Tag: Africa

Read Nigerian Author Wole Talabi’s Choices For Best African Science Fiction and Fantasy (AfroSFF) Short Fiction of 2015

Click here to read.

  

Cover of Interzone Issue 257, March 2015. Talabi picked Tendai Huchu’s story “The Worshipful Company of Milliners,” which appeared in this issue.

Coding flourishes in Ghana with an emphasis on access for women & girls

LINK: 100 Women, 100 Women 2015, Young, Geeky and Black: Ghana

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Who else is buried in King Tut’s tomb? Perhaps a queen, says one Egyptologist.

Read at The Christian Science Monitor.

Mask of Tutankhamun's mummy at The Egyptian Museum.

Mask of Tutankhamun’s mummy at The Egyptian Museum.

Raspberry Pi computers help schools in Zambia

LINK: GiaKonda installing the credit card-sized computers, along with solar panels to power them

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How Africa’s fastest solar power project is lighting up Rwanda

East African plant is completed in less than a year

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Gambia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe & More: Discover Africa’s Short Sci-Fi

LINK: Authors like Nnedi Okorafor, Biram Mboob, Tendai Huchu & Sarah Lotz

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Barrington Stoke Acquires Graphic Novel of Refugee’s Journey

Read at Thebookseller.com.

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Cover of French edition of “Alpha”

 

Nigerian Professor Has “Almost Certainly Not” Solved The Riemann Hypothesis—So No $1 Million

Read about Opeyemi Enoch and the ongoing rumor at Gizmodo.com.

Georg_Friedrich_Bernhard_RiemannIn 1859, German mathematician Bernhard Riemann posited a problem that mathematicians are still working on today.

Kenya: Transforming Africa’s Digital Spaces

LINK: Tech and the Future of Africa

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Afrofuturism from Beninese/Belgian photographer Fabrice Monteiro

Senegal Series Entitled ‘The Prophecy’

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