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American Design Students Service Learning with Kofi Boone in Ghana
by Atim Annette Oton This is the second 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 first here. In 2000, when I joined Parsons School of…
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Nigerian Collaboration Sparkles with the Bronx Museum’s smARTpower Initiative
by Atim Annette Oton This is the first blog in my series, The Pulse of Africa on Huffington Post Black Voices 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. Early this month, artist Brett Cook sent me…
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The Pulse of Africa: Kibonen Nfi, a Cameroonian Fashion/Image Consultant
by Atim Annette Oton The Pulse of Africa is a series by Atim Annette Oton talking with Africans in Africa and across the Diaspora on Africa’s progress, issues on culture, technology and opportunities in this decade. Kibonen Nfi is a Certified Image Consultant who studied International Trade and Marketing in the fashion industry at the Fashion Institute…
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The Pulse of Africa: Nii Commey Botchway, a South African design educator
by Atim Annette Oton The Pulse of Africa is a series by Atim Annette Oton talking with Africans in Africa and across the Diaspora on Africa’s progress, issues on culture, technology and opportunities in this decade. The interviews and discussions are with Southern Africans in Africa and in the West and I interviewed is Nii Commey Botchway,…
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Fall 2011: Time to work on Global Africa, Afropolitans and Diasporic Africans
This Fall, I have started my engine running and working on a series of projects that are in the realm of Global Africa exploring Afropolitans and Diasporic Africans. It begins with: My Blogging on Huffington Post Black Voices Editorial work at Calabar Magazine Growing the Brand Black Design News Network (BDNN) Expanding Calabar Imports Creating…
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Identity
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one’s nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one’s nakedness is all that gives…