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10 African fashion influencers you should follow

10 African fashion influencers you should follow

MPHO RANTAO IT is no secret that Africa is home to some of the world’s most fashionable, both in the creation and wearing stylish garments.  One of the most riveting aspects about Africa’s multi-ethnic landscape is that it brings about so many ideas and concepts to conventional fashion terms and inspirations.  Africans, like other indigenous groups around the world, have the ability to make their own traditional attire to be a visionary fashion art piece, styled in their own way.  Influencers like to (and effortlessly do ) mix their own style signatures with global fashion trends, to which some of…
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‘Today it feels good to be an African’

‘Today it feels good to be an African’

THABO MBEKI I am an African.  I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.  My body has frozen in our frosts and in our latter day snows. It has thawed in the warmth of our sunshine and melted in the heat of the midday sun. The crack and the rumble of the summer thunders, lashed by startling lightening, have been a cause both of trembling and of hope.  The fragrances of…
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Happy Africa Day to all of you

Happy Africa Day to all of you

CYRIL RAMAPHOSA LAST week, the media around the world carried heart-rending images of a young boy adrift off the coast of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. He was clinging to a makeshift buoy made of plastic bottles and desperately trying to make it to shore. Over the years we have become accustomed to seeing images of African men, women and children crammed into boats and makeshift rafts trying to reach Europe. According to relief organisations more than 20,000 people have lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean since 2014. As we observe Africa Day tomorrow, these tragic stories remind…
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