Joie De Vivre SS2011 collection

Tanzanian Stylist and now designer Rio Paul's new collection Joie De Vivre...
 (joy of life/living) is a collection inspired by the wealthy,hard working, fashionista, cosmopolitan woman,who goes for holiday on an island and while there she is the beauty and talk of the town,immensly beautiful,relaxed,humble,chic and fabulous she is..

Details below

a POKER DOT TOP FROM VINTAGE FABRIC $ 50 AND FLAUNCY PLEETED SKIRT WITH A LACE WAISTE DETAIL AT $40

b POKER DOT MADE FROM VINTAGE FABRIC WITH EMBELISH MENTS AND LACE AT $60 AND KHAKI SHORTS WITH LACE AND SILVER STONE DETAILING AT $100

c FLORAL TOP FROM VINTAGE FABRIC WITH LACE DETAILS AT $50 AND KHANGA BEACH SHORTS AT $20

d FLORAL SPRING MAXI SKIRT FROM VINTAGE FABRIC WITH GOLD CHAIN DETAILS ON EMPIRE WAISTE AT $100

e VINTAGE KITENGE FABRIC DRESS WITH LACE,CHAINED AND TEASED BUST AND SHOLDER DETAILS, SILVER STONED WAISTE BELT AND TEASED ORGANZA BOTTOM AT $ 60

f POKER DOT FLAUNCY SIXTIES DRESS FROM VINTAGE FABRIC FOR A NIGHT OUT WITH SLIVER STONED WAISTE BELT AT $ 100

g ROUGH DENIM SOFT JACKET WITH LACE DETAILS AT $70

Fabulous...

Anisa's a Hot Shot  Designer
Fair lady magazine..

Araffa's Fashion/Style Blogger

Im telling you, there musta been something in their water..
lol... Fashion Blogger Araffa-Isabel Mpungwe on Get it Magazine

The football Beast...

Remember the woman I had on here a while ago, the footbal best... she's baaack..in Mwanza this time...


Ohhhh she's a celebrity now...

TalesFromTheHood:Aid Will not Fix Anything...

Aid cannot and will not fix anything.

I don’t mean any of this to sound like I think that aid doesn’t matter. It does.

But over the past two decades I have become convinced that we come to the aid enterprise with too great a sense of self-assurance, with a quantity and quality of confidence not yet rightly earned. Aid cannot and will not fix anything. As humanitarian aid and development workers, we are struggling against forces – economic forces, political forces, social forces – more vast and deep and far reaching than the vast majority of us are aware.

It is hard and uncomfortable, but we have to keep in realistic perspective what we actually can and do bring, and scale our rhetoric – both internal and external – to match. We bring drops of relief in oceans of human suffering. Far too often we simply put band-aids on malignant tumors. And no amount of passion or “getting back to the basics” or being accountable will change that.

And so, while on one hand I understand and even applaud the energetic, entrepreneurial, Obama-innagural-address-esque “Yes we can!” sentiments of both passionate apologetics, and also the  strident, scathing critics of the aid industry alike, it is important to have realistic expectations of what aid can actually accomplish.

Aid is a good thing to do. I fervently believe that. Aid matters. Aid makes a difference. But if you have delusions of grandeur or even delusions of something less than grandeur, understand this: Aid will not fix anything. Aid is “a measure of humanity, always insufficient…” Aid makes incremental, fragile progress, often at great expense. This is not a call for self-flagellation or self-deprecation, but rather a call for confident humility.

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What You didnt Know about Gaddafi

Its been 5 Months and that old guy is still not budging....oh well heres a video of things you didnt know about Gaddafi, I wonder how much Gaddafi paid for this youtube hit...coz there is no way to look at that man in a good light..

From Tanzania With Love

Anna, Dar Es Salaam, I told mom I wanted a camera phone, Nokia...

Behold....The Post-Uprising Egypt

So here is Egypt After the uprising, The Companies Coca Cola and Pepsi are using the postive outcome of the uprising to reach out to the youth... some rili good commercials, Scratch the fact that I dont understand a word, I just got a clear description from Swdenburg

"Make Tomorrow Better." We see the middle class youth of Egypt (the presumed revolutionary subjects) ushering in a new dawn.

Note that the focus is entirely on Cairo's downtown, which has both been a site that the upwardly mobile in neo-liberal Egypt have been fleeing for the upscale satellite suburbs, and which is also the focus of plans for gentrification. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, note the penultimate shot, which shows Tahrir Square, with a crowd (meant, of course, to evoke a demonstration, right before the last shot of a young person drinking a bottle of Coke.

The overall theme is "express yourself." Among the lyrics of the song are the lines, "you are the new, you are the unique," and "tomorrow is waiting for you."

IN Pepsi advert. Again, the middle class youth of Egypt are the subject. They are shown to be adding color (literally) and life to Cairo's downtown (which has, in fact, been renovated in recent years). They possess the trappings of advanced modernity (flat screen televisions, laptops) and also evoke the youth of the revolution. This young woman carries the iconic cellphone (the "twitter revolution") and, yes, yes, you guessed it, she wears the requisite iconic accessory of the revolution, the kufiya.



Source: SwedenBurg