Archive for the 'African' Category

Forenji Olivia Wyatt 11 Comments

Ethiopia from olivia wyatt on Vimeo.
Filmmaker Olivia Wyatt went to Ethiopia to document the music of 13 different tribes for her a film on tribal Music on Ethiopia.
Along with the film, she took some Polaroid’s of her experiences with the locals. The shots somehow found my inbox via two sources. See more [...]

Forget FB, Tweet 24 Comments

Daym, is what I was thinking when I saw the above chart, the growth rate of twitter is unheard of in the world of web. Twitter is now processing 50 million Tweets a day, which comes to about 1.5 billion Tweets a month.
By Comparison, Facebook which has more users and the number two website in [...]

West African Models 33 Comments

Oluchi Onweagba, that is her name — she is no Alek Wek, I have always love Alek because of her skin color, but there is a whole girlish look to her. I know most of you guys will disagree, but we all can agree that she changed the way being black is looked at, at [...]

my sweetie 15 Comments

Wale – My Sweetie (directed by tabi Bonney) from tabi Bonney on Vimeo.

2009 was a great year for us; we experienced a lot unexpected positive outcomes, and a lot of our hard work came to fruition.  As soon as we were ready to call it a year and start working on 2010, Dawit gets [...]

Cross Section of Addis & Georgia 45 Comments

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The smell of yerga chaffe fills my nose and I am taken by the rich seductiveness of its scent. It takes me to Lake Tana, to the buna farmers, and back again to where I am now. Where am I? I am sitting in my boyfriend’s family’s house after [...]