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Sub-Saharan Africa has seen the biggest explosion in its Christian population in the past century, going from about 9 million Christians in 1910 to about 516 million....
Source: CNN
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Nigeria Fashion Week has always featured bold colors, but this year the focus was on one color in particular -- green.
Source: CNN
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Ethiopian restaurants are enriching South African food culture.
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
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A network of underground rooms is the latest addition to President Jacob Zuma's lavish Nkandla estate..
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
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The poll found that Nigerians are the most optimistic nation among those surveyed, with 72% saying they expect...
Source: How we made it in Africa
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Ethnic stereotypes are not necessarily a bad thing — it is one thing to be stereotyped as liking the good life, dressing well, wearing the latest Armani suit and scent, driving the latest BMW, having a penchant for speaking the Queen’s English, or indulging in kuku porno.
Source: Africa Review
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The Gambia will 17 December 2011 play host to the first-ever Gambia Fashion Night that is expected to bring together fashion designers and renowned musicians across the world.
Source: The Point
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Cape Town has trumped Spain's Bilbao and Dublin in Ireland to be named Design Capital 2014 by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design... Cape Town is the fourth city and first African city to be awarded the title.
Source: Mail & Guardian
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Oupa Nkosi captured the action both backstage and on the catwalk.
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
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South African designers were found wanting this year at the prestigious African Fashion Awards show, at which London's Ozwald Boateng won the big accolades.
Source: Times Live
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For years, all Hannah Pool knew was that her biological parents had died shortly after her birth.
An Eritrean-born girl adopted as an infant by a British academic, Pool found herself spending her first years in Norway before landing in the UK at the age of seven.
Source: CNN
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The owner of Uganda’s first openly gay bar says her establishment has been shut down, the latest setback for gays and lesbians in this conservative East African nation. Jacqueline Kasha said Thursday that her Sappho Islands bar was padlocked by the landlord on Sunday. The landlord said the bar was noisy and attracted “strange” people.
Source: The Washington Post
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A recent survey by Renaissance Capital of the booming Nigerian middle-class delivered some interesting results.
Source: How we made it in Africa
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Tunisia’s revolution has led to an economic slump, but jewelers are still rubbing their hands because couples aspiring to wed bleed themselves dry to buy gold at the current high prices.
Source: Al Arabiya
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Edgy designer John Kaveke will be making his London Fashion Week debut this Friday. He'll be presenting his latest collection at the 'A La Mode' catwalk show.
Source: Afri-Love
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Miss Angola Leila Lopes, a business student from the town of Benguela in her home country, was crowned Miss Universe on Monday
Source: Reuters
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Angola's Leila Lopes was crowned Miss Universe 2011 Monday night in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Source: VOA
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In Madagascar, this is the time of year when a bizarre ritual called the Festival of Dry Bones, or Famadihana (literally “the turning of the bones”), is held — a tradition dedicated to the ancestors, usually taking place between July and September every five to seven years.
Source: The East African
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