hair goals.

natasha ndlovu's locks got me like *drool*..

a different world.

it's been awhile since i've really felt inspired by anything, so i didn't really feel like i had anything worth posting.

denise huxtable is, without a doubt, the most stylish television character of all time. eff carrie bradshaw, denise is bomb.

hustle bustle.

going through one of those phases where i just don't even know why i have half the shit in my closet that i do. i need some direction. or maybe a trip to london.

remember when tyra looked like this, though? such a down homegirl.

light brights.

the rain is getting close to stopping. i'm so ready for that.

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her dark materials.

http://adjoaamuah.tumblr.com/



check it.

crips & bloods: made in america.

phil and i sat down and watched this documentary last friday. i mean, i know that racism is institutionalized in america and canada, but lord, i wasn't prepared to see what i saw and learn even more about the true history of the degredation of black culture on this continent.

do yourself a favour and educate yourself - watch this film, and understand how much further we have left to go. we need to understand our communities before we can know how to properly raise them up and fight the powers that be.

step. clap. go.

Step, Clap, Go! from Opening Ceremony on Vimeo.

basically, exactly what yaya and i dreamed of doing from ages 6 to present.

can't wait for easter.

kashmir.

oh let the sun beat down upon my face
with stars to fill my dream.
i am a traveler of both time and space
to be where I have been.

to sit with elders of a gentle race
this world has seldom seen.
they talk of days for which they sit and wait
when all will be revealed.

talk an' song from tongues of lilting grace
whose sounds caress my ear.
but not a word I heard could I relate
the story was quite clear.

big ups!

my homegirl for life/cousin (true dis) dot just informed me that her brother, kweku, is killing it with his new movie (he is the executive producer), 'the bang bang club'. check out him, director steven silver, malin akerman, frank rautenbach and lance samuel at the after party for their film during the 35th toronto international film festival.

amazing! can't wait to see what he works on next! xx

listed: good hair.

black women! check your head (and/or weave) and go see this. white women - this is the shit we put ourselves through.

this girl is so me at age eight, it's uncanny.

thanks, phil xo.

a comment on apartheid.

if you haven't seen 'district 9' yet, check it out a.s.a.p.! such a rad movie. and the director went to vfs - vancouver represent!

the snow leopard.

my brethren are making it rain! or, snow.. kwame nkrumah-acheampong is ghana's first and only athlete to qualify for any winter olympics. ever.

this past march he qualified for the 2010 games by breaking the magical 140-point barrier set by the FIS, and he was raised in ghana without seeing a snowflake until he was 27. not that he expects to win a medal, his goal is simply to, "is to ski very well and prove to people that I deserve to be on the hill, with the other top world class athletes". the radness.

pc via gw.

big fun.

i'm thinking of going natural. please give me feedback - yay or nay?

pc - fh.

UPDATE: it totally sucked. i looked like a wilted porcupine.

i don't know if she will fit in my apartment.

i want one!! margaret the giraffe is one of the smallest ever rothschild giraffes to have been born at the chester zoo in the uk. but at 5' tall, 34 kilos and growing, i don't know if it's going to happen.

listed: les sapeurs du congo.

the second i saw this zone zero article i had to post about it. over the course of the better part of the last century, gentlemen of all ages in the congo have developed a specific, and most definitely dandied, style of dress refered to as 'la sape'; it stands for: la societé des ambianceurs et des personnes elegantes. it refers to someone dressed with elegance - and the subculture has their own slang: 'yambala' means baggy shirt, 'bumbatio' means pants and 'nkaka' means suit.

and this ain't nothing new..

this shit is really happening.

right now, some major shit is playing out in zimbabwe. here's a quick timeline breakdown:

march 30 - opposition movement for democratic change (MDC) claims victory in presidential and parliamentary elections based on early results.

april 2 - parliamentary election results show president robert mugabe's ZANU-PF has lost its majority for the first time since independence in 1980.

may 2 - electoral body says MDC's morgan tsvangirai won most votes in the presidential election, but not enough to avoid a run-off against mugabe. opposition rejects the result.

may 24 - tsvangirai returns to zimbabwe to contest the run-off after several weeks abroad, even though he says first round results were rigged to deny him outright victory.

june 4 - police detain tsvangirai for more than eight hours while he was campaigning for the run-off. he is eventually held five times.

june 22 - tsvangirai says he is pulling out of the run-off because attacks by mugabe's supporters have killed 90 of his followers, making a fair election impossible - not to mention the attempt, a frightening prospect for his supporters.

june 23 - u.n. security council unanimously declares a free and fair presidential election run-off impossible.

june 25 - zimbabwe's neighbors in the southern african development community call for the vote to be postponed.

june 27 - zimbabwe goes ahead with the run-off vote for the one-candidate election. witnesses say some people are forced to vote for mugabe. voters fingers are marked with purple ink to identify them.

june 29 - mugabe is declared the winner with over 85 percent and is sworn in for a new term. observers from the pan-african parliament say the vote was undoubtedly flawed and should be re-run.

July 1 - african union summit calls for a government of national unity in zimbabwe.

this is all real. this is a frightening time for zimbabwe and the world. my thoughts and love are with my homeboy, tichona. bless.

listed: kila kitu clothing.

cofounders andrew kimani and bartholomew 'kamau' fisher sullivan.


designer lenjo maza in the 'obama'.

having an ear to the ground in kenya can provide a wealth of coolness. kila kitu (a swahili work meaning 'everything') is a clothing company cofounded by a couple of renaissance men - my down homeboy bart and his good friend andrew. these resourceful fellows, 'mine the depths of nairobi's sprawling second hand clothing markets' for, 'preloved fabrics... which they reuse, remix and renew to create one-of-a-kind garments'.

each piece has it's own name, identity, music, and website. yea, i said website. you can download mp3's, upload pictures of you wearing your hot piece and join the boys on a virtual video tour of a fabric hunt a gikomba, nairobi's biggest second-hand clothing market.

don't trip. check it.