When W Magazine Went to Johannesburg
They used the same examples every trendy Western fashion or pop culture publication do, when they run special issues on South Africa.
Fashion
Interrupting Paris Fashion Week
A group of black women, from Africa and its diaspora, decide to mess with Paris Fashion Week. Was it worth it? Did anyone care?
Township Life Has Never Looked So Glam
Solange Knowles is the second major UK or American artist to shoot a music video in Cape Town in so many months.
Remixed Metaphors
Guinean-Swiss photographer Namsa Leuba deftly "merges" aesthetic traditions.
The abundance of black fashion
Senegalese designer, Adama Paris, organizer of Dakar Fashion Week, gives her opinion on the representation of African designs and designers in the fashion industry.
Livetweet Recap: NYT (and Vogue Italia) “Rebrands Africa” (again)
From a series of tweets I did on the New York Times story “Rebranding Africa” which
Nigeria Fashion Week
Probably to coincide with New York Fashion Week, Vice released the Nigerian installment of its “Fashion
Africa gets new football kits
Puma created new kits for African teams ahead of the 2012 African Cup of Nations. At first sight, it looks exciting. Up close, the designers stuck to conservative.
Music Break. Alec Lomami
Dapper Congolese-American rapper Alec Lomami (interviewed here by MTV Iggy) shouts outs his old hometown Kinshasa over
Corner Shops and Arcade Games
In hoods in 1980s South Africa, 20-cent pieces were used to play the old bootleg arcade games at corner stores. It also inspired a clothing label.
Mad Max in Botswana
Botswana has a thriving heavy metal scene. These metal heads have their own specific style too.
ZAM Goes International
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEe96sQsRg4&hd=1 You know we like the Dutch magazine ZAM. The promised English edition is (almost) here.
'Nigeria's first fashion magazine'
Part promotion, part video profile of “Mania,” a new Nigerian magazine billed as a first of
Photography: Yamandú Roos
Security Guard, World Cup, 2010, Soweto, South Africa.
The supermodel’s revenge
Charles Taylor’s trial at the International Criminal Court is verging on the trivial.
Out of Africa Redux
Bono and Ali Hewson, his wife, wants to revitalize apparel manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa by manufacturing the clothes from their brand in China and Peru.
Vogue Africa
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGqwvyugbZI&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Video of legendary 1960s model Bethann Hardison interviewing Togolese-American model David Agbodji for Vogue Italia.
Nairobi Style
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