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Curated by Ndarama Works and proudly supported by the Afreximbank CANEX programme, the Africa Pavilion at Anuga 2025 in Cologne, Germany, showcased Africa’s most innovative food and beverage creators.

A quiet crisis unfolds daily in bustling markets across Accra, Kano, Lagos, and beyond: traders lose income, goods, and health to rising temperatures. Through the Scaling Passive Affordable Cooling for Environmental Sustainability (SPACES) project, Ndarama Works has uncovered how heat stress is directly threatening livelihoods and how passive cooling solutions could shift this trajectory.

At Ndarama Works, we believe data is most powerful when it leads to action. That’s why our latest work with the Shell Foundation and partners—under the Scaling Passive Affordable Cooling for Environmental Sustainability (SPACES) project—goes beyond documentation.

At the Americas Food & Beverage Show 2025, an exclusive Africa Pavilion—curated by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and guided by the expertise of Ndarama Works—we showcased the transformative story of how Africa is increasingly becoming a hub for high-quality, innovative food products that attract global consumers.

When Vivens Uwizeyimana founded Umurava in 2021, his dream was simple yet ambitious: to build Africa’s most prominent digital workforce and address the twin challenges of global digital talent shortages and African youth unemployment.