Subscribe:
RSS feed
Hair/Style/Life: celebrating African women and natural hair
Browsing All Posts filed under »Ivory Coast«
Five (African) Things: Bobby Womack, Nigerian Statistics, King Sunny Ade, Oroma Elewa and Les Afropéennes
1. Bobby Womack Covers Clash Magazine in Cyrus Kabiru Shades 2. Nigerian Statistics I was looking for a map showing income distribution across Nigeria, something similar to this map of New York (assembled and updated by the good folks at WNYC), when I discovered that (1) the Nigerian government did not have a functioning website […]
Better Know an African City: Mercer Cost of Living Survey 2012
July 1, 2012
Better Know an African City – Mercer Cost of Living Survey 2012 is part of an ongoing series of posts on African cities on Cherchez la Curl. The series aims to collate information on and expose the quirks, infrastructure and beauty of Africa’s cities so as to facilitate discussion that will help their leaders make them […]
Rain Rain Go Away – Swim + Pretty Prints
May 19, 2012
Living in England, summer usually feels like a passing memory even before it’s arrived. A few hours of sunshine followed by extended periods of gloomy grey rain, which while cosy and ideal for snuggling up with a good book, leave me feeling like summer is to be enjoyed in drips (literally). I’m looking forward to […]
Natural Hair is in Fashion
November 2, 2010
From Loza Maleombho New York by Loza Maleombho, designer of the Osun dress (want!). Click here for Loza Maleombho New York on Facebook.
Magic System + Gaou = Happy Friday
October 1, 2010
This.Is.My.Jam Another song that lifts my spirits no matter how dire the situation. Between this and Sunny Ade’s Oba t’aye n’juba*, I’m sorted on the happiness front. For anyone unfamiliar with the awesomeness that is the Ivoirien group Magic System, click here. *Please forgive any misspellings or incorrectly used ligatures. I think NPR’s offering of […]
Natural Art – Clement Oubrerie
June 17, 2010
My love affair with all things French, especially the French language, has a long history. High-school French, college French, summer abroad in France, holidays in France…It’s somewhat sad that I can navigate Paris with far greater ease than I can Ibadan (although my Yoruba still trumps my French). It probably isn’t surprising I first picked […]
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
December 18, 2012
0