[Video] Maker Faire Africa: Ghana 2009

This excellent Maker Faire Africa video compilation was created by the good folks at AfricaNews.

Maker Faire Africa in the News

All the fun of the technology faire – The Gaurdian
BBC Digital Planet podcast interview (starts around minute 13:00)

Recap of Maker Faire Africa 2009 – ICT4D.at
Maker Faire Africa ‘09 thrills – AfricaNews
Maker Faire Africa update – MAKE Magazine
Maker Faire Africa showcases ingenuity – Crossing the Streams blog
Interview with Emer Beamer and Emeka Okafor of Maker Faire [...]

Mozilla at Maker Faire Africa

(A review, overview and email from Kwamena Appiah-Kubi, the Mozilla team lead for Maker Faire Africa)

Maker Faire Africa was interesting and exciting. My weekend couldn’t have been better spent. I met a lot of like minded people and and saw a lot of interesting things made locally I had never heard of. I also got [...]

Afrobotics at Maker Faire Africa

There’s are some great pictures put up by Miquel of Maneno about Afrobotics, the initiative that was launched at Maker Faire Africa by a number of Ghanian engineers, business people and programmers.

Afrobotics goal:
“inspire African university students to be science, engineering, and technology leaders, by enabling them in innovative team-based competitions that build science, [...]

Maker Faire Africa Flickr Group

If you’re looking for any pictures of Maker Faire Africa, we have a Flickr group that has pictures. Keep updated on the newest images from the event, where a number of us are updating it multiple times throughout the day.

Maker Faire Africa in the News

[The Maker Faire Africa team at a press conference]
Here are some of the media and blogs that have been writing about Maker Faire Africa:
AfricaNews: Maker Faire Africa kicks off
BikeJuju: Maker Faire Africa features bicycle-related inventors, projects
The Ghanaian Chronicle via AllAfrica: Maker Faire Africa underway in Accra
Core77: Maker Faire Africa is on!
Wired: Maker Faire Africa
Mental Floss: [...]

William Kamkwamba is Coming to Maker Faire Africa

A young Malawian built a windmill from scratch to help power the lights in his rural home, his name is William Kamkwamba.

We’re very excited to announce that William Kamkwamba, sponsored by his organization Moving Windmills, will be coming to Maker Faire Africa. I first met William at TED Africa two years ago in Arusha, [...]

Mobile Phone Charging in Ghana

Matt Berg over at BuildAfrica blog has an interesting story of Mr Acheampong, a local entrepreneur who makes money by charging people’s mobile phones. He uses a homemade C-cell battery setup to do this (see below):

“Mr. Acheampong, one of the Abusuapanin Community Leader’s in Bonsaaso village, use’s 4 C dry cell batteries to charge [...]

MFA at Maximizing Progress

From Joost – thanks Joost!
It’s great how a seedling idea can take root! Specifically, I’ve been a big fan and supporter of both the IDDS – the International Development Design Summits, which have been organized by Amy Smith and colleagues at MIT for the past two summers – and the growing set of Maker Faire’s — orchestrated by the maestros at Make‘zine! So [...]

MFA at Timbuktu Chronicles

Hash at Afrigadget reports on the plans for a Maker Faire-Africa 2009:

The focus here is not on high-tech, but on manufacturing. Specifically, fabrication, the type of small and unorganized businesses that pop up wherever an entrepreneur is found on the African continent. It gets exciting when you think about gathering some of the real innovators from this sector into one place where they [...]