Tag Archives: Afro style

Afrobeat, Kings and Beyoncé

I don’t think I had ever heard of a visual album until Beyoncé. “Black is King” launched on Disney + with the usual pomp and circumstance that surrounds “queen B”, I took a particular interest in this offering because of how much it is steeped in African culture (popular and historical). I tend to beContinue reading “Afrobeat, Kings and Beyoncé”

Assimilation X Appropriation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/4fq4hrgxvn/wax-print Interesting article on the BBC last month, I won’t bore you with the details but in a nut shell the story goes: the popular bright African fabric everyone knows has its origins in Indonesia where wax dying created colorful Batik fabric, this was traded by the large colonial companies, the technology was taken toContinue reading “Assimilation X Appropriation”