Uzodinma Iweala, “Stop Trying to ‘Save’ Africa”
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This little company from Kenya makes toys from slippers that wash up on the beach. Pictures by Ben Curtis
The company’s name is Ocean Sole: http://www.ocean-sole.com/
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Young Teenage CEO Earning Over 100K Per Year!
17 year old Leanna Archer turned a family recipe into an international company. Archer started a line of natural hair and body care products when she was nine years old. Her mother would make a hair pomade using natural ingredients from Haiti and a secret recipe passed down from her great-grandmother. After getting multiple compliments on her hair, Leanna gave her friends a few samples of the pomade and from there the orders started pouring in. Archer is now making history earning an annual revenue of more than $100,000 per year.
As a young entrepreneur, public speaker and philanthropist. Archer has taken her experiences on the road, speaking to youth all over the country, and has been profiled in Forbes, Success Magazine, Ebony and other publications. She has been named on “Inc.” magazine’s 30 Under 30 list of top young entrepreneurs.Check out her appearance on The Jeff Probst Show.
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love love LOVE this! #BlackGirlsForever
YASSSSSSSSSSSSS
she is making BANK. you go girl.
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Purple Fashion #19 Spring/Summer 2013
“Body Art”
Model: Ataui Deng
Racist Mob, Incited by Israeli Leaders, Attacks African Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Tel Aviv [published May 24th, 2012]
How did this happen?
The short answer begins by examining the protest, which was organized by Likud activists and attended by several Knesset members, who (for obvious political reasons) stood before the masses and blamed their hardships on African refugees with incendiary catch phrases.
Addressing the “infiltration problem,” Knesset Member Miri Regev (Likud) criticized the Israeli government for not sending the African refugees from whence they came, calling them “a cancer in our body.” Danny Danon (Likud) followed up his incendiary speech by posting on Facebook, “Israel is at war. An enemy state of infiltrators was established in Israel, and its capital is south Tel Aviv.” And Michael Ben-Ari, a former member of the racist Kach party, incited the crowd by tapping both into their economic despair and xenophobia, warning them that the Africans would take all available jobs and leave everyone else with nothing.
Photo 1: A mother with her baby cries minutes after she was attacked by a mob, with the baby thrown to the ground, following a protest against African refugees and asylum seekers in Tel Aviv’s Hatikva neighborhood.
Photo 2: Eritrean refugees react moments after their shop was attacked by an angry mob.
Photo 3: A woman with a shirt that reads, “Death to the Sudanese.”
Photo 4: An Israeli mob in Tel Aviv burns garbage and sings, “The people want the Africans to be burned.”
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This episode of NY Undercover had Nonchalant’s “5 o’clock” as part of the soundtrack to talk about racial profiling.
true story. i used to work with sudanese gangs in cairo. and this was their theme song. because the beat sounded so ill, even though they didnt understand english, really. ironic? yes, considering what the lyrics are saying…
god, i adored those boys.
I cannot believe this was almost 20 years ago.
“They are fed up with the dark narrative international media keep reporting on their region.” See how young photographers in Congo are using photography to tell new stories about their nation.
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We need more women like these two in the spotlight.
Football grannies. Limpopo, South Africa. Nkowankowa Township.
Love!!
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