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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Photo ©Glenna Gordon. Check out more from her Staten Island project I guess I’ve become one of those people. Internet sentimentalists. We miss things from 8 months ago like it was 1966. The African blogosphere felt so much more like our own special neighbourhood less than two years ago. I remember Scarlett Lion being one of the first blogs I was introduced to as part of this community I was [...]
Photo ©Shebreathes.com SheBreathes.com bills itself as a virtual vault of goodies where independent, emerging, and established designers can be shared and supported. They had us at “independent”. We’re all about DIY good looks having premiered our ‘What I Wore’ series this week, a feature we’d like to use to showcase the fascinating personal styles of people we come across. Also browse through their Sales Vault. I’m yet to find anything within my [...]
(photo credit: from Yoruba Girl Dancing) Hopefully you’re familiar with one of our most popular set of posts, The ’10 Nigerians….’ series. If you are, then you’ll know this isn’t the first time we’ve sung the praises of journalist and writer Bim Adewunmi. We listed her as one of 10 Nigerian wordsmiths you should know. The other day I had a browse through her blog Yoruba Girl Dancing and in [...]
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