foetal heart beats. “We called it WinSenga to relate to traditional birth attendants,” the team said. The students- Aaron Tushabe, Joshua Okello and Josiah Kavuma, said the project was carried out under the tutelage of Dr. Davis Musinguzi

Continuing:

The device allows the examiner to determine the age, weight, position and breathing pattern of the foetus. This will give the examiner a clue on what treatment to give. With this device, you can know how old the foetus is, whether it is underweight, its position and breathing pattern. Then decide on what precaution to take or the treatment to give,” said Tushabe. “You can access the information anytime you log on because once you are done with diagnosis, it records automatically,” he added.

“At $3,000 (sh7.3m) it is cheaper and affordable compared to the ultrasound scan.”

More here

Adaptive Construction at Anam City

2012-05-17T06:00:00.000-04:00

From Nigeria an Anam City update:

The project was an exciting collaboration between our design team and local bamboo craftsmen. Harnessing local knowledge and indigenous building techniques, and capitalizing on skills and craftsmanship particular to bamboo construction, we were able to create a very stable space-frame truss system to carry a fairly expansive roof on just four columns.

Having initially developed the design through sketches and digital models, we discovered that creating a physical model was an incredibly powerful tool for communicating the design to Dominic and Peter, two Anamite bamboo carpenters, who were able to quickly and clearly understand the necessary components and connections involved.

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Anti Malarial Nanofibre Fibres and Apparel

2012-05-16T06:00:00.000-04:00

Wired UK reports on a Nanotechnology collaboration between Frederick Ochanda & Matilda Ceesay :

...material scientist Frederick Ochanda has teamed up with designer Matilda Ceesay to create what is described as a "fashionable hooded bodysuit" embedded at the nanolevel with insecticides to ward off mosquitos that could carry malaria.

Regular mosquito nets are treated with insect repellant, which lasts about six months. The material that the bodysuit is made from, however, contained clustered crystalline compounds known as metal-organic frameworks, which allow three times more insect repellant to be loaded than a traditional net. This means that the garments could be worn throughout the day to provide protection that doesn't wear off as quickly over time.

Frederick Ochanda, a postdoctoral associate at Cornell's Department of Fibre Science and Apparel Design teamed up with Gambian fashion designer Matilda Ceesay to create the hooded bodysuit and five other outfits.

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Innovation in Africa

2012-05-15T06:00:00.000-04:00

On CNN's Marketplace Africa,Yours truly on the basis for innovation:

Continuing,what innovation means in practical terms:

African Renewable Energy Distributor

2012-05-14T06:00:00.000-04:00

Good reporting from Rwanda:

A.R.E.D was founded in 2012 as an independent power producer that offers renewable energy solutions at a micro or macro level using technology such as M.S.C.C (Mobile Solar Cell Charger) and C.S.P (Concentrated Solar Power) in East Africa. We also provide a total energy solutions for the industrial and commercial sector, small or large communities, public sector and many more…[continue reading]

Mohammed Sanad's $100K Prize Winning Multiband Antenna

2012-05-13T06:00:00.000-04:00

Scidev reports:

An Egyptian engineer who has designed a base-station antenna that can facilitate upgrades to more advanced mobile networks in developing countries has become the first winner of the Innovation Prize for Africa, which was created last year.

The antenna makes it easier for telecommunication service providers to upgrade their networks without needing to change base stations.

The winner of the US$100,000 prize, Mohammed Sanad, a professor at the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University, Egypt, said his antenna "suits developing countries, which don't have a telecommunication infrastructure".

"Conventional cellular base stations cannot be assembled and disassembled on site. They are heavy and need complicated mounting towers," Sanad told SciDev.Net. He said the new antenna suits all generations of wireless applications without any need to change or upgrade.

More here

Back Pack Farm

2012-05-12T06:00:00.000-04:00

Founded by Rachel Zedeck:

The BPF Program provides not just biological farming supplements and training but a complete 5 phase program ensuring smallholder farmers increase their harvests and improve their qualities of life. Together, it is possible to achieve sustainable linkages in food production, value chains, credible finance, income generation, social and ecological domains. -Access for smallholder farmers to affordable eco-friendly farming agri-tech inputs and training.

Backpack farm Image courtesy of Social Earth

Materially improve crop yields to semi-commercial levels of production.

Improving the income of smallholder farmers and rural communities - in particular women, who produce 80% of food reserves in East Africa.

Training in combination with a state of the art drip irrigation system, therefore improving access to and management of water in rural communities especially in arid lands.

Providing greater nutrition to populations suffering from nutritional deficits.

Developing sustainable agriculture value chains capable of supporting local, regional and international marketplaces.

Reducing time in the field to manage and water crops, this therefore improves literacy and education of women and the girl child.

Maker Updates Contd

2012-05-11T06:00:00.000-04:00

The third in our series of the rapidly quickening and blossoming maker movement: We start off with Kuweni Fab! in Kenya which was:

Image courtesy of Fablab Nairobi

...able to teach so many girls basic computer skills, PicoCricket, GoGo Board and empowering them to not be afraid to take science based subjects in school, has been very fulfilling. We got to see the girls create some very complex designs with the PicoCrickets and GoGo boards. The Pico Cricket and Gogo Board taught them about sensors, motors, computer programming, design, computer skills among many others.

In the photo news section:

...A generator propelled self-made car along Airport road, Abuja,Nigeria. Wish we could locate the chap described as Ahmed

From Entrepreneural Innovators we

"hear Limor Fried, founder of Adafruit talk about how she uses open-source hardware to collaborate with customers on designs that lead to useful electronic products."

Take a look at how iHub introduced their robotics initiative:

3 months ago, we introduced an iHub Robotics Initiative. We happy to announce that our first in-house robot is up and running. It is a DFRobotShop Rover and has an arduino based controller controlling it. The project is led by Caine Wanjau an esteemed green member at the iHub for the last one year...[more]

Image courtesy of the iHub

Hayden Parker's Backyard Chemistry videos bring a social element to chemistry sets of yore:

via Make

From Bombastic Elements in Engineering News, Robotics Research in South Africa

Massimo Banzi on “Arduino & Android and Infinite Possibilities”

In Hackaday, for those with a microscopy bent on low budgets:

Image courtesy of Hackaday

Medical-grade microscope photography for $20 might be a game changer in areas where medical services are unavailable. This particular hack uses an iPhone’s 2 megapixel camera, as well as a tiny glass marble, to magnify a sample to about 350 times its actual size. The two images seen on the left are red blood cells photographed with the improvised microscope. The main issue with this magnification method is a very thin plane of focus that is overcome with processing in software. This makes us think of the microscope hack that shined a laser through a droplet of water, to project the image on a wall. The concept was later refined to work with samples on glass slides. There are a couple of distinct advantages to using this cellphone-based method. First, the sample can be seen with its true colors. Second, you not only magnify the sample, but you have a digitized image already on a device that connects to the Internet. If you’re trying to make a medical diagnosis this can easily be sent to a qualified professional for analysis.

In the DIYbio space and over at Citizen Science "How to build a $21 gel box":

Gel Electrophoresis is a very popular technique in biology. Used for the separation of DNA, RNA and even proteins based on molecular. The Gel box is a very simple tool allowing one to run a charge through the gel to separate.

Image of Completed gel box courtesy of Cheap Ass Science

Afrinnovator had a post on "Taking a look at hardware innovation in Africa":

...we tend to focus a lot on the software side of innovation, perhaps because there’s a lot of it happening. And that’s no surprise really since getting into software has much lower initial costs and potentially larger and quicker returns on investment. hardware is a totally different ballgame. It takes quite a bit to successfully develop and market a piece of hardware. Particularly in terms of cost. But alas, innovation knows no bounderies and so over the past year or so, we have heard of innovations from different area of Africa, particularly in tablet manufacturing – Nigeria-made Encipher Inye, VMK Congo’s tablet, and most recently in Kenya, the Noris Kaboo tablet...[continue reading]

Fabbaloo brought 3d printed circuit boards to our attention:

Ponoko's CEO David ten Have believes 3D printers will soon be able to print actual working circuit boards, in a recent chat with Wired. According to ten Have, "most of the assembly tools are completely automated anyway".

Image courtesy of Fababaloo

The RepRap project's design goal is to design a machine that can actually reproduce itself, but automated production of electronics is one of the missing elements in the dream of self-reproductive machines. While the current RepRap design is fully capable of printing most of its own parts, it isn't able to reproduce a few items, such as the metal elements, motors and the electronics.

We witnessed the arrival of the physical technology focused Betaspring:

...a mentorship-driven startup accelerator program for technology and design entrepreneurs who are ready to build a product, launch a company and change the world

Adafruit pointed us to:

The OggStreamer Project which started in Feb 2010 and it is intended to become a full OpenHardware/OpenSource ready-to-manufacture product. The main propose of this device is to connect remote radio-studios (or live-events) to a main radiostation over the Internet using an IceCast2-Server. So it is basically a hardware IceCast2 Upstream-Client. Additionally the OggStreamer can host an IceCast2-Mini-Server on its own – so that a limited number of listeners can directly connect to the Livestream with just with one click on the webinterface.

via Oggstreamer images of completed device

Chris Anderson on "The Internet of Things"

Today, the new Internet of Things model is based on simple open standards: Arduino, WiFi and Web APIs. The model is open innovation and community creation. And the devices are being created by regular people with their own needs, not big companies.

Look around your house. Everything that has a proprietary embedded processor in it is a candidate for being reinvented with Open Hardware. That's how the Internet of Things is going to finally become a reality.

via Adafruit

Ever wanted your satellite? Try KickSat previewed by Citizen Quartely:

With the development of the cubesat, a 10cm cubed satellite the price dropped to mid 5 figures, bringing the price in range of most universities and a few financially endowed individuals. It is now with great excitement that I introduce a project to bring satellite ownership to the common man. A lab out of Cornell has developed small dime sized satellites they are calling sprites, each with the same technical capabilities as sputnik. And so now for only $1000 you can have a satellite all of your own.

Founder of the Gogo board Paulo Blikstein, covered earlier discusses the FabLab@School project:

Photo News of TTI Fab Lab in Ghana

Myweku reports on Chris Nsamba's self-built airplane:

To be continued

Zack Matere | Farmer and Knowledge dispenser

2012-05-10T06:00:00.000-04:00

In spirit of the "Blackboard Blogger" and highlighted by Webaraza Farmer. In Kenya:

Zack Matere strolls in his four-acre piece of land checking the condition of his potatoes, with a hoe in one hand and a mobile phone in the other. Once in a while he takes pictures with his phone to share with his fellow farmers. For Matere has reaped handsome dividends by using the internet in farming, saving his last potato crop and now opening new markets.

His marriage with the Internet started when a strange disease infected his potatoes, the only source of his income. Having exhausted all other tenable options to get a cure for his produce after spending a fortune buying pesticides, the young farmer cycled 12 kilometers to the nearby cyber café...[continue reading]

Africa Cafe - Cape Town

2012-05-09T06:00:00.000-04:00

The BBC reports:

Portia de Smidt and her husband Jason knew that opening a restaurant of African food in Cape Town would not be an easy task...their Africa Cafe has evolved into one of the most popular restaurants in South Africa's most cosmopolitan city.

Mrs De Smidt, who is also the chef, says that their entrepreneurial adventure has had more highs than lows.

"We started in a recession and also people didn't know African food before, so it was difficult to start something that people were not exposed to in the beginning - those were the lows," she told the BBC African Dream series.

"A few things were difficult because we are a mixed couple - that was a bit of a low - people were a bit apprehensive and initially we wanted to be a restaurant that served students but we found that we had more and more tourists because tourists said: 'We've had Italian, we've had French, we want something different, we're in Africa, we must have some African food', and that's how they came to us," she added.

According to her, the highs included doing something different, making people taste food they had not had before, and travelling.

"We had to travel more to get new recipes. We travelled through different countries in Africa meeting different people, exciting ingredients and exciting cultures we encountered, and brought that back and tried to kind of encapsulate that in the different food and dishes that I subsequently served," she explained.

more here

Animal traction at Working Villages

2012-05-08T06:00:00.000-04:00

In the DRC,an update from the folks at Working Villages:

2012 has just started but it seems like it is already whizzing by! Things have been growing and changing in leaps and bounds at the Ruzizi Project, as the organization expands and takes on new avenues in the community. The new store in Uvira is thriving, as it meets a growing need for food in the city, and the farms are undergoing substantial growth.

The overwhelming triumph of 2012 so far has come from the new ox program; Alex's spring trip to the Ruzizi Project kept him there for over a month, but it proved to be more productive than we could have hoped. Tiller's International, the world-renowned animal traction experts, came to train 30 teamsters and teams of three-year-old oxen. Not only did the teamsters and oxen accomplish a great deal, but we were also able to find a supplier of young, vaccinated animals in the region. This was a fantastic coup, as it got rid of the four-year lead time necessary to breed our own oxen. The oxen and teamsters were quick and diligent students, and were plowing the fields by February - an astonishing accomplishment.

Click here to see some incredible videos of the ox training in action, and here to see more photos from the most recent trip.

Images courtesy of WV

African Robotics Network

2012-05-07T06:00:00.000-04:00

IEEE highlights the African Robotics Network:

Image courtesy of IEEE

Abibiman mma a wɔn anigye robot ho, yɛnkambom!

That's how you say, "African robot enthusiasts unite!" in Twi, one the main native languages in Ghana, a vibrant nation of 25 million people in West Africa. Roboticists there and in the United States are launching today an initiative to enhance robotics education, research, and industry in Africa. The African Robotics Network (AFRON) wants to mobilize a community of institutions and individuals working on robotics-related areas, strengthening communication and collaboration among them.

"There are many robotics activities emerging in Africa," says Ayorkor Korsah, a professor of computer science at Ashesi University, in Berekuso, a 45-minute drive north of Accra, Ghana's capital. "Our goal is to highlight, enhance, and provide support for efforts in different parts of the continent." Korsah co-founded AFRON with Ken Goldberg, an IEEE Fellow and professor of robotics at the University of California, Berkeley. Goldberg, who was born in Nigeria, where his parents were teachers, says one of the first projects AFRON is planning involves an international competition to design an extremely low-cost programmable robot for education.

The idea, still under development, is to create a simple robot with parts costing under $10 dollars that students would use to explore science and engineering topics. The robot would be connected via USB to a computer, and students would use open source software to program the robot's behavior and share their results...[continue reading]

Buni TV

2012-05-06T06:00:00.000-04:00

From Kenya:

Buni TV is a web and mobile distribution platform that aims to become the premier destination for top-quality, independent pan-African video. By showcasing the best, most innovative and visually arresting content being currently produced in or about Africa and distributing it new audiences on the continent and abroad, Buni TV intends to revolutionize the African media landscape.

Continuing an African Digital Art overview states that:

Image courtesy of ADA

...be it films and short films, documentaries, television, animation or music videos. They already have some feature length content including a short animation by Kwame Nyongo ; The Legend of Ngong Hills, Season 1-5 of The XYZ show, 100% Galsen: A Hip Hop Documentary Made in Senegal and lots of lovely indie and of the beaten path content. Buni TV is unique in curating its own content and seeks lesser know stuff to showcase both to the African audience and around the world. They partner with Africa in Motion, a film festival that runs in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The platform was created by Marie Lora-Mungai & Buni Media, designed by Barbara Muriungi and built by Andrew Mugoya of Asilia.