I have discovered that I actually really do enjoy photography. I was inspired by an iPhone photography influencer on Instagram. I didn’t quite realise what great pics I could take with my phone. I just have a basic iPhone 13 but the camera is still great. I am still playing around with...
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His experience-led hotels blend those beginnings as a walking tour guide, inspired by his grandmother’s love of storytelling, with an intent to highlight significant spaces and people within the cities where the hotels are located. “As far as I can remember, my grandma would tell all thes...
The movement is peaceful and festive and inspired by the youth movement in Senegal known as Y’en a marre (“We’re fed up”) which played a role in forcing President Abdoulaye Wade from office in 2012. The fall of Sankara As many know, the name ‘Burkina Faso’ translates as “Land ...
Similarly, Coates is inspired by the existence of his son, and views fatherhood and family life as a metaphorically sacred state of being: “There was before you, and then there was after, and in this after, you were the God I’d never had.” Throughout the book, Coates points to mom...
An elite female fighter must reenter the competition to protect her found family of younger sisters in this scintillating young adult fantasy inspired by West African culture, perfect for fans of The Gilded Ones and Creed. This is the life of the girls who compete in the Isle’s elite, all...
Afriyie just wanted to get some kelewele to munch while she enjoyed a movie in her room but is disappointed when she doesn’t get the exact kind she loves. Her disappointment turns into a pleasant impromptu ‘date’ with the guy who offers to share the last bit of kelewele he bought....
The team’s first foray into the sport was in 1988 and that journey inspired the popular movie, “Cool Runnings.” “This won’t be our last Olympics, and there won’t be a next 24 years span for us to qualify again,” Nimroy Turgott, the team’s bobsled brakeman told the PBS New...
I just love this picture from Steyn Fourie of a MOTH Shellhole in its heyday, it just smacks of a time gone past, when everything in the ‘white culture’ in South Africa was so much more balanced and revered – the old Hertzog inspired OBB in its correct senior position (left) makin...
In fact, for all I know, he may have inspired the very school my parents and our neighbors built that was burned to the ground by local whites. Working with Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute until his death, Julius Rosenwald helped black communities build over 5000 schools. He ...