Co-Creation Hub unveils first African Design Lab in Rwanda’s Kigali, $11m to be invested

Rwanda's capital Kigali finally gets its first African Design Lab as part of its expansion strategy. The firm, Co-Creation Hub has a plan to invest USD 11 million on designing design technology solutions to systemic problems in public health, education and governance.

The founder of Nigeria's Yaba-located Co-Creation Hub (Cc-HUB), Bosun Tijani had visited Rwanda in several occasions and minutely observed the country's impressive growth in the last few years. While understanding the potential in the East African country, Bosun Tijani already announced earlier that his company was manufacturing a new design lab in Rwanda.

"It was necessary to adopt the concept of design thinking as it would relieve Africa the burden of innovating just for the sake of it," Tijani opined. "It is important to understand that we don't have the luxury to build solutions just for the sake of solutions. We have to build for end users who desperately need solutions for the existing problems in society. Applying design thinking will help African countries not waste time during the process of building solutions," he added.

According to The New Times, he highlighted some vital things that the concept of design can bring – ensuring better outcomes, improve processes, expand capabilities and increase equity. According to him, all these are critically vital to rapidly innovate and build much-needed solutions in Africa.

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