Month: April 2013

• April 28, 2013

  African Fashion as the Next Fashion Capital: Evolving the Concept of Hybrid Modernity

  Last year at TedxDumbo in October, I spoke about Africa as the next Fashion Capital. I believe this notion fully and it has some roots in the timing of what is going on the continent. This decade, most African countries will hit 50 years of independence. This is a historic milestone and I feel it will…
• April 28, 2013

  Striving to be Ghana’s Premier Fashion School: Vogue Style School of Fashion and Design

    Photo of Joyce Ababio This is the seventh blog in my series, The Pulse of Africa talking with Global Africans working in Africa and across the Diaspora. It takes an inside view on Africa’s progress, issues on arts and culture, technology and opportunities in this decade. See the series here. I began this blog on the day…
• April 28, 2013

  Runo Okiomah’s Maa-Bara: Growing Food Anywhere

  Visualization of Maa-Bara’s sustainable aquaponics technology. Image composed by Ogheneruno Okiomah and Daniel Daou. This is the sixth blog in my series, The Pulse of Africa talking with Global Africans working in Africa and across the Diaspora. It takes an inside view on Africa’s progress, issues on arts and culture, technology and opportunities in this decade. See…
• April 28, 2013

  Rediscovering Anthony Barboza through his Extraordinary Photographs and Jazz Moments

  I don’t often do any pieces on super stars. But with Anthony Barboza, I could not help it. He really is a super star – chronicling the black experience, especially in jazz. I first really heard about him at an Organization of Black Designers conference about 12 years ago though I had seen his work…