The narrative about ‘owning the curves’ in fashion seems to be flying high as plus-sized models with super-curves walked the 2017 Glitz Africa Fashion Week (GAFW2017) catwalk for the first time. The models stormed the runway on the second day of the show, which started on October 6 amid rapturous shouts and applause. They were… Read More Glitz Africa Fashion Week features Super-curvy Models on 2017 Runway
Celebrate fashion from across Africa and the diaspora in a day of workshops, talks and catwalk shows atFashion Undressed with MasterCard. See established and emerging designers from across the African continent take to the runway in#AfricanSquad or steal the limelight and wear your heritage with pride in our People’s Catwalk. Learn about African crafting techniques and create… Read More FASHION UNDRESSED WITH MASTERCARD AT AFRICA UTOPIA
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Are you a fashion designer or fashion business who is interested in setting up your fashion business sourcing and/or producing in Africa? Are you curious about how to make it happen sustainably and ethically? Maybe you are preparing to showcase at upcoming fashion shows or need help understanding how to get your product into shops?… Read More Fashion Africa Business (F.A.B.) Workshops
Four years ago, Funlayo Alabi’s business, Shea Radiance, was riding high — and then it almost went under. The Baltimore company she co-founded with her husband, Shola, was selling its all-natural skin and hair care products in hundreds of Target stores, in what seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime. But the demands of supplying and… Read More Funlayo Alabi: A Female Entrepreneur Rises From Defeat
Last month, I visited my village of Ovim in Southeastern Nigeria. I met a painter who also manufactures the paint he uses for his work. According to him, his business nearly collapsed early in the year when he could not access the foreign exchange market to import the raw materials required for his paint production.… Read More Why African Entrepreneurship Is Booming
Whether it’s through hip-hop, R&B, Top 40 radio or Internet memes, Drake is a ubiquitous presence on our cultural landscape. Yet for all of his inescapable hits in the past few years (“Hotline Bling,” “Started From the Bottom,” guesting on Rihanna’s “Work,” to name a few), it was only in May that Drake finally topped… Read More Is this the year that African music will conquer the United States?
A documentary of the singer’s journey back to his childhood home in Enugu will also be filmed. Nigerian-American singer, Jidenna is set to tour Nigeria and South Africa in late August as part of the promotion for his forthcoming debut album, Long Live The Chief. The singer, popular for his hit, ‘Classic Man’, will embark… Read More U.S. Singer Jidenna to Tour in Africa
Join EXPERIENCE AFRICA this fall in New York City as we present: EXPERIENCE AFRICA ART COLLECTORS SERIES Collecting African, Caribbean and African American Art: A Seminar by Loris Crawford, REGISTER HERE This series will introduce novices and beginners to the process of building an art collection and keys to collecting art by Africans, Caribbean and African American… Read More Collecting African, Caribbean and African American Art: A Seminar by Loris Crawford
Experience Africa presents SAYCON SENGBLOH moderated by George Kevin Jordan from Shadow and Act REGISTER HERE. Saycon Sengbloh is an award winning actress who delivers sensational performance with her incomparable gift for dramatic storytelling and soaring vocal prowess. She is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her craft – both as an actress and… Read More Experience Africa presents SAYCON SENGBLOH (from Eclipsed) moderated by George Kevin Jordan from Shadow and Act
