[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: [...]

Businesses, pundits, non-profit organizations and thought-leaders come together in support of MFA

More Than 900 Expect To Participate In The 3-Day Event August 14 – 16.
In Accra, Ghana
Sponsors and supports continue to join as the excitement builds around Maker Faire Africa (MFA) later this week. Held August 14 – 16 in Accra, Ghana, MFA will bring together ingenuity and invention from across the continent. Focused [...]

BugLabs and Maker Faire Africa

BugLabs has created the ultimate high-tech hacker device, which they call “modular, open source hardware”. After talking to Peter Semmelheck, CEO of BugLabs, he was very excited about the idea of some Ghanaian programmers taking a crack at his device.
(I really hope they include the BUGbee 802.15.4 radio module with the kit [...]

Personal Sponsorships of Maker Faire Africa

We’ve been asked by a number of people if they could sponsor Maker Faire Africa as individuals. Amounts that range from $25 to $100. This is a good idea, and in line with the type of event that this is. Committee member Mark Grimes, founder of Ned.com, is in charge of all [...]

Choosing the Maker Faire Africa Logo

Maker Faire Africa logo winner:

The final logo was chosen because of how versatile it was for MFA. Maker Faire Africa represents a lot of different types of people, pastimes and projects. Having the imagery be more than just one type of gadget or practice seemed like a better fit. The four different [...]