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(photo credit: Bob Pixel) If you believed the internet you’d be led to think the sexuality of African women is a non-thing (just google those terms and see what comes up). Head over to any given comments’ section on Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women and you’ll quickly realise that’s just not true. This is a first for our “blog we love” series – pharmacie en ligne andorre a blog with [...]
(photo credit: biko zulu) I got put on to Kenyan lifestyle writer and blogger Jackson Biko’s musings by Binyavanga Wainaina’s twitter feed. By the way if you’re not up on Kenyan twitter you’re probably not doing social media right – these lot are a riot! The post he linked me to is particularly timely as Kenya gets ready to go to the polls. It also reminded me of a sobering statement [...]
(photo credit: Skattie What Are You Wearing?) Often I just don’t get fashion. I mean, don’t get me wrong I know how to throw an outfit together and I clean up pretty good for the cameras. cialis online But there are times when the looks that emerge from runways and some people’s closets leave me somewhere between mystified and amused. Skattie What Are You Wearing? is a long time favourite [...]
(photo credit:Afroklectic.com) How much do you know about Africans living in Australia? Not a whole lot if you’re like me. Once I met Zimbabwean pop singer/songwriter and producer purchase viagra Audius Mtawarira. At the time he was living in Perth. Then of course there’s our favourite grown up kid Tehn Diamond who famously dropped out of Brisbane University to realise his dreams of having a music career. Between them I [...]
(photo credit: Chestnut Orange) I recently joined Pinterest and besides the usual diminishing productivity one has to endure from going down rabbit holes on the net when you first engage on a new social media platform, I am enjoying it. I’ve come across the prettiest visuals which have signposted me to some amazing ideas and blogs. Chestnut Orange is one such. It’s cute and clean and it features this post [...]
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(Photo credit: Street Etiquette ©) On Twitter today someone asked 'where have all the fine black men gone'? I found them! You might have heard of Joshua Kissi and Travis Gumbs. Their urban style blog Street Etiquette has been featured in GQ, Complex, the Guardian UK and the London Times. And just yesterday, The Root name checked them on their Best Black Bloggers of 2012 list. buy research paper I'm especially sold the [...]
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(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 [...]
