CurlCap has become the first Black woman-owned hair apparel brand to be licensed to use Disney’s logos and characters on its merchandise. The company, founded by Britney Sadé, makes satin-lined ball caps designed to accommodate natural curly hair with an open back. CurlCaps with Mickey and Minnie ears are now available for purchase. WDW News Today reports that there are three Disney design options. “The first is an entirely solid black hat with Mickey ears and Mickey’s face embroidered on the side. “A similar design has a red brim with white dots like Mickey’s shorts. Finally, there is a Minnie…
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The hope of former African Footballer of the Year, Didier Drogba, to become president of Côte d’ Ivoire’s football federation (FIF) has been dashed. Drogba, who boasts of an impressive record as a player for both club and country, had promised a ‘Renaissance’ in Ivorian football if elected but the Chelsea legend did not make it to the second round of voting before being ousted. “I can bring the change that the federation and the clubs need. Football isn’t rising the way it should and the way we want it in Ivory Coast.” Drogba had told the BBC in the…
In the last thirty years, the presence of African Christians in the West has attracted significant study. The focus has been on what may be called the new African diaspora: that is, Africans who have come to the West since about seventy years ago (as opposed to those who were brought to the West through the trans-Atlantic slave trade). With the rise of Africa as the continent with the most Christians in the world, the study of African Christianity has included not only the Christianity in the continent but also its forms in the new African diaspora. A central question…
In December of 2007, delegates of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), gathered in the midsize city of Polokwane in the far northeast province of Limpopo. The city of a little more than 100,000 residents had been called Pietersburg for much of the 20th century, named after an Afrikaner “voortrekker” leader in the late 19th century. The city had once been home to a notorious British concentration camp of some 4,000 Afrikaners between 1899 and 1902. Now, under a democratic dispensation inaugurated by the first non-racial, universal elections in 1994, the city has been renamed in Sotho…
The Kenyatta family is trying to falsely reinsert itself into Mau Mau history, and thereby bask in its legacy, with ahistorical claims that both Jomo and his widow Mama Ngina fought in the forests. Mama Ngina is seen shaving the dreadlocks of a nonogenarian former forest fighter, while curiously adorned in Maasai dress. What can it all mean? The reality is that Jomo Kenyatta was never in Mau Mau, let alone spent any time in the forests. He spent much of his life post-1951 (the year Mau Mau began, although its seeds were planted earlier) railing against Mau Mau, which…
Along the Zambezi’s route to the Indian Ocean, where it feeds the man-made Lake Kariba, is Binga district, Zimbabwe, formed to house the Tonga people who were forcefully removed when their land was flooded to build the Lake. In Sebungwe Mouth, one of the villages in Binga, Brandina Mundimba is using a reed known locally as malala to weave a basket which, when complete, will be transported to the market along with the rest and sold for 1500 Zimbabwean dollars (Z$) ($4). This is how 40-year-old Mundimba and the other members of her fishing cooperative have been scraping together a…
The loss of a loved one is one of the most painful experiences in life. It leaves a hole in your heart, a longing that cannot be filled. When we lose loved ones, we hope that they are in a better place. We hope that one day we will join them. In cases of the old or terminally ill passing away, we speak about them finally resting. And while losing someone is never easy, it’s almost always tougher when someone dies young or unexpectedly. So we attempt to soften the grief with speak of them going to a better place,…
Clay as a material is malleable, thus it is able to be shaped in the artist’s vision. So, pottery can become a personal or political manifestation. As well as the aesthetic heritage, pottery is a record of the world around it, the zeitgeist and the society it was borne from. This is why recording and archiving these works are not only important for the art world but vital for history. Christabel Johanson on Black Women Ceramics Two Legged Vessels by Bisila Noha, Credit Thomas Broadhead for OmVed Gardens Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art Body Vessel Clay. Black Women,…
No outfit is complete without footwear. Whether you want to walk across the street or go to the office, you need footwear to protect your feet. While the number one job of footwear is to protect the feet, it offers its users beauty and style. Most people can analyze your fashion sense through your footwear. What do you wear? We can hear you call the names of many foreign footwear brands. However, Africa has Africans making our product with their awesome footwear. Most of the local shoe markers have made it easier to buy made-in-African footwear at an affordable rate.Many people…
The ABCF Active Day is an annual fundraiser in aid of our Education, Community Empower and Conservation projects in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Botswana. The Cape Town event will consist of: The Green Point park run (5KM park run/walk) at 08:00 A post-workout coffee and treat at the cricket club clubhouse Prizes and giveaways To receive 300 Discovery vitality points for participating in the park run, click on the link below to register with the park run: https://www.parkrun.co.za/register/?section=form&eventName=greenpoint&e=greenpoint The funds raised through this event will go towards our Maunga Clinic, Kachikau Primary School Disability Unit, and the Ranger Program projects. …