Made In Afrika

abstrackafricana: showslow: Nicole Lavelle (via TumbleOn)

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:01:24 -0400

abstrackafricana:

showslow:

Nicole Lavelle

(via

TumbleOn)

Moroccan People, photographed by Leila Alaoui

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:00:59 -0400

Moroccan People, photographed by Leila Alaoui

afro-politaine: dynamicafrica: RIP to legendary Tanzanian...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:02:12 -0400

afro-politaine:

dynamicafrica:

RIP to legendary Tanzanian Taarab singer Fatma binti Baraka, popularly known as Bi Kidude, who passed away on April 17th, 2013, at her home on the island of Zanzibar. She is believed to have surpassed 100 years of age.

As a child, she was singled out for her fine voice and, in the 1920s, sang locally with popular cultural troupes, combining an understanding of music with an equally important initiation into traditional medicine.

At age 13, after a forced marriage she fled Zanzibar to mainland Tanzania. Bi Kidude toured mainland East Africa with a taarab ensemble, visiting the major coastal towns and inland as far west as Lake Victoria and Tanganyika.

She walked the length and the breadth of the country barefoot in the early 1930s fleeing another unhappy marriage. In the 1930s she ended up in Dar es Salaam where she sang with Egyptian Taarab group for many years. In the 1940s she returned to Zanzibar where she acquired a small mud hut to be her home.

She is known for her role in the Unyago movement which prepares young Swahili women for their transition through puberty. She is one of the experts of this ancient ritual, performed only to teenage girls, which uses traditional rhythms to teach women to pleasure their husbands, while lecturing against the dangers of sexual abuse and oppression.

(source)

dianepatrice: Christian church, Dogon, Mali.

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:01:03 -0400

dianepatrice:

Christian church, Dogon, Mali.

sfilate: Hanaa Ben Abdesslem photographed by Hans Feurer for...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:01:28 -0400

sfilate:

Hanaa Ben Abdesslem photographed by Hans Feurer for Antidote Magazine: The Street Issue

Photo

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:01:08 -0400

Scariest Shoes of All Time “Scary Beautiful” shoes...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:11:00 -0400

Scariest Shoes of All Time “Scary Beautiful” shoes (by Zuma Swarovski)

Scary Beautiful

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:08:13 -0400

Scary Beautiful

Finally got tickets!!

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:00:08 -0400

Finally got tickets!!

Cinderella is Pissed

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:57:50 -0400

Cinderella is Pissed:

A prominent South African, his name is unimportant, has yet again lit up the local blogosphere by trivializing sexual violence. He did so by describing gang rape as a free-for-all picnic and then b…

kingxnova: South Africans: Cadbury Coca Cola Frito...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 06:32:57 -0400

kingxnova:

South Africans:

Cadbury

Coca Cola

Frito Lay

Kelloggs

Knorr

Lipton

Minute Maid

Pepsi

Pillsbury

Pringle

Procter and Gamble

Unilever

lilgodzilla:

companies that purchase monsanto products. an upsettingly long list of very big corporations that each include countless products we eat on a regular basis (and vegetarians, don’t be sanctimonious morningstar and V8 are on there too).

rainwood: Indigenous people of Brazil trying to prevent their...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:29:27 -0400

rainwood:

Indigenous people of Brazil trying to prevent their eviction from an old indigenous museum which they have been living in for the past 7 years.

On March 22nd all of the inhabitants and their supporters were forcibly removed or arrested.

The building is being destroyed to make a parking lot :(

bee-diamondhead: REALLLY LIKE THESE NINA NOLTE PAINTINGS FROM...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:25:48 -0400

bee-diamondhead:

REALLLY LIKE THESE NINA NOLTE PAINTINGS FROM HER ‘THE BEST IS YET TO COME SERIES.

b-sama: Featured: cinder&skylark Michelle Oberholzer is a...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:00:52 -0400

b-sama:

Featured: cinder&skylark

Michelle Oberholzer is a lover of style, music, creativity and a student of the deeper meaning of life. She is also the lady behind the cinder&skylark lens who recently left her corporate fashion job to shoot and blog about SA street style full-time

"Ek besef … wel deeglik dat min Afrikaanssprekendes tussen 18 en 25 jaar enigsins begryp wat ek..."

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:40:02 -0400

“Ek besef … wel deeglik dat min Afrikaanssprekendes tussen 18 en 25 jaar enigsins begryp wat ek skryf, gewoon omdat die woordeskat van Afrikaans, soos wat dit tans nog gestandaardiseer is, so radikaal aan die krimp is. Min jong Afrikaanssprekendes kan ’n sintakties verwikkelde saamgestelde sin vlot lees of begryp. Ek dink dit geld ander tale ook. Dit het te doen met die globale terugval na ’n laer mensagtige staat via die slimfone en ander elektroniese apparaat, en die voorkeur wat Facebook-statusveranderings geniet bo ’n gedig of ’n kortverhaal.”

- Marlene van Niekerk, Die Burger, 18 Junie, p 10 (via ap1pel)

bee-diamondhead: just-let-em-eat-cake: “Sibling-hood”, 2013,...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:00:22 -0400

bee-diamondhead:

just-let-em-eat-cake:

“Sibling-hood”, 2013, art by Folasade

The look on this young un’s face just makes me miss my brother so so much. Grinning foolishly with him is what I miss the most about being away from home.

This makes me miss my brothers too

arabbara: Masaai, Tanzania

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:58:43 -0400

arabbara:

Masaai, Tanzania

Photo

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:00:59 -0400

Vanessa German I am absolutely in love with these dolls!

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:04:38 -0400

Vanessa German I am absolutely in love with these dolls!

cinekenya: Afronauts is a pre-thesis film by talented filmmaker...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:01:07 -0400

cinekenya:

Afronauts is a pre-thesis film by talented filmmaker Frances Bodomo.

It tells an alternative history of the 1960s Space Race; it’s July 16th 1969 the night of the moon landing. As America prepares to send Apollo 11 to the moon, a rag-tag group of exiles in the Zambian desert are trying to beat America to the same destination.

This project is based on a true story. In 1964, dreams of space travel led science school teacher Edward Makuka Nkoloso to found a National Space Academy of Science, Space Research, and Astronomical Research in an old farmhouse outside of Lusaka. Nkoloso was so serious about the mission, he applied for a £7,000,000 grant from U.N.E.S.C.O. which never came through.

He gathered together a disparate crew of a 17-year-old girl named Matha and two cats. He trained his potential astronauts by rolling them down hills in 44-gallon oil drums or cut the rope of a swing at its highest point to simulate weightlessness. We do not know what became of them, other than that Matha became pregnant and was taken away by her parents.

Colour photographs are from a Cristina de Middel project via African Digital Art

Black & White are from Afronauts.