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"It was a mild September night, and I was in Kenya’s northern frontier district, Laikipia. The Samburu Trust had arranged for me to spend a couple of hours with a Samburu elder and his family... I just wanted to capture a tiny slice of their everyday life."
Some of America’s most popular competition shows feature amateur singers attempting to impress judges who can’t see them, celebrities trying to keep up with professional dancers, or single men and women looking for the 'one'. Tanzania’s popular reality series stars female farmers.
With work from over 350 poets across 24 countries, the project hopes to elevate the African voice in arts and culture.
The first-ever African poetry archive is rewriting history and doing something that’s never been done before: collecting all of the continent’s vast and diverse writings into one corner of the Internet.
The Badilisha Poetry X-Change, a project launched in 2012 by the Africa Centre, an arts and culture organization in Cape Town, South Africa, has archived the work of more than 350...
This piece is excerpted from an article by TakePart.
If Instagram followers were currency, street photographer Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York, would be a wealthy man.
Known and beloved for his insightful snapshots of New Yorkers alongside their responses to philosophical questions, Stanton has taken his unfiltered approach to the world, and has just wrapped up his world tour with the United Nations, capturing moments of poverty in everyday lives everywhere.
Stanton was asked to take a global tour to promote...