ASD Newswire: Arise Magazine Fashion Week edition
The official designer line-up for the higly anticipated Arise Magazine Fashion Week has been announced! The 2nd annual fashion event will be held in Lagos again, and this time around will feature 77 designers. Among them will be favorites such as Jewel by Lisa and Mataano, as well as tons of up-and-comers representing from all [...]
Nigerian songstress Omawumi just released a spirited and lively new single, called Bottom Belle, featuring Flavour N’Abania. Says the singer of her new jam: ““Bottom Belle is a special song,” the feisty diva explains. “It is my witty way of telling the story of an opinionated young Nigerian woman who wants and fully intends to [...]
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New York Fashion Week starts tomorrow! As always, we are excited to be in the midst of the fashion mania, but most of all we look forward to seeing our favorite African designers and models! Ajak Deng, pictured above, looks absolutely fabulous in Oyster Magazine’s February 2012 Tom Ford edition, and we are quite sure [...]
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Besides being excited for the 2nd Arise Magazine Fashion Week in Lagos this March, we are equally excited for the magazines 14th edition, hitting stands soon featuring the lovely Ugandan Daphine Tony.[Beauty Is Diverse] In other news… Ghana Fashion & Design Week is getting its casting underway! All models based in the Accra area will [...]
Continue reading …ASD Newswire: Adepero Oduye Shines for her role in “Pariah” edition vol. 2
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The buzz from Adepero Oduye‘s breakout role in “Pariah” continues! She is featured on Vanity Fair‘s annual Hollywood Issue along with Paula Patton and 11 other actresses. Hot off a Golden Globe nomination and glowing reviews for her portrayal of Alike, a Brooklyn teen struggling with her sexual identity, we hope that this level of [...]
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A popular series of graphic novels by Marguerite Abouet called Aya de Yopougon, (Aya of Yop City) are set to get the the film treatment very soon. The stories, set in the 1970s Ivory Coast follows the title character, 19-year-old Aya and her friends as they hilarious navigate their way through young adulthood: “Around this [...]
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Paul Simon reunited with the renowned South African singing group Ladysmith Black Mambazo for the 25th anniversary of his Grammy winning album, Graceland, the album that initially brought them together, partly making an anti-apartheid stance. The reunion is chronicled a new documentary called Under African Skies, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in [...]
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Omar Sy is being hailed as a Black french movie icon. The French born actor, (his family hails from Senegal) has been nominated for Cesar award for his role as Driss in Intouchables, a spectacularly popular film in France, and also a breakout role for the actor. The Cesar’s carry the same weight as an [...]
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If you have free time this week, be sure to make time to see the newly restored 1959 film, “Come Back, Africa” at Film Forum! The Lionel Rogosin-directed film was filmed secretly in the townships of South Africa, to document the harsh realities of Apartheid life for Blacks. When it premiered at the Venice Film [...]
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{Video} Whose afraid of Africa? Hip hop artists, it seems. Or, that is the word according to Nas. Because of the many misconceptions and false information, he feels many artists may not see Africa as a great opportunity. The interview is quite old, but the message is quite timely: we’ve now started to see more [...]
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