In The Streets with Fashion...

We've all heard of the Gentlemen of the Bacongo, we've heard of them before, they're unique style of dressing, explore with colors, designers suits, obsessed with looking good more than anything else and I thought, well...Men can be colorful when they wanna huh.... Intense Fashion in the streets
Congo

Tanzanian Designer Sheria Ngowi

Kanye + frenz

Whatever happened to the Rosewood movement?

Paris

               

 NYC

And I love the Navy Jackets With shorts look

Ps; Real Men Dont wear Pink? Says Who?

 Accessorize...

suspenders are ur friends

Pick a Theme, 

The 30's or the 90's ?

Image Source: Trashness.Com, FyeahAfrican

What's Different About An African Government?

This is was a quite interesting piece I got and found worth sharing, is this the definition  of an African Government? Its quite a harsh definition of an African Government but damn....

Government as it is known in the West does not exist in much of Africa.Leaving aside the democratic requirement that a government must be by the people and for the people, one expects at a minimum a ‘government’ to be responsive to the needs of the people, or at least, to perform some services for its people. But even this most basic requirement for ‘government’ is lacking in Africa.

‘Government’ as an entity is totally divorced from the people, perceived by those running it as a vehicle not to serve but to fleece the people.Dishonesty, thievery, and peculation pervade the public sector. Public servants embezzle state funds; high-ranking ministers are on the take. The chief bandit is the head of state himself.

In Africa, government officials do not serve the people. The African state has been reduced to a mafia-like bazaar, where anyone with an official designation can pillage at will. In effect, it is a ‘state’ that has been hijacked by gangsters, crooks, and scoundrels. They have seized and monopolized both political and economic power to advance their own selfish and criminal interests, not to develop their economies.

Their overarching obsession is to amass personal wealth, gaudily displayed in flashy automobiles, fabulous mansions and a bevy of fawning women. Helping the poor, promoting economic growth or improving the standard of living of their people is anathema to the ruling elites.‘Food for the people!’ ‘People’s power!’ ‘Houses for the masses!’ are simply empty slogans that are designed to fool the people and the international community.

Dr. George Ayittey, economist, author, professor at American University, associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington DC.
Source: The Africa They Never Show YOu

Khomanani-Caring Together

Campaigns from the South African Government, Lets take our relationship to the next level, lets get tested for HIV

Khomanani is the South African government led HIV,& AIDS campaign..real smart actually, When these words 'Lets take our relationship to the next level' come up..I think ... Oh God, he wants her to move in., wait....even bigger, marriage!..

Dakar Fashion Week..

Senegals Moment of Fashion...cant wait to see those Dazzling Designs and designers...

Vault Vids: P-Square on Wendy Willaims

Am I the only one who saw this a little too late?...*grindsteeth* anyway..ineteresting interview and I love these guys... I see they're getting theyr P.diddy on with the shades... Hecka, it was a funny interview lols

Shark Jumps Over Surfer

An incident in 

Florida's New Smyrna Beach

You're a surfer riding some Smyrna waves whats the worse that could happen? Umm I dunno, a 1.2 metre long shark leaps over your head! ..btw..so many hits, but the shark looked like a salmon...overhype

The sea creature in the video is actually spinner shark, and such behaviour is perfectly normal and completely harmless – to humans anyway.

The Florida Museum of Natural History explained: ‘They swim swiftly up in a vertical position to swallow their prey while they spin. Often their momentum causes them to exit the water.’

Spinner sharks, highly valued by fisheries, are on the threatened species list.

NewsWeek Cover

All I have to say is, Really Newsweek? Really? O_o

The cover story, If she were here now... She would 50 if she were alive today, and the graphic artists aged her to 50 and photoshopped her to this image with Kate Middleton.. 

Newsweek is supposed to be a respectable magazine, like TIME, how do they go out and do something like this, how is her family supposed to feel about looking at this image being toyed around with like that years after her death  just sell a mag,plain creepy.
 plus That neck, I would just Sue! They should let this woman, rest in peace.. 

Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown has been on the defensive, making an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to explain.

“Some people think it’s kind of spooky, and should we have done it?” Brown said. “And, you know, others think it’s very effective.”

Brown continued: “I found it really interesting to imagine what she would be doing now.  ... She loved being in the limelight, but she also would’ve really sort of professionalized all that humanitarian giving that she was doing.”


Ps Heres The Cover Story...I still think this was an awful idea.


Diana would have been 50 this month. What would she have been like? Still great-looking: that’s a given. Her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, with her cornflower-blue eyes and striding sexuality, was a handsome woman to the very end. Fashionwise, Diana would have gone the J.Crew and Galliano route à la Michelle Obama, always knowing how to mix the casual with the glam. There is no doubt she would have kept her chin taut with strategic Botox shots and her bare arms buff from the gym. Remarriage? At least two, I suspect, on both sides of the Atlantic. Always so professional herself, she would have soon grown exasperated with Dodi Al-Fayed’s hopeless unreliability. After the breakup I see her moving to her favorite city, New York, spending a few cocooned years safely married to a super-rich hedge-fund guy who could provide her with what she called “all the toys”: the plane, the private island, the security detail. Gliding sleekly into her 40s, her romantic taste would have moved to men of power over boys of play. She’d have tired of the hedge-fund guy and drifted into undercover trysts with someone more exciting—a high-mindedly horny late-night talk-show host, or a globe-trotting French finance wizard destined for the Élysée Palace. I suspect she would have retained a weakness for men in uniform, and a yen for dashing Muslim men.

And who is the World's Grumpiest cat?

I wouldnt love to have that cat in my house...

I dunno, wen u see cats u imagine these things walking around playing with loose wires, running around looking for mice, sitting on your lap while you watch TV, not this cat...

Mister Pip apparently has an intense dislike of noise, bad weather, dogs and football.
The Persian Burmese was snapped looking glum as glum can be by his owner Rose Oughten from Kings Lynn in Norfolk

The Protest Against Volkswagen

Remember that The Force Commercial by Volkswagen..well

it has made a turn for the worst.. at

Old Street's Silicon Roundabout, North London

The stunt was organised by Greenpeace and saw environmentalists dress up as the iconic Star Wars figures to unfurl banners around the roundabout protesting against Volkswagen’s alleged opposition to European environmental laws. 

A banner unveiled in the centre of the large roundabout on Tuesday morning, declared: ‘Volkswagen. The Dark Side’, with a link to a website detailing Greenpeace’s protest. 

A statement, entitled Rebel Manifesto, on the site states: ‘Our home - Earth - is in trouble. VW opposes key environmental laws we need if we're going to stop our planet going the way of Alderaan (bye bye). But all is not lost. We feel the good in Volkswagen.

 The official Anti-Volkswagen Video from Greenpeace...

A Picture Can Say a Thousand Words

You were in Bagamoyo Yesterday
Yeah the whole day
Why didnt you tell me, thats my home town
I didnt want to be a bug
Aaaaah...Nice socks..
Bought them at the airport
Aaaaah

Ps:The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation assist Tanzania in research on health and agriculture sectors.

Street Style: Kenya

This is from the Street Fashionista Contest From African Woman Magazine FB page..

To vote, just leave a comment on the picture of your favorite fashionista! 

What Would Nyerere DO?

I ran across this video TEDxDar and thought, well well...I love this woman...
Modesta is a renowned writer, with weekly columns on The Guardian and Business Times newspapers, ASPIRE and Bang! Magazines. She has signed up with Clouds FM for a two hour weekly radio show and with TBC1 for a weekly TV Talk Show. Apart from her motivational speaking engagements, Modesta is one of the few young entrepreneur mentors who gives of her time daily strongly believing that "only developed people, develop nations."

speaks of Human Resource Development and how this could make Tanzania an economic powerhouse under the TEDxDar 2010 theme of "What would Nyerere Do?"

African Woman May June Issue 2011

I love this cover, Kenya's Music Divas...

Aannd

Uganda's Music Divas

What no Tanzanian Music Divas...o wait  there aint no African Woman Mag in Tzee now is there..darn...

Though I think I will always be inlove with the March/April issue from Kenya

Somewhere in Dar Es Salaam...

I used to wonder how Tanzania's CIAs versions operate...well

So much for undercover...

whoever this car was followin got the memo now..

ImageCredits: ItsDar

Somewhere in Botswana

Gaborone, Botswana
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Freestyle and Prose...

From Across the continent...

Keyti: Poetry in the Street (Dakar, Senegal) from Nomadic Wax on Vimeo.
Shot on location in downtown Dakar, Senegal, at the entrance to Marche Sandaga.

Produced by Nomadic Wax.
Featuring: Keyti (Formerly of Rap'Adio crew)
DP: Magee McIlvaine
Editor: Magee McIlvaine
Sound: Ben Herson
Audio Post Production: Dan Cantor (Notable Productions)
Translation: Keyti

NOMADICWAX.COM

Video for spoken word from Senegalese rapper Keyti–remember him? Keyti was one of the stars of Ben Herson’s 2009 documentary film about hip hop and politics in the Senegalese capital, “Democracy in Dakar.” 


Freestly From Fid Q and Nikki Mbishi from Tanzania

June 29

June 29

Feast Day of Saints Peter & Paul  (Roman Catholic Church)

ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Prince Aristidis-Stavros of Greece + Denmark   {2008} [son of Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece, Prince of Denmark (son of King Constantine II of Greece)]

                                                              (carried by his father in this photo)



ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

Princess Caroline of Monaco & Philippe Junot   {1978} [religious] (divorced October 9, 1980; annulled 1992)

Fumihito, Prince Akishino of Japan & Kiko Kawashima   {1990}

HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1194   Sverre is crowned King of Norway.

1644   The English Civil Wars:  King Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Copredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English king on English soil.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1397   King John II "the Faithless" of Aragon (d.1479)

1482   Queen consort Maria of Portugal + the Algarves, Infanta of Spain (d.1517)

1596   Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d.1680)

1911   Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Prince consort of the Netherlands, Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld (d.2004)

1926   Sheikh Jaber III Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d.2006)

1946   Prince Egon of Furstenberg (d.2004)

                                                          (pictured at left with his then-wife, Diane)



DEATHS

226   Cao Pi, Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (China)

1059   Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
1252   King Abel of Denmark, Duke of Schleswig

1509   Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond + Derby, mother of King Henry VII of England

1875   Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia, Croatia, Dalmatia, Slavonia, Galicia, + Illyria, King of Lombardy-Venetia, King of Jerusalem, Archduke of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany + Krakow, Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Silesia, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, + Teschen, Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia, Princely Count of Habsburg + Tyrol, etc etc (abdicated 1848)

1977   Elena "Magda" Lupescu, sometimes aka Princess Elena of Romania as the third wife of former King Carol II of Romania