UK Launch of Fiat 500 by Gucci

Talk about Riding in Style...I'd like the sound of that, even my car is Gucci..lol

The UK launch of  FIAT 500 by Gucci, a special edition FIAT 500 customized by Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini in collaboration with FIAT’s Centro Stile on June in London, England.

Mario Epanya's Winkler Magazine...

I love Mario Epanya's work to bits! And now so we can enjoy his work some more, he has come up with an Online Magazine called Winkler Dedicated to African women... I am not only inlove but obsessed with this online Read!

Winkler is a beauty magazine dedicated to black women worldwide. It’s about the evolution of Black beauty in the media and my goal is to be among the high fashion and beauty editorials recognized worldwide like Glamour, Elle or Allure .
If you havent gone through it go to  Winkler
or have a peak below

Open publication - Free publishing - More africa

 Read His Interview Below

Any chance we might see your magazine in stores worldwide?

Hopefully! Working on that. First, I want to see the evolution of the magazine online, to see how the community and women receive it and if the subscribers and readers ask for a print version in a few months or years ,then we’ll make a print version .

Why are you considering moving to SA?

Well I got a few people working in the fashion industry ,models and photographers who told me that South Africa is more open minded to Black publications and that it won’t be much of a struggle to source investment for the magazine .The fashion and beauty industry is growing and South Africa will become, in a few years, a fashion city capital just Milan, London or Paris and it’s time to have some contacts over there .

Will that not affect your business or magazine?

Hopefully not. For issue 2, Innocent Ndlovu, a South African journalist collaborated with me and wrote two articles for Winkler. He is an adventure I know ,but I made the same adventure ten years ago when I decided to move to Paris.

What have you heard about South Africa?

A lot of nice stuff about the fashion industry. Professionalism, multi-cultural and a chance to get more jobs in the SA beauty industry. But I also heard about protectionism. I read in some blogs that the South African government doesn’t give a lot of work permits to foreigners and weird things about the police behaviour to foreigners, but sometimes it’s better to experience yourself.

Why are you tired of Paris?

Don’t get me Wrong , I ADORE Paris ,it’s such a beautiful place to live, my life is here and there’s also a lot of creativity here . A Llot of people may not understand my reaction but as a Parisian , it’s sad to say but the fashion industry here is very conservative and not open to new talents and multiculturalism is a “forbidden word. The Parisian fashion industry, I’m afraid that in a few years Paris will be out of fashion because they are not” sensible to the evolution of the world “.

Source:Juicy Africa

Our Path To Tanzania...

Our Path to Tanzania' is a film that underscores many of learning opportunities that International school links can offer to the global communities. 
And basically a couple of things to take note of before ur off to Tzee...like never ever drink Tap Water in Tanzania...it will cost you dearly..


The film begins with stories about establishing the link between sister schools; George Abbot School in Guildford, UK and Mukidoma Schools in Arusha, Tanzania. The film progresses into telling about preparations undertaken by a team of Students and staffs from George Abbot School in order to meet native Tanzanians during July 2011expedition.


source:Urban Pulse

The Forgotten Speech...

I always say, this man was a great leader... Hats Off.

This Speech was sent to me by friend via souce JamiiForum

In the first part, a group of university students (almost 400 of them) from DUC (before it became UDSM) marched to the Statehouse protesting the National Service arrangement which they considered to be exploitative in nature. Without fear or excuses Nyerere and his Cabinet were prepared to meet them. Force was not used to stop them. 

The incident is recorded in “We Must Run, While They Walk, pp 26-32- a book by William Edgett Smith” Digital transcription is mine; all italics and brackets original. I will have a Pdf file with the complete text next time. 

THE SECOND PART
“My salary! Do you know what my salary is? Five Thousand damned shillings a month! Five thousand damned shillings in a poor country! The poor man who gets two hundred shillings a month - do you know how long it’s going to take him to earn my damned salary? Twenty-five years! It’s going to take the poor man in this country, who earns two hundred shillings a month, twenty-five years to earn what I earn in a year. 
“The damned salaries! These are salaries which build this kind of attitude in the educated people, all of them! All of them! Me and you! We belong to a class of exploiters! I belong to your class! Where I think three hundred and eight pounds a yeas is a prison camp! Is forced labor! We belong to this damned exploiting class on top. Is this the country we fought for? Is this what we worked for? In order to maintain a class of exploiters on top?

“I agree with you! We are paying too much! Everybody in this damned country is paid too much- except the poor peasant. I’ll slash the salaries! I agree with you! I’m glad you’re so concerned about this country! Forced labor? Where do we get this language? The day I can give every worker of Tanzania three hundred and eighty pounds, we will have worked a revolution that has not been worked anywhere in Africa. The day that I succeed in giving everybody in this damned country three hundred pounds, we shall have worked a terrific revolution; we could stand all of us on top of Kilimanjaro and proclaim the Tanzanian revolution!

“Forced labor! Go, go in the classroom, go and don’t teach. This we shall county as National Service for three hundred and eighty pounds a year. You are right salaries are too high. Everybody in this country is demanding a pound of flesh. Everybody except the poor peasant. How can he demand it? He doesn’t know the language. Even in his own language he can’t speak of forced labor. What kind of country are we building?” He fairly screeched the words.

“I have accepted what you said. And I am going to revise salaries permanently. And as for you, I am asking you to go home. I’m asking all of you to go home. Rashid! You are responsible to see that they go home.”

There was mild applause, presumably from those students who didn’t realize what had happened. He expelled them, three hundred and ninety three in all and sent them home. all of them
 ha ha ha ha!

Boxing Kitten Fall/Winter 2011 Collection

Boxing Kitten  has done it again with its vintage vibrant West African inspired Ankara fabrics, this time paired with vintage silhouettes, i love how they  brought them back Vintage meets Ankara for  Fall/Winter 2011 Collection...

Louis Vuitton Spring 2012 Collection

I seriously need to get these Maasai material garments real soon coz Im seeing them everywhere in the fashion world, from Thakoon and now to Louis Vuitton runways...

Ps.. Flashback to Ally Rehmtullah's 2009 Collection....

Made in Ethiopia: The Holland Car

Great to see Africa (Ethiopia to be specific) making cars!

When Tadesse Tessema’s company first started to sell its locally assembled cars in Ethiopia, one of the biggest challenges was to convince the public that its vehicles were of the same quality as the brands imported from the west.

Our main achievement is that we have been able to change the minds of the people,” says Tessema, general manager of Ethiopia’s first indigenous vehicle assembly company Holland Car.Africans themselves need to grab hold of the opportunities on the continent. “Investors from Asia are coming to invest money here, while we Africans still sit down and wait,” Tessema notes.

He believes that the African diaspora can play a significant part in the continent’s transformation. “If 10% of these people can come back to Africa, most of the problems in Africa would be solved. Governments have to give the opportunities . . . and incentives to bring these people back . .

All Holland Car’s models are named after rivers in Ethiopia,

with names such as Abay, Tekeze and Shebelle. Tessema says this is to emphasize the cars’ local credentials and to foster a sense of national pride.

Plans are also underway to roll-out a biogas powered car. The goal is to not only assemble the vehicle, but to also produce the gas itself. Holland Car is, however, seeking further government assistance before going into full-scale production.

All car parts are imported from China and assembled at a facility outside the capital. The Daily Monitor newspaper earlier reported that Holland Car used to import parts from Chinese auto manufacturer Lifan Motors. This partnership was later ended and the company currently works with JAC Motors.
At first the assembly plant was only able to turn out one car per day, but following additional investments and facility improvements, the company currently has the capacity to produce up to six units. Tessema wants to increase this to ten cars per day. He also has plans to go from assembling cars to manufacturing the parts as well.

Born in Ethiopia, Tessema lived in the Netherlands for many years. During his occasional visits to Ethiopia he discovered a big demand for cars. So he created a company which exported used vehicles from the Netherlands to Ethiopia. After a while he, however, spotted an opportunity for local assembly. “I thought, why don’t I go back and assemble new cars in my country.”

To access funds for the new business, Tessema went into a joint venture with a Dutch firm, Trento BV Engineering. This allowed Holland Car to obtain additional funding from the Dutch government. After launching operations in 2005, the company in 2006 celebrated its first assembled car during a ceremony at the Hilton hotel in Addis Ababa.

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