Tyla's South African Secret

27 Apr

British Vogue presents ‘In The Bag’ with Tyla. The South African singer and songwriter reveals her handbag essentials, as we have a look inside Tyla’s Givenchy handbag. “In South Africa, we use this [maize meal] to make Pap. Pap is maize meal, hot water and a few salts—it’s a workout to make it,” says the Grammy Award winner as she pulls out a hefty bag of ACE super maize meal. “You might have to taste it, though, it’s really good.” Other must-haves include a ‘bedazzled’ Vaseline and Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask, plus a Baies Diptyque Candle to make hotel rooms feel somewhat more cosy. Watch the total episode of British Vogue’s ‘In The Bag’, as Tyla gives us a sneak...

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29 Sep

African Pride Launches Initiative To Provide Hair Products To

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Black women can spend up to 4x more on haircare than women in other racial groups, with the average cost coming out to about 18% of their yearly income on products and maintenance alone. African Pride recognizes this, and has stepped in to alleviate that heavy strain on cash-strapped college students. The legacy haircare brand recently announced the return of its partnership 7-year-old partnerhship with Impressions of Beauty, a multicultural college marketing company, to supply free products to school students. As a component of the partnership, African Pride also announced it'll be providing products from the ‘Moisture Miracle’ collection to students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Predominantly White Institutions (PWI) across the country. “We're proud to be part of those...

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5 Jul

A World in Common: the trailblazing recent wave of

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We spoke with six photographers from the continent’s recent vanguard of image-making about their visions of Africa past, present and future As its title suggests, the scope of A World In Common: Contemporary African Photography is vast. The expansive recent exhibition at Tate Modern brings together 36 multigenerational artists whose work explicates, shapes, and reinterprets Africa’s diverse cultures and historical narratives. Tracing these threads across photography, film, and audio, the show spans the continent’s many geographies, cultures and time zones to present a vision of Africa past, present and future that's as nuanced because it is prodigious. “Given the vast number of nations on the African continent, the aim wasn’t necessarily to ‘represent’ each...

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21 May