CNN reports: “Grammy Award-winning musician Wyclef Jean has created a group to help feed the hungry in Haiti.” [ Together For Haiti ]

via: link Cape Town architects MMA have started work on a pilot project of ten affordable houses built using a sand-bag construction system. The house is the first of 100 experimental, low-cost homes for former shack dwellers that will be built at Freedom Park on the outskirts of Cape Town. The houses each have a […]

via: observer – via: uk times Puma CEO and ‘golden boy of global branding’ Jochen Zeitz, is interviewed in the London Times today. And he made Puma cool with a series of gambles, such as pouring money into Jamaican reggae. “We are a sports brand but we want to be something else, too. Jamaica is […]

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Liam inspired this, i got it off of this The raw materials used in the production of cloth in Africa include bast fibres, wool, cotton, silk, raffia, and the bark of certain trees. The weaving of bast fibres, produced by allowing the stalks of plants such as jute or flax to decompose in water for […]

THE DOG’S MASTER via: Pieter Hugo These photographs came about after a friend emailed me an image taken on a cellphone through a car window in Lagos, Nigeria, which depicted a group of men walking down the street with a hyena in chains. A few days later I saw the image reproduced in a South […]

Jimmy Moxon, Alias Nana Kofi Obonya, originally uploaded by son.delorian. Jimmy Moxon is one of the few white chiefs in Africa recognized by a government. On September 13, 1963, Ghana’s official newspaper announced the investiture of Nana Kofi Obonya (literally, “the chief born on Friday, who lives at the bottom of the cliff”). Jimmy Moxon […]

NYIMI KOK MABIINTSH III, originally uploaded by son.delorian.  

via: ttsmag  In a world filled with market saturation, world issues and economic problems there isn’t as much being done as it should be, or as it needs to be. But there are some who try no matter if its a whole new ball game to them, they’re the ones who can recognize what issues […]

  via: tamarin In 1983, while passing through Ouagadougou( capital of Burkina Faso), a friend came one morning to anounce the death of Moro Naba, the emperor of the Mossi. Anyone who knows Bukina Faso, knows that the Moro Naba is an undeniable element of the society. In his palace, located in the center of […]