From a simple tusker t-shirt, Jeffrey Kimathi has grown Jamhuri Wear into Africa’s premier global street wear label. The Kenyan entrepreneur and designer meets AfriPOP! in the backyard of his South B suburb home in Nairobi, where he has returned for the first time since he left ten years ago. He describes the formative years, sketching the outline of the Kenyan urban landscape back then and narrating his own personal [...]
Officially Fela fever has risen to the uppermost echelons of pop culture. The rumour that Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith will put some cash on the Broadway music Fela! based on the afro-beat legend’s life is true. Billboard confirms in this story where Rikki Stein, Fela Kuti’s former manager predicts, “There’s going to be an enormous incentive for people to investigate Fela when they know that Jay-Z and Will [...]
The glossy story: The Third annual ThisDay Music Festival took place over the weekend. According to the paper’s website the event was meant to “celebrate the Best and Brightest of Emerging New Africa” and is “designed to revolutionize global perspectives on African issues. This is aimed at shifting focus from Africa’s problems to the opportunities, and from treating the symptoms to curing the diseases and projecting a positive image of [...]
