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Ouaga Fashion Week shows off Africa’s plurality

Events, Fashion & Beauty 2013/06/17 admin FashionGHANA

From 26 to 29 June, Burkina Faso  organizes its first edition of the Ouaga Fashion Week. This fashion event will take place in the countries capital, Ouagadougou. The Ouaga Fashion Week offers not only parades, but also a mega concert, fashion workshops and conferences-debates. Seventeen young African designers (for example Pathé’O, Nkhensani Nkosi  and Ituen Basi) will represent… Continue Reading »

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Africa welcomes mobile music

Music 2013/06/11 admin Tech Central

In the past year, a lot of online mobile music platforms have been launched in Africa. The biggest one is iRoking, a free Nigerian music service. The catalogue of iRoking consists of 35.000 Nigerian songs. The company also manages the YouTube pages of more than 70 artists. CEO Michael Ugwu wants to reach a million YouTube views… Continue Reading »

Textile training

Artistry Egypt trains women to overcome poverty

Stories 2013/06/05 admin Green Prophet

Nonprofit organization Artistry Egypt offers Cairo a new chance by giving textiles trainings to young women. Since the new Egyptian regime, women face a lot of difficulties. Sexual harassment, illiteracy and unemployment rates rise sharply. The Artistry Egypt training helps the participants to overcome poverty. The women who join the program, live in low-income Cairo neighborhoods like… Continue Reading »

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From grandma with love: grandma’s recipe

Stories 2013/05/21 veramolenaar gabriele galimberti

Whose grandmother does not have a recipe that’s so striking for only her? The photographer Gabriele Galimberti pictured them. With a great composition, he manages to get his models pictured comfortably in the safety of their own homes and kitchens. Except for this project on grandmothers and their recipes the photographer also did an eye opening… Continue Reading »

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There’s an African solution for every Dutch puzzle: sex

Stories 2013/05/16 veramolenaar africa is a country

In her latest film, ‘Onder Vrouwen’ (“Among Women”, click to watch it), the Dutch Kim Brand travels to rural Zambia to find out what “liberated, spoiled, but also insecure” Western women can learn from their African counterparts. By participating in rituals, she hopes to answer those types of sex and relationship questions that have puzzled… Continue Reading »

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African comics and animation: Spider Stories

Cartoons, Stories 2013/05/08 veramolenaar africa is a country

Two Nigerian-American brothers John and Charles Agbaje are the owners of The Elite Comics & Art Studio at Central City Tower. To realize their new African inspired animation film they began Kickstarter campaign to fund the development of an 11-minute pilot episode of Spider Stories. The animation is influenced by both Nigerian folktales and modern animated fantasy epics such as… Continue Reading »

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