With everyone’s interest suddenly piquing on our continent, we figure you’re probably out there Googling like crazy, trying to step up your cool with Africa knowledge. Well we’re here to increase your appetite with five blogs you need in your life. These guys do the dirty work so you don’t have to, bringing you everything »
Column: Secret Diary of a New Business Surviving Nigeria Start my own Business, or Die Trying… Ok so… I remember my aunt telling me there were three things in life you could never save up enough money to do: One, get married. Two, raise children. Three, die. She believed these were things you let »
Column: Diary of a new Business surviving Nigeria Ok so… I remember my aunt telling me there were three things in life you could never save up enough money to do: One, get married. Two, raise children. Three, die. She believed these were things you let take their natural cause and then the money »
A couple of years ago one of the finest thinkers, Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah, in the African blogosphere provided us with a detailed exposé on “Ghana Must Go”. Koranteng’s article was inspired by Marc Jacob’s 2007 collection for Louise Vuitton. Louise Vuitton’s use of the ubiquitous “Ghana Must Go” material for his rather expensive designer bags triggered »
Africa is synonymous with wild life and natural dense vegetation found in very few other places. Most people these days just hop on a plane to Kenya or South Africa to see some of the worlds most amazing animals in the wild. Are you wondering then why any one would want to create a 112 »
Achebe writes spare, elegant sentences in English but it is a Nigerian English and often, more specifically, an Igbo English. All three novels are filled with direct translations from the Igbo, resulting in expressions like “still carrying breakfast” and “what is called ‘the box is moving?’” as well as in laugh-out-loud lines, especially for an »
The African Nations Cup held in Angola has now ended. The FIFA World Cup is a few weeks away. The question most football pundits are asking is. Are any of the African sides good enough to make a significant impression at the world cup? The widespread buoyancy and hopefulness by which Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast »
To Ghanaians they are called Chichinga sellers, to Swahili speakers they are Mishkaki sellers, to Nigerians they are Suya sellers and to French Africa they are simply brochette vendors. North Africans prefer lamb and kidney whilst West Africans and the rest of Africa are beef, goat, mutton, chicken, gizzard and kidney connoisseurs. The skewered meat is »
Stephen Burks was commisioned by patrizia moroso to design and curate the m’afrique exhibition, held at the moroso showroom during milan design week. For his research he travelled to the African city of Dakar to understand the production process of furniture making, work with local artisans and buy the Sengalese and Mali fabrics, which covers all the »
