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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...
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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...
President Obama is headed to Kenya for the 6th annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) - and this year's theme? Women and youth.
A new patch for women is helping supplement iodine-deficient diets in a fashionable, innovative way.
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Priti Salian is a Bangalore-based journalist. A version of this piece was originally published here by Take Part.
Ashwini Raut, 25, leads a healthy, happy life right now in her hometown in rural Maharashtra, India, as she plans her upcoming wedding and looks forward to starting a family. But it was only recently that she learned her long-term health was at risk. The soil of the land...
It’s World Emoji Day! Test your knowledge of ONE’s issues based on these emojis….
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There are 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty globally, a number that has more than halved since 1990 thanks to the help of global funding and programs such as the Millennium Development Goals. But 2015 is the final year of the MDG's - so what's next?
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...
On this day, 30 years ago, Prince Charles and Princess Diana kicked off Live Aid, the worldwide rock concert organized by Irish rocker Bob Geldof to raise money for African famine relief. Taking in place in both London and Philadelphia, the record-breaking charity event was televised in 110 countries, 40 of which held a telethon during the broadcast.
Prompted to action by his travel to Ethopia, Geldof first organized Band Aid – a charity super group comprised of the UK’s top artists...
A version of this article, by Jennifer Swann, a culture and lifestyle reporter covering the intersection of pop culture and social justice, originally appeared on TakePart.
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To the thousands of European and American tourists who flock to it on vacation, the village of Matemwe Beach looks like a tropical paradise: white sandy beaches, warm turquoise ocean, and plenty of palm trees. Luxury hotels, day spas, and fine restaurants dot the coast on the island of Zanzibar, part of Tanzania, where...
For many students and teachers across the African continent, energy poverty – the lack of access to reliable energy sources – is a challenge faced every day both at home and at school. In fact, 90 million children in sub-Saharan Africa go to primary schools that lack electricity. Here are five additional ways that energy poverty affects education: