Amy Winehouse after hearing she has just won her first Grammy (2008)
I miss Amy.
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thefemaletyrant:
There are schools in Nigeria that teach US history…as in only US history, no mention of Nigerian history or West African history.
Just US history.
You know, @thefemaletyrant, I’ve been thinking a lot about the education I received and the flaws thereof. I started school at a Catholic school in Soweto but I remember little of what I was taught cos it was grade 1. Then, I moved to what was known at the time as a white school in the burbs. I spent a considerable amount of time learning about Jan van Riebeek et al. But it was pre ‘94 so…ja. In high school, I learnt a little bit more about Southern African history and South African liberation history - because you know, we have no history pre colonisation and “discovery”. And I learnt A LOT of European history. There has to be a change in tides on the continent.
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Why aren’t more people freaking out about the new Venezuelan labor law?
bluandorange:
monetizeyourcat:
dancepunksnotdead:
You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?
It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift
holy shit!
fucking COOL
I was just explaining to someone yesterday how Motherhood and being a stay at home mom is actually a job! Pretty progressive!
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OkayAfrica with Converse Rubber Tracks presents Kenyan futuristic-pop group Just A Band x ATL’s shape-shifting rapper Go Dreamer
IMG01420 by Arno Meintjes Wildlife on Flickr.
Lion Fatherly Love
this is a picture of a sash sar (to place the sash). it’s a ceremony held 7 days after a woman is married and is unique to the southern region of Somalia. I love the idea behind this more than I like the actual wedding. why? because the point of the wedding ceremony islamically is to make the wedding public to the general community. the point of the sash saar (a cultural practice) is for the new bride to honour the women who’ve helped her grow from a girl to a woman and to celebrate this milestone with them.
you see the phrase sash saar literally translates to placing the sash (the sash being a small square material that can be seen being placed on the womans head). Somali women don’t wear the sash unless they’re married so you wouldn’t own any so on the 7th day after you get married you get together with a bunch of women who’ve been a part of your life who bring a truckload of them. they take turns placing them on your head and it’s kind of symbolic of being recognized as a woman by them.
now here’s my favourite part! the first woman to place the sash is chosen by the bride, (there are a few culturaly accepted requirements). but the woman she chooses is one who she highly respects. By choosing a woman to place the first sash she tells that woman I want to be the kind of wife you are, I want to be the kind of woman you are.
the wedding (at least every Somali wedding i’ve been to) is just a party. the actual marriage contract is signed during an earlier ceremony called a nikkah so the wedding is basically an after party where people celebrate the wedding. So yeah I like the sash sar better than the wedding
Beautiful!
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Shingai Shoniwa (The Noisettes) for L’Oreal Mizani haircare campaign.
…afro daydreams again.
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This little company from Kenya makes toys from slippers that wash up on the beach. Pictures by Ben Curtis
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I took this picture after my workout using a self-timer camera app. It’s crazy that I’m actually able to bend this far… When I first started yoga, I could barely even touch my toes!!! Progress is fun.
(viaCan’t wait to be this flexible!
same! ^
Flexiness is sexiness!
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