Dr. Dambisia Moyo

I first came across Dambisa Moyo a few weeks ago in one of our weekly discussions. I found what she had to say in her TED talks very interesting. I decided to look up some information on her.
Dambisa was born in Zambia in 1969 and raised there. She attended Oxford University and achieved a PhD in economics. She went on to earn her Masters degree from Harvard University. At American University in Washington, D.C she also completed an undergraduate degree in chemistry and an MBA in finance. She has worked for World Bank as a Consultant and at Goldman Sachs as an economist. She is also a contributing editor to CNBC.

Dambisa is also an author. Her work includes Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa and How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead.

Dambisa has been named by TIME Magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.”

You can find more about Dambisa at the site.

African Pop culture

I did a Google search looking for African Pop culture. I came across this website akwaaba music. You can listen to streaming music. There are free music downloads. It also has new release tracks. It reminds me a lot of iTunes.

Akwaaba is a webssite that is dedicated to spreading African music and pop culture. This site was created by Benjamin Lebrave. He is a DJ that wanted to explore more music trends within Africa. Benjamin was born and raised in Paris, France. He graduated from ENSAE (Paris Tech), with a double master’s degree in economics and statistics. He decided instead of further his education with a PhD in the US, he chose to follow his passion: music. Benjamin now runs Akwaaba from Accra, Ghana. It was started because Benjaminfound it way too difficult to access a whole lot of music from Africa. So he travels around places in Africa and helps promote artists. He markets them on his website and helps them book shows.

 

Here is a photo of Benjamin.

 

African Fashion Week: Nigeria

African Fashion Week: Nigeria

I was attempting to find some information on fashion in Africa and came across this site. They have a fashion week in Nigeria. The goal is to help emerging Nigerian fashion designers get global recognition. It obviously isn't very easy to get recognition, but when major shows like this are put on people from all over the world come to see the designs.

The 2014 fashion week had over 40 designers.


De Laurels fashions were at the show:

Here is a photo of a fashion from DZYN:

 

Here is a link to the African Fashion week website.