A garden center in Lilongwe that is somehow also a restaurant, an ice cream parlor, a florist and an art gallery? Well, that's is just the backdrop of this episode of Afrimaxx, which is all around the most sustainable ideas:
Trash that belongs in a museum
In Ibadan, Nigeria, someone built exactly that: a museum. But everything inside it was headed for a landfill. Jumoke Olowookere started asking what waste could become instead of where it should go. The answer she arrived at is unlike anything else on the continent - and it looks far better than it sounds.
Addis through a lens
Photographer and art entrepreneur Nafkot Gebeyehu moves through Addis Ababa - a city she calls "always new" - introducing the artists shaping its visual identity. One painter's portraits will make you look twice. A crowd-sourced photo book recovers stories from an era most people only remember as dark. The city, it turns out, has always had another side.
Real fake hair
Back in Malawi, an innovator is making hair extensions from sisal, the same plant fiber used for rope. Biodegradable, anti-fungal, locally sourced, the question is whether it can actually compete with the synthetic alternative. Customers and stylists are already weighing in.
Baked by the sun
In Lesotho, a young baker built his own solar parabolic cooker from scratch and opened a bakery that runs - on most days - at zero energy cost. The bread is warm, fresh and increasingly hard to find when clouds roll in. His customers have noticed.