I love the AfriGadget site as I never know what I will find there next! All over Africa you will find people recycling objects to make other objects. Here is a great article about a guy making coffee makers from used shells in Ethiopia.
Ethiopian Ingenuity: Turning Mortar Shells Into Coffee Makers
By ErikThere’s an interesting story on the BBC about an Ethiopian gentleman who is taking war’s leftovers and converting them into coffee machines.
He uses old mortar shells, which stand about one metre high, to make his coffee machines.
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[...] masses, mainly in education, infrastructure and agriculture’. A good example of this comes via Sociolingo: in the outskirts of Addis, Azmeraw Zeleke is turning burnt-out shells into cylinders used in [...]