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Sun, 19 May 2013 06:03:04 -0400

vintageblackglamour: Sidney Poitier in a scene from “For Love...

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:39:18 -0400

Sidney Poitier in a scene from “For Love of Ivy” in 1968. Mr. Poitier, the author three memoirs, released his first novel, “Montaro Caine,” early this month. Photo: Bob Adelman/Corbis.

We met a couple of months ago at The Nest (can't remember which movie was showing) and I was wondering where I knew you from. And now I've realized, right here on Tumblr. Ed!

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:53:53 -0400

It must have been Argo. Will hunt you out at the next showing there…when are you back again? Why did you not say hello? Will bring you a snack too!

"She was as simple and delicious as a hard boiled egg: a complete meal in itself."

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:51:10 -0400

“She was as simple and delicious as a hard boiled egg: a complete meal in itself.”

- Jonathan Carroll (via browndresswithwhitedots)

mielamiela: Bibi Yangu by Bamboo Samples Mamou by Franco. THIS...

Sat, 11 May 2013 09:32:42 -0400

mielamiela:

Bibi Yangu by Bamboo

Samples Mamou by Franco.

THIS IS AWESOME!

blackfashion: turbbbz Thola, 21, Durban, South...

Sat, 11 May 2013 09:27:27 -0400

blackfashion:

turbbbz

Thola, 21, Durban, South Africa

outfit : second hand thrift

dynamicafrica: lickypickystickyme: If grandmothers around the...

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:28:22 -0400

dynamicafrica:

lickypickystickyme:

If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

He acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom:

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke (herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).

Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.

Just here for the grandma’s and their delicious meals.

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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:41:38 -0400

samflow: A New Voice with Old Soul: Singer Luke James covers...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:39:55 -0400

samflow:

A New Voice with Old Soul: Singer Luke James covers Prince Magazine

karnyay: braydaaan: wat for a second i thought this was...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 01:03:58 -0400

karnyay:

braydaaan:

wat

for a second i thought this was normal

Strawberry kiwi? Wowzer!

nattyrootlivin: soulbrotherv2: African brilliance from...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 03:56:52 -0400

nattyrootlivin:

soulbrotherv2:

African brilliance from Cameroon.

24-year-old Arthur Zang, a Cameroonian engineer, invented the Cardiopad. The Cardiopad is a portable, touch screen device that enables heart examinations such as the electrocardiogram to be performed at remote locations while results of the test, are transferred wirelessly to specialists who can interpret them.

Arthur Zang also became a finalist in the 2012 CPS Distinguished Award for the Sciences.

Image and commentary via African Heritage City.

But you’ll never hear about him on CNN, MSNBC or FOX.

bryanyusuf: Oh My Cheese! Cheese, cheese and more cheese....

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:11:16 -0400

bryanyusuf:

Oh My Cheese! Cheese, cheese and more cheese. #Cheese (at Brown’s Cheese Farm and Factory)

bryanyusuf: Table set ready for cheese tasting. #Cheese (at...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:10:47 -0400

bryanyusuf:

Table set ready for cheese tasting. #Cheese (at Brown’s Cheese Farm and Factory)

bryanyusuf: Ever smiling @thatakinyi. Beautiful as ever and...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:08:06 -0400

bryanyusuf:

Ever smiling @thatakinyi. Beautiful as ever and good company as usual. #Cheese. (at Brown’s Cheese Farm and Factory)

b-sama: ‘The world upside down’: The rise of Spanish...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:49:15 -0400

b-sama:

‘The world upside down’: The rise of Spanish immigration to Morocco

The number of Spaniards living in Morocco has quadrupled over the last decade as Spain’s flailing economy unexpectedly prompts its citizens to look south for new opportunities.For generations, Moroccans have immigrated to Europe for work but now, in a surprising illustration of Europe’s economic crisis, that trend is reversing –Europeans are coming to Morocco in search of jobs.

It’s “the world upside down,” writes Hein de Haas, co-director of the International Migration Institute, affiliated with Oxford University.

rainydaysandblankets: elorablue: Croissants with Cheese and...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:19:29 -0400

rainydaysandblankets:

elorablue:

Croissants with Cheese and Mushrooms by Lee Parish on Flickr.

stop it..

cinekenya: Guillaume Bonn: Silent Lives Guillame Boon has...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 06:32:50 -0400

Kavina (left) is a fifty-year-old grandmother who works as a maid. She is a refugee from Uganda; her family was killed during the Amin regime. Florence, is forty-seven.Her husband works in a hotel.

Phyllis, twenty-three, works as a maid for a family that lives on the shores of Lake Naivasha. She commutes every day to a vast estate from the nearby shanty town.

“Preparing Picnic” by Guillaume Bonn

A maid cleans an old colonial house on a farm an hour’s drive from Nakuru, a Rift Valley market town.

“Sunday by the Pool” by Guillaume Bonn

A nanny by the pool of the Muthaiga Club, situated in a residential area of Nairobi, while her young charge relaxes on a sun bed.

cinekenya:

Guillaume Bonn: Silent Lives

Guillame Boon has produced a remarkable series of photos about the lives of domestic workers titled Silent Lives for which he was nominated for the Piclet Prize in 2012.

Jon Lee Anderson of The New Yorker writes, ” Kenya, in other words, is no longer the place of Karen Blixen’s nostalgically remembered, illusory Eden, where everyone except the whites knew their place….and yet, as Bonn reveals, some of the old social heriarchies persist in some of the country’s most privileged households”.

Read more.

inua: The Wilhelm Scream (James Blake Cover) | Kwabs (Kwabena...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:49:42 -0400

inua:

The Wilhelm Scream (James Blake Cover) | Kwabs (Kwabena Adjepong)

Sing it!! His voice has the personality of a friend who’s been through alot but hasn’t succumbed to cynicism, and turned instead into a guru. I could listen all day.

Post-MDGs: It's Time to Listen to the People | Think Africa Press

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:37:17 -0400

Post-MDGs: It's Time to Listen to the People | Think Africa Press:

prepaidafrica:

Not surprisingly and despite its good intentions, the MDGs are today associated with underperformance.

The reality is that no matter how well-meaning or how infused with “expert” knowledge they are, development strategies which do not focus on empowering citizens to utilise innovative and indigenous approaches to solve their particular problems, will be peripheral at best.

As 2015 approaches then, there is an urgent need for a radically different mindset to understanding and tackling regional challenges.

At a meeting organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to discuss the post-2015 development agenda for Africa, Aliounne Sall of the African Future Institute rightly highlighted the need for a paradigm shift.

He called on Africans to “think differently, to talk differently and to act differently”.

Africa’s greatest challenge is developing based on indigenous knowledge and indigenous resources.

The urgent need is for African-led creative solutions and breakthroughs in governance, science and technology, economic policies, health, and many other areas, covered or not by the MDGs.

thecakebar: Eggless, No Bake, BUTTERLESS Chocolate Oreo...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:23:30 -0400

thecakebar:

Eggless, No Bake, BUTTERLESS Chocolate Oreo Cheesecake