A Kenyan woman and owner of a Nairobi-based factory has invented a brick stronger than concrete from recycled plastics.
Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old materials engineer, is the founder of Gjenge Makers, a manufacturing company based in the Kenyan Capital that produces alternative, affordable building materials from recycled plastics.
“Our product is almost five to seven times stronger than concrete,” said Matee, who selected as a 2020 regional winner in the United Nations’ Young Champions of the Earth Program. She designed the machines that produce the bricks.
Matee said her company converts waste that cannot usually be processed or recycled into alternative building products. She hopes to expand across the African continent.
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By Lindsay Wang, AsAmNews Intern
A small plaque set into the wall of a decrepit building in Lower Denver commemorates the city’s first recorded race riot, which resulted in the decay and ultimate disappearance of the city’s historic Chinatown.
Last summer Denver began a renaming initiative of public spaces and landmarks named after individuals with connections to racism, colonization and other oppressive institutions. Members of the Re-envisioning Denver’s Historic Chinatown project quickly turned their attention to the plaque.
The plaque, titled “Hop Alley/Chinese Riot of 1880,” describes a Chinatown populated with “500 Chinese” and “17 known opium dens … where one could ‘hit the pipe’ or ‘suck the bamboo.’”
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Lecture/Exhibition “Image & Imagination: The Photographs of Albert Chong”
“Image & Imagination: The Photographs of Albert Chong” are on view in a solo exhibition at the Main Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, until March 25, 2021. On Tuesday, February 23, 2:00-4:00pm (Eastern), Chong will deliver an Artist Talk about the exhibition via Zoom (see following link: https://forms.gle/bsYQjZCDxUJYxmx89).
Albert Chong was born in Kingston, Jamaica, W. I. in 1958. He is the last of eight children of merchant Chinese and Afro Jamaica parents. He teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder. About his work, he explains:
My work in photography sometimes utilizes found, appropriated and familial photographs as well as many types of objects primarily of an organic nature that serve as shamanic talismans and symbolic and referential signifiers. These works aspire to visually embed the narratives of race and ethnicity with the aesthetic whimsy r
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