I attended the panel discussion on Helen Jennings’s book “New African Fashion” at the New York Public library the other night. As a great fan of Ghanaian designer Mimi Plange , Somali…
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What Exactly Is New African Fashion?
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Grace in Your Face!
Like the legions of many, I am a Grace Jones fan. There’s just something about Grace Jones that makes you shake your head & want to say “you go Bitch”, in the most lovingly respectful I’m in…
more »Ghana: The World Can’t Seem To Get Enough of the Black Star Shine-Fashion, Film, Sports & Ghanaian People
From fashion to sports, to film, to the people of Ghana , it seems the world just can’t get enough of the Black Star Shine. Ghana keeps it hot as the fire burns…
more »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 practicing the national mantra “Forward…
more »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 necessary desperate attempt to sell…
more »The Sundance Chronicles: What is A Black Film & Is The Black Label Necessary
As more Black films & Black filmmakers converge at Sundance more than ever in a new initiative via Ava Duvernay’s African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement’s efforts for greater focus on the writing, producing, directing & distribution of Black Films,…
more »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 male friends …well it’s for…
more »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 be defined & redefined from…
more »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 toward her dreams instead of…
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