Amaku Ikpeme better known as @queenteddy on Instagram is currently breaking the internet with her dance moves. In a bdazzaled black and yellow ankara print top and infectious personality, she does a few Couple Decale dances to a popular Ivorian beat called “Beat The Chaz Beat”. Watch the video below:
Zen Magazine’s November cover star is a very talented Nollywood actress who hails from the Idoma speaking area of Benue State in Nigeria. A lover of languages, she speaks and writes English, French, Hausa, Idoma, Spanish and Yoruba, fluently.
Today’s Ankara Street Style of the Day is Grace Alex.
Out of all the internet challenges from the ice bucket challenge to the cinnamon challenge, the mannequin challenge is by far my favorite one. The mannequin challenge is a short video that shows people standing completely motionless for about a minute. Somebody films the whole scene, winding a camera through the area and sometimes showing […]
Award-winning novelist and Beyoncé’s favorite feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie had many stories to tell in British Vogue’s April 2015 issue. Erica Wagner meets the TED-talk sensation to chat about her throughts on Beyonce, being black, the movie Selma, her dislike for garri and more.
Fresh from her MTV Africa Music Awards 2016 “Best Female” win, Yemi Alade releases a humorous music video for the Selebobo produced “Tumbum”, off her acclaimed sophomore album “Mama Africa: The Diary of an African Woman”.
Today’s Ankara Street Style of The Day is Jojo Charry.
Issa Rae’s gawky-yet-relatable humor won her a throng of fans on YouTube and a place on best-seller lists for her memoir, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. In Fast Company Magazine’s latest issue, she talks about her new HBO show, Insecure, why she loves Seinfeld, and the movement to diversify media.
Today’s Ankara Street Style of the Day is Melody Asherman.
Today’s Ankara Photo of The Day is of Ogechi also known as 2SnapsAndATwirl.
Hip-hop fans tuned into the 2016 BET Hip Hop Awards on Tuesday, October 4th. The most anticipated and favorite segment of the award show is the rap cyphers.
I love how people get so creative for Halloween. Every year it gets better and better. For Halloween 2016, Beyonce, Blue Ivy & Tina Knowles channeled Salt, Pepa & DJ Spinderella.
Lagos Fashion and Design Week (LFDW) is a multiday fashion event platform that aims to drive the Nigerian and ultimately, the African fashion industry; by bringing together buyers, consumers and the media to view the current collections of African designers in the fashion capital of Lagos, Nigeria. LFDW 2016 took place at Federal Palace Hotel, […]
As of October 15th, Fela Kuti would have been 78-years-old and in Felabration, photographer Dudu Images collaborated with wardrobe stylist Chantle White for a Nigerian themed photoshoot. The models are wearing mixed ankara print iro and buba outfits with headwraps and face paint similar to Fela Kuti’s dancers. The background for the editorial was shot on […]
