Sudanese model Akuol de Mabior is a vision of beauty on the latest cover of Annabelle, a Swiss magazine, for their spread on African-inspired fashions from Prada and Burberry. See more pics at Beauty is Diverse YOU WILL LOVE: Alek Wek and Ajak Deng in Spring 2012 Kenzo Ad
All photos by Leon Oosthuizen After a super short four-day run, Neo Muyanga’s début operetta, The Flower of Shembe, has left Cape Town audiences hungering for a fast comeback. Melding together traditional and classical forms with Afro-futurist costume design and sets, this production is a liberating future-forward fable, a 21st century African fairy story in song. Entering the theatre, you feel as if Star Trek has touched down in Polokwane, [...]
Tolu Ogunlesi appears on our list of ten Nigerian wordsmiths you should know. The man is a jack of all trades: journalist, poet, fiction writer…and twitter champ perhaps?! An award-winning Nigerian journalist (Arts and Culture Prize in the 2009 CNN Multichoice African Journalism Awards), Ogunlesi’s writing has appeared in The Independent, CNN.com, Economist.com, Publishing Perspectives and guardian.co.uk. His fiction and poetry have been published in The London Magazine, Wasafiri, Farafina, PEN Anthology of New Nigerian [...]
Black Acrylic is a delightfully personal Pan-Africanist mix of commentary on art, style, socio-politics, music and other things. A post (from which the above image comes) on reclaiming the cult of beauty had me with this: “Eager for anything that diverts from the script we gluttonously praise tokenism (e.g Tika Sumpter on Gossip Girl) and fetishism (e.g Vogue Italia Black Issue). Deep down we just want to publicly exist outside [...]
R&B songstress Keri Hilson recently visited Kanimambo, Mozambique, and kept a photo diary of her travels, via Twitter. “SoOoo glad to be back on African soil. I love it here!” she tweeted last week. Click through for a look at what looked like a great trip for Keri.
Cookie, Abby, Oz and Kaven live in the fabulous lane. They are the 4 Aces spread out between Lagos, DC, and New York making us wonder how we can make our lives this colourful and this care-free. These girls look good everywhere they go and they’re not the only ones who know it. So do the folk at Essence, Vogue Italia, Fashion Bomb and others who have featured their fierce [...]
(photo credit: http://www.flygirlblog.com/) This post is long overdue. I came up on this blog a couple years back via one of its Fly Girl Of The Week posts where readers – girls who are inherently fly – send in pictures and some text about themselves. I liked this round-the-way approach to sharing inspiration. It’s one of the things that keep me coming back. Author Andrea Pippins, such a consistent curator [...]
Heard of the Africa Reading Challenge? Running throughout the whole of 2012, the challenge, headed by Kinna Likimani of the literary blog Kinna Reads, pushes participants to discover the joys of reading African Literature by reading five books from African authors. It is these types of challenges and all things African literature that have made her blog one of the go-to locations online for dialogue on African literature from the [...]
I’m cheating. This spot is usually for blogs technically. But Buni TV, a web and mobile video channel, is too good and long overdue an idea to pass up. It’s an aggregation of innovative content you’re more likely to find off the beaten path of mainstream entertainment. It doesn’t say anything about curating just content from Africa, and it is brand new but so far that’s where the content appears [...]
It’s always pleasant to get a mixture of smart and sass on twitter. Karen Attiah gives you a good dose of each if you happen to follow her. This caliente Ghanaian-American easily transitions between discussing politics and women’s rights to pop culture and sports (with a hint of wit thrown in there). If she looks somewhat familiar, she had the opportunity to interview Alicia Keys for MTV base which aired [...]
