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kayobi: Lagos by air - Mega City #lagos #lasgidi #smwlagos...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:23:55 -0400

kayobi:

Lagos by air - Mega City #lagos #lasgidi #smwlagos #travel #passportlife #nigeria

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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:22:10 -0400

REVOLUTIONARY LOVE

africaisdonesuffering: Women in Africa and the Diaspora: “Waist...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:25:57 -0400

africaisdonesuffering:

Women in Africa and the Diaspora: “Waist Beads”

The growing popularity of waist beads as a trend in the West has led them to take on their own meanings and interpretations. Now, many women wear them as a form of personal expression or as a fashion statement. Although waist beads are not limited to any race, culture, or country, it is still very important to know and understand the significance of waist beads within African cultures.

Waist beads have a long history in Africa dating back to ancient Egypt and are worn for various reasons and purposes. They are a symbol and celebration of womanhood, sexuality, femininity, fertility, healing, spirituality, body shaping, first menses, protection, seduction, and wealth amongst other things. The meaning of the colors and different shapes of beads varies with every tribe and they can be thought of as a visual dialect. Each bead, color, and shape relays a different message depending on the receiver.

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SXSW 2013 PANEL: African or Bust! Content Monetization,...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:23:39 -0500

SXSW 2013 PANEL: African or Bust! Content Monetization, Opportunity (by SocietyHAE)

"It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls – especially when it’s..."

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 02:25:53 -0500

“It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls – especially when it’s 41,000 girls saying it in a chorus, never recognizing the contradiction. It’s taking a form of contempt for women – even a hatred for women – and internalizing it by saying, Yes, those girls are awful, but I’m special, I’m not like that, instead of stepping back and saying, This is a lie.
…
The real meaning of “I’m not like the other girls” is, I think, “I’m not the media’s image of what girls should be.” Well, very, very few of us are. Pop culture wants to tell us that we’re all shallow, backstabbing, appearance-obsessed shopaholics without a thought in our heads beyond cute boys and cuter handbags. It’s a lie – a flat-out lie – and we need to recognize it and say so instead of accepting that judgment as true for other girls, but not for you.”

- “I’m not like the other girls”, Claudia Gray (via caitsmeissner)

thefader: GEN F: AME Seventeen-year-old Amy Kabba paces the...

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 02:23:50 -0500

thefader:

GEN F: A*M*E

Seventeen-year-old Amy Kabba paces the stage of an East London dive in short-shorts and vertiginous ankle boots, working the crowd to perfection with perky between-song banter and a swagger that could fill arenas. Running through her set, which includes the Jamaican-inflected, booty-winding hooks of “Ride or Die” and the two-step-influenced summer jam, “Find a Boy,” she stirs a melting pot of pop. Kabba, who performs as A*M*E, knows her songs are good—a track she co-wrote debuted at number one in Korea, care of K-pop girl group f(x)—and with a T-Pain collaboration already in the can, she has her sights set on chart conquests of her own.

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anotherafrica: Vintage Album Artwork | Pop graphics for Sudan’s...

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 02:22:01 -0500

anotherafrica:

Vintage Album Artwork | Pop graphics for Sudan’s Mohamed Merghani.

Courtesy of Radio Diffusion.

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thatonesuheirhammad: cosmic water spirit. congo bark cloth....

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 02:17:29 -0500

thatonesuheirhammad:

cosmic water spirit. congo bark cloth. d.simmons

Dont Rape.

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 02:15:24 -0500

Dont Rape.

aisaestelle: Na you sabi Dusty foot

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 02:09:40 -0500

aisaestelle:

Na you sabi

Dusty foot

faderstyle: MICHELLE OBAMA DRAG Boundaries need not be kept.

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 02:07:39 -0500

faderstyle:

MICHELLE OBAMA DRAG

Boundaries need not be kept.

fotojournalismus: A girl walks past election posters for...

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 02:04:30 -0500

fotojournalismus:

A girl walks past election posters for incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012.

[Credit : Rebecca Blackwell/AP]

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Mon, 31 Dec 2012 01:58:34 -0500

warsan is elsewhere.: how i take care of myself.

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 01:57:32 -0500

warsan is elsewhere.: how i take care of myself. :

warsanshire:

long baths

napping

bill murray

somali tea (cinnamon, cardamom, cloves)

read the qur’an in english out loud to myself because it is a long poem

don’t take anything personally

never assume

laugh

go to another town

another city

another country

get a facial/manicure/pedicure/massage

…

Thank you warsan

Delphine Fawundu led a group of 5 burgeoning female Nigerian...

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 08:50:30 -0400

Delphine Fawundu led a group of 5 burgeoning female Nigerian photographers in a 3-day self-portrait workshop this past August 8-10. The workshop was a part of Fawundu’s artist residency at the African Artist Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria.

She began the workshop by introducing and exploring the self portraiture of other women photographers like Renee Cox, Mfon Essien, Helen Amouzou and Majida Khattari as well as her own work.

These examples proved to be perfect inspiration for the women in the workshop as it sparked their creative eye and they set out to create their own projects.

(via okayafrica)

"oh dear, men do not say goodbye, they phase you out. ignore you and ignore you, until you demand a..."

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:25:40 -0400

“oh dear, men do not say goodbye, they phase you out. ignore you and ignore you, until you demand a declaration of hate.”

- joan to peggy. venus to psyche.
Speak on it

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele: Beyond Jay Z and Bey

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:41:08 -0400

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele: Beyond Jay Z and Bey:

lumumbabandele:

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele

The recent interview with the legendary Harry Belafonte in Hollwoodreporter.com, has caused a bit of a stir. Interestingly, the controversy wasn’t about Mr. Belafonte’s identification of capitalism as “our enemy”, or because of his belief that a Mitt Romney…

Self-Portraits by the late Mfon Essien

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:58:34 -0400

Self-Portraits by the late Mfon Essien

Video

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:59:17 -0400

5 minutes ago Joel Mwale - Water No Get Enemy The late Nigerian...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:08:18 -0400

5 minutes ago

Joel Mwale - Water No Get Enemy

The late Nigerian Afro-Beat King Fela Kuti said in song “ Water no get enemy” to describe the omnipotent importance of human life’s most basic commodity, water. But in one rural Kenyan community, clean and affordable drinking water did have an enemy. The local municipality had routinely failed to provide a reliable source of water for Joel Mwale’s community.

After being hospitalized for drinking contaminated water, Mwale was struck with the idea for a business. The 19 year old decided to use his live savings, $95 saved over a period of 8 years, and a bit of basic engineering to launch Sky Drop Enterprises. Mwale built a boar-hole that carried useable groundwater to almost 5,000 households in his community. But he didn’t stop there. Inspired by Coco-Cola’s Disani brand filtered water he stared a bottled water business with the goal of bringing safe and reliable drinking water to even more people in Kenya. Purchasing a tank that collects rain water and then investing in an ultra violet filtration system he opened a small bottling plant and began offering his Sky Drop filtered water to the public for almost half the market price.

With ingenuity, love for community and hard work Joel Mwale’s business continues to grow employing dozens of his neighbors.

He says, “Information is available through technology, and we are a generation that is more empowered than any other generation I think our level of responsibility is also the highest. When you look at how the youth are engaging themselves young people have stopped saying the government will do something . People are now taking their own initiative to start their own business to solve the challenges in our communities.”

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kayobi: Lagos by air - Mega City #lagos #lasgidi #smwlagos...

REVOLUTIONARY LOVE

africaisdonesuffering: Women in Africa and the Diaspora: “Waist...

SXSW 2013 PANEL: African or Bust! Content Monetization,...

"It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls – especially when it’s..."

thefader: GEN F: A*M*E Seventeen-year-old Amy Kabba paces the...

anotherafrica: Vintage Album Artwork | Pop graphics for Sudan’s...

thatonesuheirhammad: cosmic water spirit. congo bark cloth....

Dont Rape.

aisaestelle: Na you sabi Dusty foot

faderstyle: MICHELLE OBAMA DRAG Boundaries need not be kept.

fotojournalismus: A girl walks past election posters for...

Photo

warsan is elsewhere.: how i take care of myself.

Delphine Fawundu led a group of 5 burgeoning female Nigerian...

"oh dear, men do not say goodbye, they phase you out. ignore you and ignore you, until you demand a..."

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele: Beyond Jay Z and Bey

Self-Portraits by the late Mfon Essien

Video

5 minutes ago Joel Mwale - Water No Get Enemy The late Nigerian...

Joel Mwale - Water No Get Enemy

thefader: GEN F: AME Seventeen-year-old Amy Kabba paces the...