Meet the Chikudu, Congo’s Creative DIY Wheels
Emanuel Buke won’t train just anyone. Like a swami on a mountaintop, he is discerning about his disciples. For the past 16 years he…
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A Sierra Leonean Designer Redefines African Couture
If she were still in New York or Paris – anywhere but here, really – Adama Kargbo would be wearing striped socks that reach…
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All Things Must Fight To Live
In Congo brutality seems to be everywhere: history, war, politics; in the landscape and the poverty and the desperate chug of locals’ day-to-day lives….
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Rwandans Opt to Redefine Beauty
BUTARE, RWANDA — Sandra Uwimbabazi knows runways – she’s modeled for years – but she stumbled on a recent Saturday here. A tall, slender…
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After a certain point, and if you’re the creative sort, the only way to engage with a myth, perhaps, is to rewrite it.
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Down and Out in Paris and Boston
Outgoing North Carolina senator John Edwards wasn’t the first person to notice the Second America, which he described in a primary campaign speech as…
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