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Fertile Grounds: Low-Tech “Sand Dams” Breathe New Life into African Drylands

When it rains, it can pour, but in the world's drylands the net result can be disastrous: flows of water washing away useful soil and what little gets left behind dries up, forcing locals to take ...

Incredible Grain Silo Transformation: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

106 vertical concrete tubes making up a massive disused grain silo in Cape Town, South Africa are sliced and carved from the inside out to produce cathedral-like spaces in this incredible ...

Droneport: New UAV Hub to Ship Medical Supplies Across Rwanda

This architect-designed drone airport will be the first of its kind, created to facilitate an unmanned aerial vehicle supply chain servicing remote areas of Africa, addressing urgent medical ...

Beware of Colour: Activists Highlight Decay with Pink Paint

Splashed with bright buckets of paint from roofs and windows, the colorfully defaced buildings of downtown Johannesburg have evoked different reactions from supports and detractors who variously ...

End of the World Cinema Abandoned in the Egyptian Desert

In the middle of Egypt's inhospitable Sinai Desert, stacked on a rocky hillside overlooking a pile of sticks, row after row of worn wooden movie theater seats sit eerily empty. Why would anyone ...

3-Story Floating School in Nigeria Rides on Recycled Barrels

256 plastic barrels support this multistory marvel, which stands up and out even amid a sea of buoyant and stilted architecture in this fishing village alongside Lagos, Nigeria's largest ...

12-Country Coalition: Building the Great Green Wall of Africa

The clock is ticking for the collaborative creation of a living green wall to span nearly 5,000 miles across the African continent, designed to slow or even stop the relentless spread of ...

Sleep with the Fishes: Floating Underwater Hotel Room

Watch eerily illuminated sea creatures swim past your windows at night as you fall asleep on your own 'private floating island,' an underwater hotel room at the Manta Resort (photography ...

Mansions to Mines: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Modern Africa

Ranging from eerie, remote desert settlements in the hottest place on earth to perfectly pastel modern ghost towns, Africa's standout abandonments are as diverse and fascinating as the continent ...

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