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New African Fashion Imagery

Images from New African Fashion, a coffee table book about African fashion

Christie Brown

Jewel by Lisa

Maki Oh

Duro Olowu

Emeka Alams

Tifanny Amber

Eric Raisina

Duro Olowu

What vogue had to say about it: 

Africa and its fertile oasis of vibrant prints and rich colors took pride of place on the list of spring/summer ’12 trends. So in many ways, Helen Jennings’ book, New African Fashion, could not be more timely. It reads like an encyclopedia of sorts, spanning emerging designers worth following (Gloria Wavamunno of Uganda and Maki Oh, from Lagos) and much loved established names (Xuly Bet,Duro Olowu and Ozwald Boateng, among others) across the worlds of ready to wear and accessories.

Consider the tome a culmination of Jennings’ years traversing the continent for her role editing the magazine Arise, a quarterly devoted to contemporary fashion, music and art from Africa. But most importantly, the book makes a good entry point for fashion lovers looking to deepen their knowledge of African fashion further than the big-budget appropriations seen on the runways and the temporal moment they are sure to spark.

The Biggest Beggar in Africa is....

Follow the Yellow Regions

TANZANIA? O_0
I dint even flinch ...but right after Iraq and Afghanistan? But those places had war and stuff...But we did bomb ourselves twice...that counts right?

The American organisation Visual Economics says the once-rich oil exporter Iraq tops the list of beggar nations with donations totalling about $9 billion followed by Afghanistan and Tanzania, whose development alms are nearly $4 billion and $3 billion, respectively, according to 2010 figures.
But the government yesterday questioned the accuracy of the report, saying there were many other countries that received much more in foreign assistance than Tanzania. Finance and Economic Affairs deputy permanent secretary Servacius Likwelile told The Citizen on Sunday that countries like Israel and Egypt receive a substantial amount of assistance from the US annually, and wondered whether the report included military aid.They wondered why, despite the staggering amounts of aid the country has been receiving for five decades, the country remains one of the poorest in the world with a third of the population living below the poverty line.Some attributed the limited value for money on aid to bad governance, a view supported by the 2009 Human Rights Report, which states that “senior government officials estimated that 20 per cent of the government’s budget in each fiscal year was lost to corruption”. [source]