Africa Direct

Plants, pro­duce and em­pow­er­ment – a col­lec­tive re­sponse to a com­mu­ni­ty’s needs in Cape Town, South Africa.

A grand­moth­er in Jos, Nige­ria goes from break­ing rocks for a liv­ing to rock­ing so­cial me­dia with her song.

Kenya’s only ice hock­ey team must over­come many ob­sta­cles to get back on the ice and back into com­pe­ti­tion af­ter COVID.

A Mozam­bi­can boy who builds life-size mod­els of he­li­copters and cars from wire and card­board has high am­bi­tions.

Artist Ibrahim Ma­hama ex­plores his­tor­i­cal mem­o­ries through every­day ob­jects and gi­ant ex­hi­bi­tions in Ghana.

Com­pil­ing a dic­tio­nary of click-based words, Clau­dia works to save her grand­moth­er’s dy­ing San, or Bush­man, lan­guage.

Rwan­da’s strik­ing Ama­sun­zu hair­style, with its crests and part­ings which once car­ried mes­sages, is mak­ing a come­back.

A Malian con­tem­po­rary dance com­pa­ny trav­els to a re­mote vil­lage to in­te­grate tra­di­tion­al dances into their work.

A fa­cial recog­ni­tion app de­signed by soft­ware en­gi­neer Charlette N’Gues­san, a woman with unique iden­ti­ty is­sues.

The cen­turies-old tra­di­tion of drift­wood fish­ing in the Blue Nile is un­der threat in Su­dan.