27 Jul

Nairobi tech start-ups get creative

By Katie Hartin, MSc student, Africa and International Development Occupying the fourth floors of Piedmont Plaza and Bishop Magua Centre, respectively, the Nairobi Garage and iHub offer bright, open rooms where young entrepreneurs and tech developers can link across both...
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20 Jul

Solar waste, repair and recycling

By James Turing and Dr Jamie Cross Over the past three years the University of Edinburgh has established close relationships with social enterprises and private companies involved in Africa’s off grid solar industry. MSc and PhD students, for example, have...
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17 Jul

Edinburgh Africanists at the ECAS Conference in Paris

By Dr. Wolfgang Zeller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh Every other year at the height of summer, the planet’s largest gathering of academics studying Africa – the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS)...
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15 Jul

Student’s know-how nets Nairobi trip

By Dr Jamie Cross, Social Anthropology and Development, School of Social and Political Science Later this month I will be taking a small group of prize-winning students to Nairobi to learn about the work of one of our newest partners,...
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15 Jul

Sustainability in Kenya

By Lukhona Mnguni, Currently studying for an MSc in Africa & International Development I have just returned from a work-based placement with the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) in in Nairobi, Kenya. ACTS is one of Africa’s leading organisations...
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13 Jul

Architecture and Alumni in Ghana

By Dr Ola Uduku, Reader in Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art  Professor Miles Glendinning and I spent some time in Ghana’s capital city Accra last week in order to develop our links with the University of Ghana institution and visit their archive...
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10 Jul

Widening African Horizons

By Isabell Majewsky Anderson, Head of Go Abroad, Director of Summer School Office Later this summer, ten students from a range of backgrounds will have the opportunity to attend a Widening Horizons programme in Tanzania. The trip will be an...
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