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March
2012Famous Fabulafricanas In Those Jeans!
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March
2012Happy Blessed Friday March 9th 2012!
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In the name of Allah Subahan’Allah, Ok real talk, for a while I felt like I wasn’t moving forward , didn’t feel like writing,didn’t feel like doing much..I fellt as if I was losing myself, my faith in Allah, my will to take one step forward. One day the pain got to its extreme, I just didn’t know what to do anymore but to run to our father ..Allah and that’s what I did! I went to the mosk and felt a sense of peace , spoke with the Imam of my neighberhood mosk , started reading and reading some more until my soul said OK Yaye thanks for feeding me…starting a spiritual Muslimah journal! My close friends and the him in my life helped me tremendously..seriously I had hit rockbottom there were no other choices but to run back to Allah, don’t know if any of y’all had similar …
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In the name of Allah! What I really would like to point out on this post is mainly the growth of songwriter Rokia Traore.I feel that she’s not recognized enough for her contribution to African art.When I was college I used to listen to her regularly, her voice always brough me back at home, back to my tradional roots with that promise of seeing my land soon !In this project, Rokia was picked by Toni Morrison and theater director to write and play the music during the Desdemona theater tour.Mrs Morisson said that she didn’t necessarly understand what Rokia said in bambara but she felt her and connected to her. I watched a very interesting interview with Peter Sellars, Toni Morrison and Rokia Traore on the making and meaning of the play, and I was so impressed with the eloquence of our Malian sister. At some point in the conversation …
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In the name of Allah Aight so we represented at the Victoires de la Musique France 2012! Inna Modja the Malian/French singer was nominated for best female revelation artist 2012, unfortunately she didn’t win but she got to perform at the Award. Imany representing the Comores Island was also nominated, she didn’t go home with the award but during a tv interview she expressed how happy she was to be invited to perform at the event! I saw her live couple years ago in my hometown and she was great ,que du chemin sis, BRAVO! The Belgian/Rwandan artist Stromae came to party as well , performed as well was nominated for best tour 2012,but didnt’ win unfortunatelyBoth Booba and La Fouine were nominated for best hip hop album,Corneille and Amel Bent paid a beautiful hommage to Michel Berger!In all was nice to see our African artists in France doing their …
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In the Name of Allah… Ahhhh what a breath of fresh air, the Art season has officially started and I’m telling you it’s about timeeeeee! As you probably know my country is in the midst of elections we don’t know how it will end but it’s been heavyyy (will write a post on that subject) Peope have been afraid to go out at night and frankly we didn’t have the heart to it but thank God for painters EL Sy and Sarane who hosted on March 2nd a beautiful and so “dove -peaceful event” if I may say at the Galerie Nationale d’Art of Senegal…and i’m telling you it was more than I expected. I wasn’t familiar with both artists work so it was cool to discover their labour. What’s funny is that I bumped into my friend Akya Sy from www.wakh-art.blogspot.com ,a young hip & artsy wonderful active blogger …
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January
2012Happy New Year 2012 Fabulafricana Family!
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Cheers to new life surprises, to new goals, to new friendships, new career moves, reklinding family relationships, to beautiful love stories or being able to handle the ups and downs of relationships, to facing life hurdles, to standing tall and strong in front of difficult choices, to staying healthy, to loving& bettering ourselves.I learned a lot about friendships in 2011, learned to keep things to myself and believe in myself a little bit more..not saying that I’m totally there but the bean is growing..This year I want to live consciously, as in not letting life go by and I look back months from now and I wonder where did life go … I lost two important people in my life this past year a cousin that blessed us all with his kind & generous spirit and a soul brotha with whom I shared so much…We used to share the same …
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November
2011Dakar Fashion Week/Summer 2011!
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This past summer I went to the annual & very anticipated fashion week organized by the very dynamic Adama Paris.We gotta give credit when it’s due, this sista works hard and admist the chaos she always manages to pull out exciting fashion event.I particularly enjoyed this one, the diversity of styles was a plus My girl Mariam Diop was of course my favorite. She creates the funkiest looks with the softest Mauritanian fabrics.I could hear women around me appreciating her use of vibrant colors and her modern twist on African fabrics .She grew up in France where she studied fashion and now lives in Dakar.more to come about her in the near future on this site. Meriem Boussikouk took us on a beautiful trip to North African with her colorful caftans. I enjoyed the work of Mathilde Badji.This senegalese designer has worked for Martin Margiela (nice references). She’s also created …
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November
2011Watch out for Theater & Movie Actress Naidra Ayadi!
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There is so much buzz around the 3rd feature film by director/actress Maiwenn. The movie called “Polisse” was awarded the Jury Prize at the Cannes Festival, May 2011. Maiween is at this time one of the most important French movie director of this generation. Anytime she calls, noted French actresses like Karen Viard, says yes without hesitation. What actors appreciate about working with her is that there is room for improvisation work yet everything remains structured. The two biggest revelations in this project are hip hop pioneer Joey Star in the lead male role & newcomer Naidra Ayadi. Naidra comes from theater she studied at the National French Conservatory of Versailles. She’s acted on tv (Avocats & Associes-2007), on theater stages (Meurtres de la Princesse Juive -2007,) and in the big screen. This is her second time walking the famous steps at the Cannes Festival .Back in 2005 she presented …
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November
2011Safari trip at the Reserve of Bandia, Senegal
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Friends have been sharing tales of Senegalese wildlife 65 kilometers away from the urban capital of the Republic of Senegal Dakar where I currently reside. This past weekend I made my way to this huge wildlife reserve worthy of safari books. My friend Yacedia & I thought we were really getting into the jungle so we stopped by our friend Eric Kayzer and indulged in what I call the “weekend gourmand morning syndrome”; for those of you who don’t suffer from it, it appetizingly consists of croissants au beurre, pains au chocolat or pains au raisin…vive le weekend! She is the first female guide to join the Bandia reserve team back in 2000, since then 3 other women now work there full time. She studied tourism and found her first job at the Bandia reserve, jobs being scarce in Senegal; she stayed at the B.R …..Lucky them!! Discovering the reserve in …
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