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A Lot of Colourful Cloth

Here is one of the stores we shop at in Sierra Leone. The cloth on the desk is the Primary Colours design, which has become popular in our belt catalogue. The woman on the right is holding some cloth...

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We’ve Passed Our Indiegogo Target! Onwards to 10,000!

Almost a month ago, we set a fundraising target of $8,500 for ourselves on Indiegogo. We were a bit nervous; it was the first time that we were really putting Bureh out there into the world. And now,...

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Bureh, Born on the Turtle Islands

South of the Freetown peninsula lies a small archipelago of islands called the Turtle Islands. These islands are flung far from the bustling streets of Freetown, and just about everything else. With...

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We’ve passed 10,000 on Indiegogo!!!

After passing our original goal of raising $8,500 on Indiegogo a week ago, we set ourselves the new goal of reaching $10,000… and we made it!!! There are still 45 hours left on the Indiegogo campaign…...

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MIT Business School gives Bureh a Feature

Bureh features strongly in the MIT Sloan Experts Blog! “High fashion startup creates jobs in West Africa”. We’ve been on their front page for a massive TWO days now. We’re still in those young heady...

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Sierra Leonean teenager becomes MIT’s youngest ever “Visiting Practitioner”

MIT recently welcomed its youngest ever “Visiting Practitioner”, a 15 year old boy from Sierra Leone called Kelvin Doe. Known in Freetown as “DJ Focus”, Kelvin makes his own radio transmitters,...

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J-PAL and Bureh –“the Hardy Boys of Freetown”

Switsalone recently called the J-PAL guys (that’s us) working in Sierra Leone “the Hardy Boys of Freetown”. They also gave Bureh a nice review on their website. Take a look over here! Take a look at...

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Our Freetown Flower is in GLAMOUR

GLAMOUR featured our Freetown Flower with Kaone Kario in South Africa. Love the touch that an African print has on an outfit of solid, simple colours.

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Spotlight: Oliberte

This post is the first in our series spotlighting companies we think are leading the charge to a better world. From small to large, companies and people all over the world are doing incredible things....

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Friday Tunes: Nigerian Hip Hop Artist P Square

Nigerian Hip Hop for the win. It’s Friday, so time to dance. In Sierra Leone, most music comes from Nigeria. Across Africa, locally produced music is incredibly popular. This Nigerian Hip-Hop song has...

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