Vintage Africa - Benin Woman Smoking, by Hector Acebes, 1953
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2008/nov/25/tribal-portraits-african-photography#/?picture=339823978&index=1)
I really want to know everything about the person in this photo.
HEAD WRAP | SOUTH AFRICA.
Photographed by: The Expressionist
Happy Independence Day to all Eritreans everywhere!
Today, May 23rd, marks the 21st celebration since the East African nation of Eritrea gained its full independence from Ethiopia, after having previously been colonized by Italy in 1885 - who they gained independence from in 1941, and England - who they gained independence from in 1951. Before the Italian occupation of what is now modern-day Eritrea, the Ottoman Empire maintained control of over much of this territory between 1557–1885.
Eritrean history is home to some of the oldest civilizations on the continent. Together with northern Somalia, Djibouti, and the Red Sea coast of Sudan, Eritrea is considered the most likely location of the land known to the ancient Egyptiansas Punt (or “Ta Netjeru,” meaning god’s land), whose first mention dates to the 25th century BC. The ancient Puntites were a nation of people that had close relations with Pharaonic Egypt during the times of Pharaoh Sahure and Queen Hatshepsut.
Around the 8th century BC, a kingdom known as D’mt was established in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, with its capital at Yeha in northern Ethiopia. Its successor, the Kingdom of Aksum, emerged around the 1st century BC or 1st century AD and grew to be, according to the Persian philosopher Mani described Axum as one of the four greatest civilizations in the world, along withChina, Persia, and Rome.
Black is more than beautiful……it’s beyond it.
Tuareg woman (by Helga)
Tuareg gender customs may refute Western preconceptions: Among the Tuareg, the men are veiled and the women are not. The society is largely matrilineal. They don’t fit into the nice bundles that art historians or anthropologists like to have. The Tuareg defy stereotypes—of Islam, Africa and social relationships—in other ways: The Tuareg are Islamic, but not in any comprehensive sense, it’s mixed with a heavy dose of pre-existing pagan beliefs in the evil eye and the world of spirits, or jinn.
- New exhibition highlights the ‘artful’ Tuareg of the Sahara
Oprah Winfrey posing in South Africa with her Leadership Academy for Girls graduates!
On January 14, 2012, these graduates became the first to graduate from Oprah’s school based in Henley-on-Klip, outside Johannesburg.
Congrats Ladies!!!
I saw these pictures few weeks ago, I couldn’t stop crying :’D
This school is amazing, there even have braiders and hairdressers specially for students so that they do not try to experiment on their own with their hair and damage it. Only a black woman can understand they need of of other black women (to be).
