Usiku Games, a Kenyan mobile games company, has unveiled edutainment games to help primary school-aged children improve on their learning skills especially in Math and English languages. The mobile web-based platform dubbed “Tizi Games” are designed to be fun and entertaining as they help educate the pupils. Each game is designed around a particular subject based on the new Competency …

So It’s not quite much to be added but it’s sure an information for the ones who have not yet applied for Battlefield Africa, An Event brought together by a collaboration between Techcrunch and Facebook. The event that is set to happen in October.  Well, Today morning Techcrunch hosted an open meetup at Ihub, Kenya’s innovation hub, in preparation for the …

Sometimes I sit down and become a ( Technological Racist ) and critic not because of my own will but I’d love us to come up with our own Ideas and Innovations. I can sit for hours playing game or using a certain gadget, a few hours after being absorbed, I find a glitch in the game or I realize …

I have always been a fanatic of innovation and new technology, this developments creates an adrenaline in me more so when I notice its a world class innovation developed at home and,  Africa’s innovation over the past years has greatly improved giving me the amount of satisfaction and hope . In every area  of technology there has been a development …

Andela, codeX and Moringa School may get all the credit for pioneering coding schools in Africa, but in fact someone got there first in 2014. Tania van Wyk De Vries, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of South African software development and training company Infoware Studios, launched Digital Geekaship in 2014, frustrated by the level of technical skills of students …

Dadaab, in Garissa County, is the site of a United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) base that hosts over 320,000 refugees, making it the largest such complex in the world. Danish Refugee Council has been engaged by UNHCR as one of its implementing partners to undertake various educational activities in Daadab, and the organisation has now partnered iHub to …

Source iHub What is a Serious Game? A Serious game is one which uses concepts and technologies derived from computer entertainment games for non-entertainment purposes such as research, policy, decision-making, training and learning. Serious games often combines analogue techniques (pen and paper) and social interaction with state of the art game and simulation technologies (immersive 3D virtual game worlds). The …

Africa is slowly embracing technology at all levels, Recently we have seen games that have been developed by Africans ie , Bungoma Hangman. According to Disrupt Africa ,  Nigerian mobile game production company Gamsole is making a big impact on the global gaming scene, with millions of downloads from around the world. In this guest post, Gamsole founder Abiola Olaniran …