From Ndejje to Glasgow: It's Kirstie's Mzuri Beads

Glasgow girl and social entrepreneur Kirstie Maclean has started up a profitable business selling environmental-friendly paper beads made in the Ugandan village of Ndejje.

As The Sunday Post's Tracey Bryce reports, "Her African Beads are flying off the shelves", Click here for more

South Africa gears up for World Cup

With less than 500 days left to Africa's first and historic World Cup, will South Africa deliver?

(Image Source: AFP, Times)

“We have to trust in the Africans’ ability to organise the competition. Trust will give them confidence.” (Sepp Blatter)

Clare Byrne takes a look at the progress and challenges, Click here for more

Nigeria tops Internet usage in Africa

"Nigeria leads Africa in terms of people who access the internet. According to statistics released in the Internet Governance Forum held from 3-6 December 2008 at Hyderabad, India, the number of Nigerian Internet Users had reached 10 million placing it way ahead of other countries like South Africa and Egypt."

More on this from Ugabyte's Francis Mwathi

Convicts in Ghana to grow food and make profit

"In Ghana, a project aims to transform prisons into productive farms. It'll give inmates the inputs needed to start and sustain their own food production enterprises. They'll cultivate state land that's presently lying fallow, and farming experts will teach them skills to use when they're released from jail"

VOA's Darren Taylor outlines Moses Kanduri's vision here

Mobile Phones boost African Farmers

"Along with the odd Premier League football shirt, mobile phones are an incongruous glimpse of modernity amid the daily struggle for money and food in Katine. They are also a crucial component in the livelihoods strategy of the African Medical and Research Foundation (Amref) and its partner Farm-Africa in Katine, backed by donations from Observer and Guardian readers and Barclays"

Click here to read the full article by The Guardian's David Smith