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Monthly Archives: February 2008

  • February 18, 2008
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AfriGadget: the story behind the stories.

What does it take, out there in the field, to get an AfriGadget story? Well, this video that I took back in the summer of 2007 shows Hash (aka WhiteAfrican) hard at work getting the Africa’s Modular Machines piece that … Read more →

  • Posted in: AfriGadget, Ingenuity, Jua Kali
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  • February 11, 2008
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Simpsons Carvings from Kenya

This one is not exactly AfriGadget, more like an AfriToy, but we love the story nonetheless. The video reporter Ruud Elmendorp visited the small village of Tabaaka, near Kakamega, in western province Kenya. Below is a video showing the master … Read more →

  • Posted in: Materials, Toys
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  • February 6, 2008
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The Bamboo Bike project

The Bamboo Bike, an endeavour that aims at building bicycles in a sustainable fashion using bamboo as the primary construction material, is a joint project run by Craig Calfree of Calfree Design, a high tech bicycle design firm based in … Read more →

  • Posted in: AfriGadget, Gadgets, How-To, Jua Kali, Metal, Transportation, Wood
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