Do you know a communal cooker is turning rubbish into fuel to feed residents of one of Africa’s biggest slums — Kibera — on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya? Afrigadget the full gist on the communal stove and oven.
The garbage-burning oven communal oven is a pilot project designed to clean up Kenya’s slums while preserving [...]

To reverse the downward trends in the Shell-shocked Niger-Delta requires addressing the proverbial elephant in the room — the entities befitting from the chaos in the region, whose natural instinct is to maintain the status quo, people whose mindset is closed to the idea of change. These are the entities the Nigerian President and his [...]

A private university in Accra, Ghana, is incorporating ecologically sound methods for providing sanitation and clean water on its campus. Valley View University is also recycling human waste and used water from dormitories as fertilizer for the school’s farm. Voice of America English to Africa Service reporter Joana Mantey, in Accra, says the campus covers [...]

Many years ago, a Dubai Sheikh realized that Dubai’s oil will soon run out, so he put in place measures to build up an economy in that could survive the end of the oil boom. The result is the present day Dubai. What happens to the nations of Africa when their timber, gold, diamond, crude [...]

The 35W Minnesota bridge experience ought to serve as a benchmark for Nigerian authorities in bridge construction and traffic management. At the end of the repairs on the Lagos Third Mainland bridge (above), would one be able to justify the price-tag and hassles to Lagos commuters?

A recent survey says Cameroon’s economic hub, Douala, is Africa’s second most expensive city. Last year the same survey had it as the most expensive. From Cameroon’s economic capital, Douala, Voice of America English to Africa Service reporter Ntaryike Divine, Jr., says Douala, the center of Cameroon’s trade and industry, is plagued by rundown infrastructure, [...]

Swathes of West Africa’s coastline extending from the orange dunes in Mauritania to the dense tropical forests in Cameroon will be underwater by the end of the century as a direct consequence of climate change, environmental experts warn.

South Africa takes a broad step toward renewable power supply:

South Africa’s first renewable energy power initiative feeding into the national grid was officially powered up on Friday. The R75-million Darling Wind Farm consists of four turbines of 1.3 MW capacity generating a total of 5.2 MW of beautiful clean energy!
The idea for Darling Wind [...]

Fact: Africa generates abysmally low output of electricity. While Africa is flush with biomass, a sustainable and cheap source of energy, its use as an alternative fuel source for electric power plant is yet to take foothold.
This may be changing soon - Timbuktu Chronicles reports on a biomass/biogas powered “off-grid” power plant [...]

There are those who argue that this is normal, the earth is going through a typical cycle and there is nothing to worry about. And, there are those who argue that “Global Warming” or “Climate Change” is a direct result of uncontrolled gas emission mainly caused by industrial countries and there is a need for [...]