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Featured Friday: Kambua Manundu

Featured Friday: Kambua Manundu

Kambua Manundu is the quintessential gospel music guru. Singling in Swahili and English, her passion for music is infectious.   Her lyrical, soaring, compositions are at once intuitively accessible, melodically sophisticated, and spiritually dazzling. Find and listen to her music at http://www.myspace.com/kambuam This “2008 AFRO FUSION FEMALE ARTISTE OF THE YEAR”  is a very personable [...]

Black Beauty

Black Beauty

Growing up my mother taught me that being black was a gem. It was part of being formed by God. Kissed by the golden sun.  The combination was unbeatable. I said to myself, If I am going to think black, I will think positive about it. Don’t think down on it, or think it is [...]

The Catwalks Finally Have Color

The Catwalks Finally Have Color

The catwalk has been freed to swell with color and majestic graces of diversity.  Even though black people don’t realise this small changes, these are the “I have a dream” speeches coming true. Not only the presentation of blacks on runways but the equal appreciation of beauty in every color. It makes us relate and [...]

Arise Magazine and African Beauties

Arise Magazine and African Beauties

Arise featured these three beauties during the 2008 Africa Rising event.  It was also a  chance to feature  couture/custom pieces by Nigerian designers: The supermodels (Naomi Campbell, Alek Wek & Liya Kebebe) were best dressed by Nigerian designers, Deola Sagoe, Fati Asibelua of MOMO Couture, Lanre DaSilva Ajayi of LDA. As I browsed through the magazine, [...]