Holidaymakers can now spend nights sleeping beneath the surface of the ocean at this partially submerged hotel suite in the Zanzibar archipelago (+ movie). More about Underwater hotel room opens off the coast of Zanzibar
News: designer and entrepreneur Gwendolyn Floyd has launched an e-commerce platform that allows female artisans from developing countries to overcome "economic discrimination" and sell jewellery using just a mobile phone (+ movies). More about New website helps African craftswomen become entrepreneurs
Visitors to the Afrofuture exhibition in Milan built light-up glasses from recycled materials at a workshop organised by Maker Faire Africa (+ movie). More about Maker Faire Africa Workshop at Afrofuture
News: researchers from IBM have redesigned the bus routes across Ivory Coast's largest city using data from mobile phones. More about Mobile phone data used to redesign bus network in Ivory Coast
Milan 2013: Congolese music performed with mobile phones, carpentry workshops making fantasy coffins and a photo-documentary inspired by the failed Zambian space programme are all part of an exhibition of African design and culture in a Milanese department store next week (+ slideshow). More about Afrofuture at La Rinascente
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: we speak to architect David Adjaye, fresh off the stage from his presentation at Design Indaba, about his relationship with Africa and why he believes the continent provides a great opportunity for architects. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about "Africa is an extraordinary opportunity" - David Adjaye
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in the second part of our tour around Cape Town, Design Indaba founder Ravi Naidoo shows us the former industrial suburb of Woodstock, which the city's design community has recently made its home, and explains the importance of upcycling in South African design. More about "South Africa has always had an upcycling culture"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our first Dezeen and MINI World Tour despatch, Ravi Naidoo takes us on a tour of his home city and explains why he founded the Design Indaba conference that is taking place in Cape Town this week. More about Africa today is a place of "renewal, regeneration and growth"
This week Dezeen is in Cape Town so here's a steampunk-inspired coffee shop in the city by South African designer Haldane Martin. More about Truth Coffee by Haldane Martin
Manhattan-based firm SHoP Architects has sent us a movie and more images illustrating its masterplan for Konza Techno City, a new "silicon" city 40 miles from Kenya's capital Nairobi (+ movie). More about Konza Techno City masterplan by SHoP Architects
News: the Kenyan government has commenced work on Konza Technology City, a £9.1 billion IT and business hub dubbed "Africa's Silicon Savannah". More about Kenyan silicon city under construction
Discarded bottles sourced from hotels, restaurants, homes and foreign embassies are being filled with sand and used as bricks to create curved-walled houses in a Nigerian village. More about Plastic bottles filled with sand used to build houses in Nigeria
Dezeen Wire: Cape Town in South Africa has been named World Design Capital 2014 by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid). More about Cape Town named World Design Capital 2014
Designer Rafael de Cárdenas of New York created the interior of this Cape Town menswear store Unknown Union with shelving in clashing colours that fade into each other. More about Unknown Union by Rafael de Cárdenas
Foster + Partners have completed two modular headquarters for Moroccan bank BMCE in Rabat and Casablanca, Morocco. More about BMCE headquarters by Foster + Partners
Canadian practice RUFproject have completed a football training centre in Soweto, South Africa, with wooden louvres wrapping the upper parts of the structure. More about Football Training Centre Soweto by RUFproject
London studio DOS Architects have won a competition to design a 2000-seat church in Lagos, Nigeria with this design featuring an undulating roof. More about Catholic Church of the Transfiguration by DOS Architects
Here’s another stadium designed by German studio GMP Architekten (see our earlier stories here and here) for the 2010 FIFA World Cup starting this week in South Africa. More about Green Point Stadium by GMP Architekten
Here's another stadium designed by German studio GMP Architekten (see our earlier story) for the 2010 FIFA World Cup starting next week. More about Moses Mabhida Stadium by GMP Architekten
Here's one of three stadiums designed by German studio GMP Architekten for the 2010 FIFA World Cup that begins in South Africa next week. More about Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium by GMP Architekten