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Tokyo Safari X Another Africa
Another Africa joins New York based artist Mai Ueda for the Tokyo Night Safari party this Thursday night May 13, 2010. The lovely Mai will be hosting a night of African inspired music and images at Tokyo's night spot du jour, Le Baron de Paris. Performances and music by Mai Ueda, Digiki, PMKFA, Cruel & Tender (OK version), Chase wolf.....
Posted in: Music
It Is All A Masquerade
May 7, 2010
New York based photographer Phyllis Galembo has travelled between the Caribbean & West Africa (Benin, Burkino Faso, Nigeria and Sierra Leone) documenting the magnificent costumed world and rituals of The Masquerade. The male-dominated artform is used as a means to illicit awe, inspiration, fear, obedience or to mark momentous occasions such as death, coming of […]
Kalahari Accoutrements
May 5, 2010
It is always great when you hear about good goods, products that inherently in concept and realization are simply just that, good. Jewels of the Kalahari is a fair trade and sustainable accessory collection developed by London-based Gem industry specialist, Anna Haber Jewels of the Kalahari is a fair trade and sustainable accessory collection developed by London-based Gem industry specialist, Anna Haber.
Posted in: Art & Culture, Fashion
Money Matters
May 4, 2010
We can all get a bit jaded with advertising then out of the blue a stealthy idea appears breaking through the white noise, an intelligent disruption. In 2009, South African based ad agency TBWA/Hunt/Lascaris, did just that when they devised The Trillion Dollar campaign.
Posted in: Design
Get Your Hair Did
April 30, 2010
Hair is an art form that has and continues to be an important part of self adornment throughout Africa. In fact, it is even bling at times when used to show social status, wealth and power in a particular society. The intricacies of this world and its techniques include everything from threading, braiding, twisting, cutting to shavin
Give Me A Higher Love
April 29, 2010
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Think Masai warrior doing the Adumu, jump dance x androgynous lean black silhouettes. Lest I say any more, we will let these pictures tell their thousand words.
Posted in: Fashion
This Is Not Fashion
April 29, 2010
Farm, a photographic series by Jackie Nickerson produced during a three year sojourn in Southern Africa that began in 1997. The portrait and landscape photographic series documents the lives of migrant farm workers throughout South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi
Another Africa 
May 10, 2010
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