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...
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This weekend over 40 fashion designers from across Africa will get together for the fifth annual Africa Fashion Week in London! (AFWL) AFWL is Europe’s largest catwalk event featuring African and African-inspired lines and highlights the work of established and emerging African designers for a global audience. Amongst this super talented group, we’ve picked out eight designers whose work inspires us to fly to London and start shopping!
Chaivo Designs
Country of origin: Zimbabwe
Clothing aesthetic: Avant-guarde evening wear
Market: Women
Tarisayi Epha Gweje, Zimbabwean born and...
Always wanted to go to Kenya, but weren’t able to sneak onto Air Force One with Obama? Now you can experience the country, the culture and the comedy from your computer. Below, we feature the “A to Z” highlights of what 700,000 Kenyans on Twitter (#KoT) are doing, saying and laughing about.
Nendo Ventures, a supremely creative Kenyan graphic design firm, began The A-to-Z of African Twitter in October 2014 as a fun, innovative way to highlight moments of context and insight...
It’s World Emoji Day! Test your knowledge of ONE’s issues based on these emojis….
How did you do?! Join ONE today to start using your emoji activism to end extreme poverty.
After my sister married and started cooking for two, she was keen to expand her repertoire and inspired me to look beyond my standard evening fare of salads or sandwiches.
The ONE office is full of people who love to experience different cultures. So I asked my colleagues for some suggestions and now realize cooking African-inspired recipes is an easy way to spice up the kitchen and a fun way to explore other cultures!
Here are some of the staff’s top picks. If you...
Steamed Bread (Ujeqe)
Ingredients
4 Cups of flour
Half a teaspoon of salt
½ to ¾ of a packet of instant yeast
4 tablespoons of sugar
1 ½ cups water, warm or cold but not hot and more as needed (mine used just under 2 cups)
Directions
Mix ingredients until combined
Coat dough in 2 tablespoons of oil
Cover and let rise for an hour, preferably in a warm place
Fill the bottom of a large pot with one inch of water and bring to a boil
Place dough in a...
Senegal
For the past week, Twitter has been addictive for those with wanderlust or simply curiosity about the world due to the trending hashtag #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou. Do a quick Google search and you will see why the visual venture went viral: stunning photography of vibrant and varied landscapes, joyful glimpses into daily life across the continent, and proud displays of diverse cultures, architecture, art and fashion.
Started by 22 year old Somali Twitter user Diana Salah and a friend, the hashtag has generated...
Africa is a huge continent made up of 54 countries and over a billion people. But did you know that in Ethiopia, clocks are upside down with our 6:00 at their 12:00? This and 12 other incredible facts are sure to turn you into the captain at your next trivia tournament.
The view of Morocco from Spain across the Strait of Gibraltar.
1. Africa and Europe are separated by less than 9 miles at the Strait of Gibraltar, which separates Spain from Morocco....
This is a photo series from photographer, Darren Ornitz. He is based out of Brooklyn, NY and working as a freelancer for Reuters, his work has been published in the New York Times, Travel + Escape, Afar, and by various other publications and NGO’s.
116 million girls aged 15 to 24 in developing countries have never completed primary education, or have in some instances never attended school, which drastically hampers their chances of rising out of poverty. What Darren Orntiz does...
The craft of cheese-making has been thriving in one region of the Congo, dubbed the ‘Switzerland of Africa’.
David McNair is an award-winning reporter and editor based in Charlottesville, Va. He runs the hyper-local news site The DTM and his fiction has appeared inVirginia Quarterly Review. A version of this was published on Take Part.
In the lush hills of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, an unusual craft practiced in the Masisi Mountains is thriving despite decades of war: fine cheese-making.
Known in...