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Black Stars Past & Present :Free Trade & Sankofa:CHIEF ALFRED SAM & Adwoa Adu

Black Stars Past & Present :Free Trade & Sankofa:CHIEF ALFRED SAM & Adwoa Adu

Thanks to the Thoughts of The Ghetto Intellectual, I have been put on to two more natives of the Black Star nation of Ghana who represent our past & future greatness in…

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March 2011: L’Officiel Paris Takes Beyonce Back To Her African Roots in Black Face?

Ok where do I start but to say this is getting so old that there is no way anyone including Beyonce, even if she is really dumb as rocks wouldn’t have known that this would…

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Fashionably Black: A Celebration of Global African Flyness!

Fashionably Black: A Celebration of Global African Flyness!

It seems there’s always so much press, uproar & hoopla when some crazy ass editor lacking creativity & vision decides to geniusly put  White models in Black face in a by any means

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Global Fusion Style : Artistic Men Who Show Their Fashionable Love for Women, Mcqueen, Ford, Tlale!

Global Fusion Style : Artistic Men Who Show Their  Fashionable Love for Women, Mcqueen, Ford, Tlale!

Sometimes only a man can dress a woman & most of the time a gay man does it best. For all of you heteros who wonder why so many women love & covet their gay…

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Celebrating The Black Girls Who Taught Me How To Rock!

Celebrating The Black Girls Who Taught Me How To Rock!

Reminiscing & missing the Black Star nation, I indulged in conversation with my elders AKA seniors as they told stories of the days when they lived in the same complex as Meriam Makeba- African immigrants…

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Made In Africa: Taking Back Our Culture-Where The Fruit Meets Its Roots!

Made In Africa: Taking Back Our Culture-Where The Fruit Meets Its Roots!

It seems that Africa in general & African designers in particular are finally realizing that culture vultureism has gotten out of control, to a point where we have blindly lost our culture by having it…

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Made In Africa: Protecting The African Textile Industry!

Made In Africa: Protecting The African Textile Industry!

As Nigeria, Africa’s richest & most populous nation embarks on its 50th Anniversary of Independence on October 1st , Nigerians & the rest of Africa should stand up to their governments…

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Halle Berry Is the First Black Woman to Appear on Vogue’s September Issue Since 1989

Hmmm, let’s see Halle Berry is the first Black woman to appear on Vogue’s September Issue since the 1989 cover with Naomi Campbell -YAWN!  Frankly I don’t  give a damn. Sorry, but I just can’t get…

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Africans On The Rise: Nigerian Designer Bunmi Olaye Commisioned By Firts Lady Michelle Obama?

Africans On The Rise: Nigerian Designer Bunmi Olaye Commisioned By Firts Lady Michelle Obama?

With confidence & a plan anything can happen! Bunmi Olaye, the Nigerian born English designer of the Bunmi Koko label is the embodiment of that truth to power as she took the initiative…

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Naomi Campbell: Slapped with Subpoena for Receiving Blood Diamonds from Charles Taylor: Is Any Black Woman Worth The Protection Of So Called Honorable Men?

Naomi Campbell: Slapped with Subpoena for Receiving Blood Diamonds from Charles Taylor: Is Any Black Woman Worth The Protection Of So Called Honorable Men?

It’s easy to get bedazzled by the spectacle of tempestuous supermodel Naomi Campbell testifying against a power-hungry dictator about a pouch of mysterious blood diamonds delivered in the dark of night by some henchman

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