The world's best 20 global apps from the AppCircus 2011 World Tour have been announced and three of the finalists are of African origin whilst two of these are the only women to make it to the top 20.

The three are Ugandan Christine Ampaire, of

African style is very much in vogue. Numerous runways in both New York and London fashion weeks could as well be called African fashion week. There were African influenced textiles such as the Malian Bogolan, also known as tribal in Donna Karan-review-speak. Proenza Schouler also gave a preview...

On the second day of the UK riots I boarded a flight from Finland to London where I live. Before take off I went through tweets containing the #londonriots hash tag. I then tweeted my shock over the amount of racist comments to do with the riots. Three hours later...