Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
Everybody’s trying to rebrand Africa, and it isn’t going so well. Vogue Italia’s latest issue — boosted by great billowing gusts of editorial hot air from both the New York Times and the Guardian — is called...
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Dapper Congolese-American rapper Alec Lomami (interviewed here by MTV Iggy) shouts outs his old hometown Kinshasa over a disco beat. Photo Credit: Shako Oteka
Sunday, April 24th, 2011
Colonel Gaddafi’s aide wants to engineer a retrospective of “four decades of superior dress sense” at the Costume Institute’s annual gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in N.Y.C. He’s trying for 2013. Talib, an aide to Mr....
Saturday, February 19th, 2011
Yannick Nyanga’s Tears
19 Nov 2012 at 8:00 am
Ian Kamau
5 May 2010 at 6:00 pm
REVERSE RACISM
1 Dec 2009 at 5:20 am
Another Side of the Story: A Discus...
19 Mar 2013 at 11:28 am
Things we learn from VS Naipaul’s i...
17 Dec 2012 at 6:00 am
In Sudan, women set the spark
25 Jun 2012 at 1:33 pm
What’s the matter with Morocco
19 Feb 2013 at 9:00 am
Philosophy and Dancing Outside the ...
8 Feb 2013 at 9:00 am
Kuduro’s International Wave
24 Dec 2012 at 4:00 am
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
The Sartorialist goes to Johannesburg, and likes what he sees
Scott Schuman, better known for his blog The Sartorialist and as a street style photographer, took some heat after accepting an invitation to Fashion Week Africa in Johannesburg and being underwhelmed by what he saw. Instead he took pictures of South Africans on the street. “Johannesburg,” he said, “reminds me of a lot of cities,