This story was originally reported by Edward McAllister, Editing by Anna Willard for the Thomson Reuters Foundation.  Until recently baobabs were only tapped for local use but in a major business shift a small network of producers and suppliers has pushed the fruit’s profile abroad Taerou Dieuhiou has been shinning barefoot up baobab trees in Senegal’s southern Casamance region to collect the oblong fruit since he was 15. Business has never been better. Inside the hard, green shell that dangles from the...
From flying cars to smart houses, shining utopias to interstellar worlds, there are many ways to imagine the future. Science fiction and fantasy genres have long been used to explore the different ways humanity could exist, whether it be an alteration of the present day, a couple of years from now, or centuries ahead. When we speculate about the future, it’s not just a matter of what we imagine, but who we imagine. Afrofuturism combines science fiction and fantasy with...
In Africa today there is a steadily rising number of young businessmen and women who are building successful, fast growing companies. Here at ONE we’re especially interested in those using their business acumen to help solve critical socio-economic problems. Check out our top 7.