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The Sartorialist + South Africa
Recently, The Sartorialist visited South Africa for the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Africa. During his time in South Africa, he captured images of style in Johannesburg and Soweto, applying the Satorialist filter to the African style landscape. I am quite late on this as Fashion Week Africa took place in late October, nearly 3 weeks […]
South African Harmonies & Sounds of Summer
July 2, 2011
I’ve always loved the harmonies to the Kirk Franklin produced track “Be Like Him” performed by One Nation Crew. Something about South African harmonies makes me deliriously happy. This may be in part due to the visual of high-kicking white-sneakered members of Ladysmith and the Black Mambaz0 that always pops into my head. Ladysmith and […]
Curly Africana – Akuol du Mobior
May 3, 2011
I’m putting up this post on South African model, Akuol du Mobior, for a somewhat narcissistic reason: I think we look a bit similar! I’m certainly not model-skinny and my hair is not as thick (tear/sad face) and legs not quite as model-long. Also, when I drop a few pounds my cherub-like cheeks dissolve to […]
PopAfricana + Brenda Fassie
January 2, 2011
Opening the 2011 With a Bit of Fun Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years! While enjoying my last few days of holiday, I came across this short clip Ms. Elewa of Pop’Africana made of Nigerian model Joan Caven (of Cranberry) dancing to South African pop legend, Brenda Fassie. A bit of pan-African […]
Curly Africana – Black Venus
November 30, 2010
Saartjie Baartman – Curly Africana via South Africa, Netherlands, England & France Directed by Cesar award-winning Tunisian filmaker/actor, Abdellatif Kechiche, and starring Yahima Torres, La Venus Noire (2009) [The Black Venus] is the subject of this Curly Africana. The film tells the incredibly sad story of Sawtche/Saartjie Baartman/The Venus of Hottentote, a South African woman who […]
Curly Africana – Gugu Mbatha-Raw
September 25, 2010
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Actress – Curly Africana via South Africa and England She’s in J.J. (Felicity, Star Trek, Lost) Abrams’ Undercovers, a take on the husband and wife as spies dynamic of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, together with Boris Kodjoe (Soul Food) as part of NBC’s fall lineup. I’m only […]
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