What would you call a person who makes a living teaching women 50 different ways to wrap their heads? A headwrap artiste? Or savvy entrepreneur? This...
South African lingerie entrepreneur Penny Parolis was 61 when she was dealt one of life’s greatest ironies. In the lingerie industry for over 20 years, she...
That Africa is the new mecca of international luxury brands is constantly reiterated by the number of new players in the market. The development of home-grown...
In the heart of Accra lies East Legon, a cosmopolitan suburb with some of the most prestigious real estate in Ghana. One such Victorian style house,...
Watching Allegro Dinkwanyane irrevocably hooked to the internet, one would be encouraged to say that the world of the millennial, really, is the World Wide Web....
The words “the medium is the message” coined by Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan seem apt for Nigerian designer Mai Atafo. He truly is the best...
Every time a woman earns R89 ($6), a man earns R100 ($7). That’s right. Seventy years since women joined the workforce en masse, these inequalities are...
It was a hot spring day in the suburb of Westdene with its neat tiny gardens and white-washed fences, in Johannesburg on September 10, 2014. The...
They are regarded the dregs of society, the shunned shadows of the night. They are sex workers, and South Africa is home to an estimated 153,000...
In October 2015, Oscar Pistorius, the South African double amputee Olympian runner sentenced to five years’ jail for the culpable homicide of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp...